Explore popular quotes and sayings by a South African photographer Zanele Muholi.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Zanele Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human".
It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.