Zanele muholi biography graphic organizer
Drawing from Zanele Muholi's () conceptual distinction between “visual art” and “visual activism”, I advance the idea that continuing to....
Muholi is a visual activist, humanitarian and photographer from Umlazi, Durban.
Zanele Muholi's Women's Mobile Museum began with a challenge to the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
They currently live and work between Durban and Cape Town.
Muholi is invested in educational activism, community outreach and youth development. In 2009 they founded Inkanyiso (www.inkanyiso.org), a forum for queer and visual (activist) media and in 2002 co-founded the Forum for Empowerment of Women (FEW).
They facilitate access to art spaces for youth practitioners through projects such as Ikhono LaseNatali and continue to provide photography workshops for young women and in the townships through PhotoXP.
Muholi studied Advanced Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg, and in 2009 completed an MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University, Toronto.
In 2013, they became an Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts/Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
Awards and accolades received include ICP Spotlights (2022); Spectrum International Prize for Photography (2020); Lu