Zanele Muholi

Loba V, Paris

2019

Silver gelatin print

Image and paper size approx: 50 x 37.5cm

Edition of 8 + 2AP.

Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery.

Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery.

"Somnyama Ngonyama (meaning ‘Hail, the Dark Lioness’) is an unflinchingly personal approach I have taken as a visual activist to confronting the politics of race and pigment in the photographic archive. It is a statement of self-presentation through portraiture."