Zanele Muholi’s Self-Portraits as Visual Weapons

In anticipation of the 2022 exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris, French publisher Éditions delpire & co has gathered 96 self-portraits by Zanele Muholi under a book titled Somnyama Ngonyama – Hail the Dark Lioness, in which the South African who defines herself as a visual activist exposes stereotypes of the representation of Black culture.