Preview: Zanele Muholi in Season 9 of Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2018)

[ZANELE MUHOLI]
I photograph different LGBTI individuals,

risking my life,

challenging the myth that say
being gay, being trans, is un-African.

When I started "Faces and Phases"

I just wanted to produce a project
that will live beyond us.

As people reach different stages
in their lives,

they get to be documented

and they share for the LGBTI community.

It's a lifetime project.

The book is supposed to come out in volumes.

The next publication will be out next year,

which then marks another period in our lives.

I am a member of the community.

We hardly find images that speaks of
love and joys of LGBTI individuals.

So then it becomes the issue of ownership.

I told myself that I would do better
than any other outsider to project our lives.