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Sabelo Mlangeni

  • Skill Category: Photographers
  • Present Address: Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
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Biography

South African, b. 1980; lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sabelo Mlangeni, a graduate of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, is best known for his series Country Girls, which presents an intimate portrait of queer life within the rural areas of Mpumalanga province. Highlighting scenes of exuberance and glamour alongside those of strife and grit, his black and white images portray the community from within, and deliberately valorizes the perspectives of the individuals who identity with this group. Interestingly, even engaging with subjects from communities with which he does not belong, Mlangeni retains this focused engagement, and the resulting images give an intimate rendering of the complex cultural identities found within contemporary South African society.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

2012 Country Girls, Aceberg Projects, Chicago, USA. 2012 Black Men in Dress and Iimbali, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2015 No Problem, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa. 2016 Heartbreaker, artSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand. 2017 Kholwa: The Longing of Belonging, Museum of Archeology, Cambridge, UK. 2018 Invisible Women, Memorial Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola. 2018 Umlindelo wamaKholwa, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa. 2020 The Royal House of Allure, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa.

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