Simon Njami

Zwelethu Mthethwa

This volume offers a concise introduction to the large-format color photography of Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960), South Africa's most prominent living photographer. Mthethwa's portraits of Cape Town citizens emphasize qualities of defiance, pride and endurance of hardship, with what the "New Yorker" described as "an energetic ambivalence between documentary photography and fine-art portraiture."

Okwui Enwezor

Isolde Brielmaier

Zwelethu Mthethwa's large scale portraits often portray rural immigrants on the margins of South African cities, revealing the efforts his subjects make to maintain their cultural identities through their choices in clothing, and the decoration of their dwellings and places of worship. Mthethwa also addresses the economic and political reality of present day South Africa.

Zwelethu Mthethwa

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