#Sabelo Mlangeni

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Sabelo Mlangeni, Faith and Sakhi Moruping Thembisa Township, 2004

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Sabelo Mlangeni, Invisible Woman II, from the series "Invisible Women", 2006. Gelatin silver print.

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La promesse (The promise) écrit par Damon Galgut (2022) 😍

Sabelo Mlangeni Kgomostso and his three-day date - série "Country girl" 2008

[...] C'est Clarence, aussi, qui rassemble tout Anton une fois refroidi, le tamise à la recherche de débris métalliques, de plombages et de broches médicales avant de le passer au crémulateur qui le réduit en poudre. Il peut à présent le verser quasiment comme du liquide dans l'urne précommandée dûment numérotée et étiquetée afin d'éviter toute confusion, mais à ce stade, quelle importance, sans compter que les restes d'Anton sont tout sauf purs, ils contiennent un peu des derniers résidus de ceux qui l'ont devancé, en particulier son prédécesseur immédiat, un professeur agrégé de langues slaves, mort étouffé par une banane. [...]

[bspoquemagazine]

Das C/O wird 25! die Jahresvorschau für 2025

Mit über 250 Ausstellungen von mehr als 500 Künstler:innen, der Förderung von 250 Talenten sowie der Etablierung eines neuen Preisformats trägt C/O Berlin kontinuierlich neue Impulse in die Welt der Fotografie.

[cosmicanger]

Crossing, Between Eloff and Bree Street from the Big City series, Sabelo Mlangeni, 2008

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Sabelo Mlangeni, The coming of an angel, 2016

[jessicacarginmedia]

Artist Research 6 Sabelo Mlangeni

Sabelo Mlangeni is a South African photographer based in Johannesburg, he is a largely notarized photographer most well known for his black and white photos of South African communities and gatherings. According to Mlangeni, “I have been moving around Johannesburg and its closest suburbs as someone interested in story-telling about everyday life. In my early walks, I found myself in many spaces where the situation and the living conditions were impossible to look at and to photograph. Then I started wondering, what to frame? Soon another side of the hardships emerged, and I attempted to capture that hidden beauty, that ordinary peace.” 

Specializing in the documentary, Mlangeni creates visual essays that take a look into the overlooked elements of daily life. In a fast-paced society, he focuses on aspects of life that are typically unnoticed or forgotten, revealing aspects of South African social and political issues.

Mlangeni has been awarded several prizes including the Columbia University II&I fellowship and artist residency (Paris, 2022), Africa MediaWorks Photography Prize (London, 2018), POPCAP’16 Prize for Contemporary African Photography (2016), and the Tollman Award for Visual Arts (2009). He has also had residencies at A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town, 2018), Centre de Art Waza (Lubumbashi, 2017), Walther Collection (Neu-Ulm, 2017), Akademie der Künste (Vienna, 2014), Akademie der Künste (Berlin, 2013) and Centre for Contemporary Art (Lagos, 2010

Mlangeni’s work touched me in a different way, its been 9 years this week since I moved from South Africa to the U.S. and looking at his photography brought back memories of the vibrancy of my home country. Another aspect I noticed about Mlangeni’s work is I almost can’t tell when these photographs were taken but to me, it does not look as if it was done in the last 10 years. His work uses traditional photography styles to capture the modern day. I can learn from Mlangeni not to overcomplicate things and to keep an open mind when shooting as I might find beauty hidden in the ordinary. 

[jemie-nachi]

this really means so much🥹 this is a Nigerian queer safe house captured by Sabelo Mlangeni. As a queer Nigerian, I’ve always felt alone but seeing a community of other queer Nigerians it tugs at my heart strings.

I hope to create a safe house for abandoned and disowned Queer children one day.

[agelessphotography]

Crossing, Between Eloff and Bree Street from the Big City series, Sabelo Mlangeni, 2008

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chegando a joanesburgo, áfrica do sul, 2011, sabelo mlangeni

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[torrid-wind]

Mandla (Power!) from Piet Retief at Miss Ten Years of Democracy, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 2003 - photo by Sabelo Mlangeni, from his "Country Girls" series

From the photo-essay article "Photographers Who Have Captured LGBTQ Life in the African Diaspora"

(***Click image or title link to view in high resolution***)

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https://www.contemporaryand.com/person/sabelo-mlangeni/

[photoarchive]

Sabelo Mlangeni, Bigboy, 2009

[contemporaryafricanart]

Don’t miss the upcoming exhibition Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art by The Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm, Germany. The show runs from May 7 - November 19, 2017.