Zanele Muholi is a LGBTI activist artist working specifically in South Africa. Her work deals with the violence faced by the LGBTI community even though South Africa has legal gay marriage. She describes her work as creating a visual archive of the South African Gay community, the only archive before this was homicide reports after hate crimes claimed members of the community. Her work is Muholi's way of taking back their history and claiming it again. Her work portrays mostly lesbians of color, on their terms, not as a news headline. She has created several collections of work hi lighting, lesbians, lesbian couples, and transgender women in South Africa. She describes her subjects not as subjects but as participants, they actively work with her in the creation of her art.
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