Artist and 2026 Hasselblad Award laureate Muholi joins Black feminist theorist Tina M. Campt to discuss photography as archive, activism, and witness. Drawing on Muholi’s ongoing portraits of Black LGBTQIA+ life and Campt’s recent writing on images, grief, and mourning, they consider photography as adjacency, action, and refusal.
Tina Campt – Zanele Muholi
In collaboration with Hasselblad and Artforum
About the speakers
Tina M. Campt is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, where she directs Atelier at the Lewis Center for the Arts. A Black feminist theorist specializing in visual culture and contemporary art, her research examines photography, archives and the African diaspora. She is the author of Listening to Images (2017) and A Black Gaze (2021). In 2024, she received the Photographic Studies Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute.
South African photographer and visual activist Muholi documents the lives of Black LGBTQ+ communities. Through the series “Faces and Phases” and “Somnyama Ngonyama”, their work explores representation, identity and Black queer visibility. Their photographs have been exhibited at Documenta 13 and the Venice Biennale, and are held in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern. Muholi is the 2026 recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Award.
Zanele Muholi, No-Nkululeko, Room 1201, Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 2026 – Courtesy of the artist & Southern Guild
Other visuals
- Portrait – Tina Crampt