Recently Muholi's work has shifted from her usual focus and ventured into exploring lived realities of the black gay, transsexual and intersex people living around Johannesburg's inner city and townships.
In the past three years or so, Zanele Muholi's photographs have been generating excitement as much as they have been unsettling audiences in South Africa and elsewhere around the world. It seems important that we as South Africans, and indeed all Africans, should ask ourselves if we are ready for Muholi's voice and what she is beckoning us towards.