{"product_id":"9781597114240","title":"Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama : Hail the Dark Lioness by Zanele Muholi","description":"Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness  includes one hundred  self-portraits created by one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. In  each of the images, Muholi drafts material props from her immediate environment  in an effort to reflect her journey, explore her own image and possibilities as a black  woman in today's global society, and - most important - to speak emphatically in  response to contemporary and historical rascisms. As she states, \"I am producing this  photographic document to encourage people to be brave enough to occupy spaces,  brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our  history, to re-think what history is all about, to re-claim it for ourselves, to encourage  people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.\"  More than twenty curators, poets, and authors offer written contributions that  draw out the layers of meaning and possible readings to accompany select images.  Powerfully arresting, this collection is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an  autobiographical, artistic statement.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304988389749,"sku":"9781597114240","price":70.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781597114240.jpg?v=1762796651","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781597114240","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}