Resumen
While the form of visual activism currently being developed in the United
States and Western Europe is more commonly linked to street protests or
activist campaigning and is often explicitly anti-capitalist, in South Africa
visual activism has a different epistemological history and contemporary
form. In the South African context, much visual activism is closely linked
to the fine art market and its associated institutions. This is exemplified
by the queer black South African photographer Zanele Muholi. Going
beyond the body of work available on Muholi, however, this chapter
uses the works of other South African artists, namely FAKA and Robert
Hamblin, a fine art photographer, to explore visual activism and the way
in which it complicates/broadens conventional conceptions of activism.