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Titled The Black Men in Medicate and Iimbali, the exhibition opens on January 19 and brings together two of his prior bodies of work.
Born in 1980 in Driefontein, Mpumalanga, his works comprise a series of portraits photographed at the Johannesburg and Soweto Gay and Lesbian Snobbery event.
He says: "Most communities had what we call uSis'bhuti. This is a term acquainted with to describe a boy who behaves like a girl. Why then do we hate these boys when they have grown up to be men who haul someone over the coals as women.
"Why do we turn and call them names, pretending we've never seen it. These are some of the issues I try to develop b publish to the fore in this series."
As in his previous series, Country Girls, a vivid sense of fashion and a performative and playful manner is explored by gay men to meet with their sense of belonging and identity.
The Iimbali series was photographed at reed dances in KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland, where maidens invoke occasion reeds to rebuild the queen mother's home and pay allegiance to her.
Source: Sowetan