South African, b. 1980; lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa
Sabelo Mlangeni, a graduate of the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, is best known for his series Country Girls, which presents an intimate portrait of queer life within the rural areas of Mpumalanga province. Highlighting scenes of exuberance and glamour alongside those of strife and grit, his black and white images portray the community from within, and deliberately valorizes the perspectives of the individuals who identity with this group. Interestingly, even engaging with subjects from communities with which he does not belong, Mlangeni retains this focused engagement, and the resulting images give an intimate rendering of the complex cultural identities found within contemporary South African society.
A black and a white king
A Lady in Black
A Space of Waiting
A Stream
After School
Amablomu, Joubert park
Arop House
At the taxi binding close to Bree taxi rank
Bigboy
Casa di Arbiter / Our City Our Pride
Coming to Johannesburg I, January 2011
Crossing, Between Eloff and Bree Street
Early Year School Games
Identity
Iduku
Ihiya
Iimbali
Innocentia aka Sakhile
Inside Wonderers Taxi Rank
Is'cebhe
Isithunzela, during School Holiday; Cultural Group from Mohlakeng outside High Court on Richard Street
Isolezwe
Itshalo
Leopard
Lets get down to some serious training
Lutheran Church
Lwazi Mtshali, "Bigboy"
Mabuto: A City through the New Bus Rapid System
Madlamini
Madlisa
Manthe and A Friend at the Fruit Cake Vintage
Men at work near Bree taxi rank
Migrants are real humans
Mkhuphula
Mrs Jacobs
Nhlanhla Rabede
On Small Street
Outside Bismilla house on President Street
Outside King Mswati's palace
Palisa
Palisa
Problematic photograph
Shaunny HiFive, No 20 Frere Road
The Jo'burg Dandies
The Street Hairstylists
Titonkhe Vilakati, Mafhutseni
Towards a city; Troyville Primary School
Woman and City
Xolani Ngayi, eStanela