Inkanyiso brings together three new bodies of photographic work: new portraits in the ongoing series Faces and Phases (2010-11); Beulahs (2007-10) and Transfigures (2010-11), and the documentary Difficult Love (2010). As always, Muholi is upfront about her agenda as an activist, seeking to educate the viewer on 'the complexities and fluidity of gender'. The title of the show, Inkanyiso, means 'illumination' or 'light' in Zulu, and it is Muholi's aim to 'shine a light onto viewers' understanding of gender and sexuality&#...

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STEVENSON is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sabelo Mlangeni. Ghost Towns brings together two bodies of work: Mlangeni's recent photographs of small towns and his At Home series which will be shown in Cape Town for the first time.

At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty; the landscape assumes unreal contours, and light and dust make everything look as if suspended in time. These pla...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Pieter Hugo.

For the past year Hugo has been photographing the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom and Gomorrah, a vivid acknowledgment of the profound inhumanity of the place. When Hugo asked the inhabitants what they called the pit where the burning takes place, they repeatedly responded: 'For this place, we have no name'.

Their response is a reminder of the alien circumst...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to exhibit David Goldblatt's essay, In Boksburg, taken in 1979-1980 on the East Rand of the Witwatersrand. Goldblatt's book was published in 1982 but this will be the first time that the full series has been shown in the 30 years since the photographs were taken.

The spread of Boksburg's new suburbs across the veld and the daily life of the town encapsulated - to Goldblatt's eye - the intricacies of the lunacy of ordinary white middle-class life in the years of apartheid. As he wrote in the foreword: 'Boksburg is shaped by white dreams and white proprieties. Most of its townspeople pursue the fam...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Pieter Hugo.

In the Nollywood series, Hugo explores the multilayered reality of the Nigerian film industry. Photographs from the series were included on the exhibition Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention at Michael Stevenson in May 2008. Hugo has subsequently returned to Nigeria to extend and deepen this body of work, and the series will be published in book form by Prestel in October 2009.

Nollywood is the third largest film industry in the world, releasing between 500 and 1 000 movies each year. It produces movie...

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