Mthethwa’s body of work includes portraits of black workers—sugar-cane cutters, brick workers and coal miners—photographed in the landscape of their labor. In 2005, ...

“Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views,” at the Studio Museum in Harlem, provides a refreshingly intimate look at South African life one you’re not likely to have gleaned from the World Cup crowds ...

From “Interiors,” 1995- 2005. “I would shuttle back and forth to the settlements to make certain that these people got a print of their image—usually 6 by 9 or 8 by 10 inches,” Mthethwa ...

Mthethwa’s deliberate use of color is one way for him to distinguish the representation of black Africans, but, at the same time, his use of color incorporates a host of aesthetic concerns.