Invisible Woman I, from the series "Invisible Women"
Sabelo Mlangeni
2006
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.3 × 35 cm (9 3/16 × 13 13/16 in.); Paper: 26.1 × 37.8 cm (10 5/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- portrait
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
photographic techniquesportraits: African subjectphotographic materials21st Centurywomanphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographyportraitafricanphotographic printphotographphotographic imagescontemporaryphotographic processphotographic paperportraitsstreet
About
When Sabelo Mlangeni first moved to Johannesburg in 2001, he noted the contrast between the cleanliness of the streets in the morning and their litter-strewn condition at day’s end. His resulting series, Invisible Women, dives into the lives of the street sweepers, mostly women, who clean the streets each night in one of the world’s most dangerous cities. From February to September 2006, Mlangeni documented these workers, highlighting the challenging nature of their task and their immersion in it.
