Mozambique’s transgender history is on display in a powerful photo exhibition

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08/02/2024

A pioneering queer photo exhibition that was staged 20 years ago in Mozambique and South Africa has found new life and a new audience. Manas 2000-2024, by the Danish photographer Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, opened at the French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, in the capital Maputo, on 8 July. The show kicked off Ulayo Fest, Mozambique’s annual LGBTIQ+ pride week. Held in July since 2021, this cultural event celebrates the power of the arts to bring about and reflect social change. Many of the photographs on Manas 2000-2024 have been seen by the public before. Firstly, at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where they featured in an academic conference on sexuality in 2003. Then at Johnsen’s solo exhibition, Manas, held that same year at the Mozambican Association of Photography in Maputo.

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