Rendering 4

The headline of the article is “South African photographer wins award for portraits of black lesbians”.

The article is from а newspaper under the nameplate the Guardian.

The publication date of the article is March, 21.

The article is written by Mark Brown, arts correspondent.

The article is devoted to Zanele Muholi’awards for her courage and the powerful statements made by her work. The purpose of the author is to give the reader some information on the fact that it doesn’t matter at all what you are painting, for us it’s important to understand the feelings of the painter and read his thoughts.

The author starts by telling the reader that South African photographer Zanele Muholi has spent the last 10 years determinedly creating a visual archive of black lesbian life in South Africa, often in the face of considerable opposition. Then the author describes the mood of people when they have known about Zanele’s award. According to the words of Zalene, it's necessary to mention about the fact that  South Africa was country of huge contrasts for gay people: on the one hand it has been enormously progressive and in 1996 became the first country in the world to constitutionally prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation; on the other, there is a culture of fear if you are gay and serious hate crime is a huge problem, including "corrective" rape to "straighten out" lesbians. In the last year, four women have been murdered because of their sexuality, including Phumeza Nkolonzi, 22, who was shot dead in front of her grandmother and niece, and Sihle Sikoji, aged 19 when she was stabbed to death. So, in conclusion, Zanele has shown tremendous bravery in the face of criticism and harassment for ground-breaking images which include intimate portraits of gay women in South Africa, where homosexuality is still taboo and lesbians are the target of horrific hate crimes. She has won the award both for her courage and the powerful statements made by her work.

I found this article interesting and exiting at the same time as personally, I am against gay men and gay women, and especially, I’m against to show these relations in the art, cinema and so on and so forth. To my mind, it destroys our minds, our children’s minds and can lead to something awful! I can’t say anything more about this.