— publications
2024 Dunster, F. & Gordon, T. Photography - A Queer History. Ilex, UK.
2023 Bonsu, O. A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography. Tate publishing (published July 2023).
2022 Bonsu, O. African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century. Chronicle Books LLC / Tate, UK.
2022 Balogun, E. et al. Isivumelwano. Fw:Books, Amsterdam (published May 2022).
2022 Allen, S. Tate Photography Series: Sabelo Mlangeni. Tate Publishing (published May 2022).
2021 Underwood, J. L. & Okeke-Agulu, C et al. African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Phaidon Press, UK. Published 17 November 2021.
2019 Cane, J. Civilising Grass: The art of the lawn on the South African Highveld. NYU Press, US.
2018 Sabelo Mlangeni: Umlindelo wamaKholwa. Wits Art Museum, South Africa.
2011 Sabelo Mlangeni: At Home / Ghost Towns. Michael Stevenson, South Africa.
2010 Sabelo Mlangeni: Country Girls. Michael Stevenson, South Africa.
2009 Sabelo Mlangeni: Men Only. Michael Stevenson, South Africa.
— selected press
2024 Littlewood, C. Collective (un)doings. Photomonitor: [online] (published January 2024).
2024 Mendenhall-Dever, S. Q&A/ Visiting Artist Sabelo Mlangeni on photographing South African communities and identities. The Standford Daily [online] (published 09 January 2024).
2023 Tobin, K. Joy, tenderness and intimacy are celebrated by artists in London. Wallpaper [online] (published 23 December 2023).
2023 Bruno, G. How ‘Pictures of Us’ Channels the Universality of the Human Experience. ELEPHANT [online] (published 14 December 2023).
2023 Shinners, K. Common. e-flux [online] (published 22 June 2023).
2023 The meaning of work in the modern world: a photography special. Financial Times [online] (published 5 January 2023).
2022 Stretch to the limit! Images from the Tate collection – in pictures. The Guardian. [online] (published 18 May 2022)
2022 Nigeria: a royal house, persecuted LGBT refuge. Altus Intel. [online] (published 2 January 2022).
2021 Mavuso, T. & Mlangeni, S. Forgotten Spools: Looking Through the Archives of Cynthia Mavuso. Mail & Guardian. [online] (published 1 October 2021).
2021 Stevens, N. ‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny’. Mail and Guardian [online] (published 10 May 2021).
2021 Nkomo, V. History is happening: ‘The thing itself exists everywhere’ at blank projects. ArtThrob [online] (published 23 March 2021).
2020 Dinsdale. E. Sabelo Mlangeni’s moving photos of life inside a Nigerian queer safe house. Dazed [online] (published 29 September 2020).
2020 Moloi, N. Against erasure and forgetting: Sabelo Mlangeni and Igshaan Adams at blank projects. ArtThrob [online] (published 11 February 2020).
2020 Collison, C. Sabelo Mlangeni’s intimate portrayal of queer Nigeria. New Frame [online] (7 February 2020).
2018 Sabelo Mlangeni Exhibition on Zion Churches shows in Johannesburg. Afropolitian Explosive, South Africa [online] (published 8 December 2018).
2018 Confessional Documentary: Sabelo Mlangeni and Wolfgang Tillmans in Johannesburg. ArtThrob, South Africa [online] (published 26 October 2018).
2018 Seymour, T. Sabelo Mlangeni. Nataal, UK [online] (published 11 October 2018).
2018 Warner, M. Sabelo Mlangeni’s images of South Africa. British Journal of Photography, UK [online] (published 5 October 2018).
2018 Mcutha, N. Umlindelo wamaKholwa: Sabelo Mlangeni’s zionism photography. Between 10 and 5, South Africa [online] (published 26 July 2018).
2018 Stevens, N. The Believers: Sabelo Mlangeniʼs ‘Umlindelo wamaKholwaʼ. ArtThrob, South Africa [online] (published 17 July 2018).
2018 Lim, D. Quiet images of the Zionist Christian Church. City Press, South Africa [online] (published 8 July 2018).
2018 Anstey, G. Photographer Sabelo Mlangeni is immersed in his art. Sunday Times, South Africa [online] (published 10 June 2018).
2018 Edwards, C. New photography exhibition features South Africa’s flourishing Zionist churches. The South African, South Africa [online] (published 8 June 2018).
2018 Elizabeth, M. Sabelo Mlangeni // capturing the confidence and intimacy of LGBTQ communities in South Africa. Bubblegum Club, South Africa [online] (published 5 March 2018).
2017 Madondo, B. SABELO MLANGENI: BIG CITY. Aperture.
2017 Madondo, B. A South African Flâneur’s Ambivalent View of Johannesburg. The New Yorker, US [online] (published 4 June 2017).
2017 Keam, S. Sabelo Mlangeni: Documenting A New South Africa. The Culture Trip, UK [online] (published 11 January 2017).
2014 Corrigall, M. Beyond Trauma: Landscape, Memory, and Agency in Photographs by Cedric Nunn and Sabelo Mlangeni. Safundi. 15(2-3): 329–351.
2014 Ngcobo, G. Art in Context Africa, Part I: Sabelo Mlangeni’s No Problem, and a visit to the site of Michelle Monareng’s Removal to Radium. Art Review, UK (published October 2014).
2012 Bongela, M. Vanity, Pride and Prejudice. Mail & Guardian, South Africa [online] (published 10 February 2012).
2010 Jacobs, S. ‘Afropolis’. Africa is a Country, US [online] (published 13 November 2010).
2009 Jacobs, S. Photography: Sabelo Mlangeni. Africa is a Country, US [online] (published 11 September 2009).
2024 Dunster, F. & Gordon, T. Photography - A Queer History. Ilex, UK.
2023 Bonsu, O. A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography. Tate publishing (published July 2023).
2022 Bonsu, O. African Art Now: 50 Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-First Century. Chronicle Books LLC / Tate, UK.
2022 Balogun, E. et al. Isivumelwano. Fw:Books, Amsterdam (published May 2022).
2022 Allen, S. Tate Photography Series: Sabelo Mlangeni. Tate Publishing (published May 2022).
2021 Underwood, J. L. & Okeke-Agulu, C et al. African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Phaidon Press, UK. Published 17 November 2021.
2019 Cane, J. Civilising Grass: The art of the lawn on the South African Highveld. NYU Press, US.
2018 Sabelo Mlangeni: Umlindelo wamaKholwa. Wits Art Museum, South Africa.
2011 Sabelo Mlangeni: At Home / Ghost Towns. Michael Stevenson, South Africa.
2010 Sabelo Mlangeni: Country Girls. Michael Stevenson, South Africa.
2009 Sabelo Mlangeni: Men Only. Michael Stevenson, South Africa.
— selected press
2024 Littlewood, C. Collective (un)doings. Photomonitor: [online] (published January 2024).
2024 Mendenhall-Dever, S. Q&A/ Visiting Artist Sabelo Mlangeni on photographing South African communities and identities. The Standford Daily [online] (published 09 January 2024).
2023 Tobin, K. Joy, tenderness and intimacy are celebrated by artists in London. Wallpaper [online] (published 23 December 2023).
2023 Bruno, G. How ‘Pictures of Us’ Channels the Universality of the Human Experience. ELEPHANT [online] (published 14 December 2023).
2023 Shinners, K. Common. e-flux [online] (published 22 June 2023).
2023 The meaning of work in the modern world: a photography special. Financial Times [online] (published 5 January 2023).
2022 Stretch to the limit! Images from the Tate collection – in pictures. The Guardian. [online] (published 18 May 2022)
2022 Nigeria: a royal house, persecuted LGBT refuge. Altus Intel. [online] (published 2 January 2022).
2021 Mavuso, T. & Mlangeni, S. Forgotten Spools: Looking Through the Archives of Cynthia Mavuso. Mail & Guardian. [online] (published 1 October 2021).
2021 Stevens, N. ‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny’. Mail and Guardian [online] (published 10 May 2021).
2021 Nkomo, V. History is happening: ‘The thing itself exists everywhere’ at blank projects. ArtThrob [online] (published 23 March 2021).
2020 Dinsdale. E. Sabelo Mlangeni’s moving photos of life inside a Nigerian queer safe house. Dazed [online] (published 29 September 2020).
2020 Moloi, N. Against erasure and forgetting: Sabelo Mlangeni and Igshaan Adams at blank projects. ArtThrob [online] (published 11 February 2020).
2020 Collison, C. Sabelo Mlangeni’s intimate portrayal of queer Nigeria. New Frame [online] (7 February 2020).
2018 Sabelo Mlangeni Exhibition on Zion Churches shows in Johannesburg. Afropolitian Explosive, South Africa [online] (published 8 December 2018).
2018 Confessional Documentary: Sabelo Mlangeni and Wolfgang Tillmans in Johannesburg. ArtThrob, South Africa [online] (published 26 October 2018).
2018 Seymour, T. Sabelo Mlangeni. Nataal, UK [online] (published 11 October 2018).
2018 Warner, M. Sabelo Mlangeni’s images of South Africa. British Journal of Photography, UK [online] (published 5 October 2018).
2018 Mcutha, N. Umlindelo wamaKholwa: Sabelo Mlangeni’s zionism photography. Between 10 and 5, South Africa [online] (published 26 July 2018).
2018 Stevens, N. The Believers: Sabelo Mlangeniʼs ‘Umlindelo wamaKholwaʼ. ArtThrob, South Africa [online] (published 17 July 2018).
2018 Lim, D. Quiet images of the Zionist Christian Church. City Press, South Africa [online] (published 8 July 2018).
2018 Anstey, G. Photographer Sabelo Mlangeni is immersed in his art. Sunday Times, South Africa [online] (published 10 June 2018).
2018 Edwards, C. New photography exhibition features South Africa’s flourishing Zionist churches. The South African, South Africa [online] (published 8 June 2018).
2018 Elizabeth, M. Sabelo Mlangeni // capturing the confidence and intimacy of LGBTQ communities in South Africa. Bubblegum Club, South Africa [online] (published 5 March 2018).
2017 Madondo, B. SABELO MLANGENI: BIG CITY. Aperture.
2017 Madondo, B. A South African Flâneur’s Ambivalent View of Johannesburg. The New Yorker, US [online] (published 4 June 2017).
2017 Keam, S. Sabelo Mlangeni: Documenting A New South Africa. The Culture Trip, UK [online] (published 11 January 2017).
2014 Corrigall, M. Beyond Trauma: Landscape, Memory, and Agency in Photographs by Cedric Nunn and Sabelo Mlangeni. Safundi. 15(2-3): 329–351.
2014 Ngcobo, G. Art in Context Africa, Part I: Sabelo Mlangeni’s No Problem, and a visit to the site of Michelle Monareng’s Removal to Radium. Art Review, UK (published October 2014).
2012 Bongela, M. Vanity, Pride and Prejudice. Mail & Guardian, South Africa [online] (published 10 February 2012).
2010 Jacobs, S. ‘Afropolis’. Africa is a Country, US [online] (published 13 November 2010).
2009 Jacobs, S. Photography: Sabelo Mlangeni. Africa is a Country, US [online] (published 11 September 2009).
