Thembela Dick (Cape Town, 1986) is a black photographer and filmmaker and LGBTIAQ+ activist. They first studied photography with Zanele Muholi at the Market Photo Workshop (Newtown, Johannesburg) before facilitating numerous media trainings and workshops. In 2017, they co-founded Terra Dick Production (TD/P). Known for their work as a documentarian. Dick’s still photographs for this exhibition are taken from their project - Khwela Ngam - in which they composed intimate portraits and imagery, contrarily documenting the real lifestyle of a queer. With an understanding of classical interpretations of women as beautiful unrealistic and fantastical creatures, the artist portrays figures categorized as strange in their most normal state, the natural nakedness familiar to all humans.