Kristin-Lee Moolman is a South African born photographer and filmmaker. Having grown up during the political transition between Apartheid and Nelson Mandela's new South Africa has had a profound and long lasting impact on the narrative of her work.
" SOFT CRIMINAL SHOW"
BALOJI
BALOJI
THE LEOPARD
With an eye for creativity and innovation, she is driven by the need to produce evocative images.
Her gender bending photographs validate the humanising power of art. It stands as a celebration of the integrity with which minorities express their identity and desires.
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
'2026 SHOW'
DOUBLE
FANZINE
NATAAL
Her work explores the ever-changing social and political landscape of Africa through portraits marked by contrasting realities - promoting powerful new identities that provide counter-narratives to current stereotyped, idealized imagery.
INTERVIEW
DAZED
DOUBLE
BALOJI
T MAGAZINE
Through themes such as sexuality, violence and black magic, her colorful, pop imagery is “a celebration of people and a utopian approach to the future.”
i-D
EDUN
BURBERRY
DAZED BEAUTY
She places her gender-nonconforming subjects in mundane suburban landscapes, using a sun-bleached pastel aesthetic to tweak the everyday into the realms of the surreal. In short, Kristin-Lee is pushing to make the alternative the norm – and that in itself contests uniformity.
THE LAST MAGAZINE
ANOTHER MAN
i-D
BURBERRY
Recent exhibitions and collaborations include “Items, Is Fashion Modern” at the MomA, NY. “Being There: South Africa, A Contemporary Art Scene “ at Fondation Louis Vuitton, PA. “ Soft Criminal “ at Red Hook Labs, NY . 2026 as a part of “Utopian Voices” at Somerset House, LDN. & 2026 at Cf Hill, Stockholm.
'ITEMS, IS FASHION MODERN?' MOMA EXHIBITION
RE-EDITION
BRITISH VOGUE
Clients Include: British Vogue, Dazed, Double, i-D, M Le Monde, Nataal, Burberry, HBA, Nike.
In march, the Norton Museum of Art awarded the 2020 Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers to Kristen-Lee Moolman.
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