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The African woman, an epitome of beauty. 🖤 taken in Ndwedwe, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa by @raphael_kreations

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4 years ago

Some memories just don't fade.

From The childhood series.

Photographer : @langz_raphael

#africanprint #photography #photographer #africanphotography #africa #blackmodel #melanin #zulu #cannonphotography #cannon #50mm #galleryofafricanart #creatives #creativephotography #kwazulunatal #bodyart #art #artist #durban #durbanartist #tribalart #blackart #zulu #kingsvillevisualsgallery #childphotography
#documentaryphotography taken in KwaZulu-Natal by @raphael_kreations

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4 years ago

Love & light. 🙏🏿🤍

A Zulu love story... ✍🏿

👩🏿‍🦱 @manzezulu_khondlo
🙎🏿‍♀️ @iam_sibongokuhle

Body Art : @kwandaxaba x @langz_raphael

📷 :@langz_raphael

#africanprint #photography #photographer #africanphotography #africa #blackmodel #blackwomen #zulu #cannonphotography #cannon #50mm #galleryofafricanart #creativephotography #creative #bodyart #art #artist #blackgirlmagic #blackgirlsrock #sunrisephotography #sunrise #photographer #durban #durbanartist #melanin #melaninmagic #culture #blacklove taken in KwaZulu-Natal by @raphael_kreations

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4 years ago

THE BODY AS ARCHIVE.

#langelihlemawela #art #artist #reels by @raphael_kreations

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25 days ago

UNDERNEATH THE WATERS

We need to cleanse.
Ourselves. Our land. Our memory.

These are the ancestors of Alkebulan.
They went beneath the waters when their land was taken above.

Now the non-natives walk on top and teach the natives how to live in their own land — without their true selves. Without their wealth, which is the land.

To heal, we must have the uncomfortable conversation:
Who are we when we are not who they taught us to be?

We must remember.

Beneath the waters, they are still praying in white.
Waiting for us to come down and wash.

Inhlambuluko.

#langelihlemawela #art #digitalart taken in KwaZulu-Natal by @raphael_kreations

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a month ago

Digital arts meets theatre performance.

For years I’ve wanted to merge all my mediums in one space, film, paint & digital art. For JOMBA dance Theatre Festival, I finally did.

I created digital visuals for my brother @imhotep perfomance at jomba. a time-travelling piece that moves through time and space to capture different generations of Abantu, the aboriginals.

Using Afrofuturism and digital art as a language, it’s me travelling through space and bringing that journey back into theatre as part of the storytelling.

This is theatre as archive. As future. As memory.

Digital visuals by isandla semfene. 🦍

PS || this video is actually much longer, and much slower. You had to be there to experience it.

#langelihlemawela #art #digitalart #photoshop #artist taken in KwaZulu-Natal by @raphael_kreations

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a month ago

To return to yourself, you must stop performing.
Stop rushing to be understood.
Stop wearing what was never yours.
sit, breathe, wait.
And in that waiting, remember you were never lost.
You were just moving too fast to be found.

Muse || @umcijo_xaba taken in KwaZulu-Natal by @raphael_kreations

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2 months ago

The queer body refuses to pick a side.

It wears masculine and feminine like twin crowns.
No choosing. No opposite. No shrinking.
Just the whole self, in full spectrum, standing against the sky.

This piece celebrates a body that refuses binaries.
It holds masculine vigor and feminine grace in one breath.
The sharp lines of the painted patterns.
The soft curves.
The strength to stand in the wind, and the softness to be adorned by hand.

It is not becoming anything.
It is not opposing anything.
It is embracing everything it already is.

Unapologetic.

Muse || Lihle Mthanti

#langelihlemawela #art #queer #wlw #lgbtq by @raphael_kreations

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2 months ago

When i was in Grade 4, a friend of mine drowned and died in a school pool. a few years later, I also drowned and almost died. I was giving up when they pulled me out of the water.
Since then, water has been fear.

But through my work, I keep putting humans in the water.
Under the ocean. Painted. Praying. Breathing.

Because the water taught me something:
Fear is part of life. But it doesn’t get to dictate how I live.

The ocean is a bridge.
Between life and death.
And I have always survived in the space between the two.

The ocean always tries to take me home, this language. Is how I communicate. My deepest thoughts and fears. My past traumas turned into works of art and something people admire. I learn to conquer my fears emotionally and mentally through my work.

However,physically. I still fear to go near the water. I still don’t know how to relax and trust that i can. The idea that this is still something that i fail to do. Time and time again but in a different realm. We travel and have seen different kingdoms that remind me of my true path. But first, theres a bridge we need to cross.

#langelihlemawela #art #artist #surrealart taken in KwaZulu-Natal by @raphael_kreations

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3 months ago

The land raised me. The sky holds me. I am not alone.

#langelihlemawela #bodyart #photography by @raphael_kreations

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4 months ago

POV: Life as a multi disciplinary artist with ADHD.

#langelihlemawela #artist #art #reels by @raphael_kreations

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4 months ago

The Art of Isolation

There’s a version of you that only shows up when the noise goes quiet.

Standing here, Body painted with patterns that speak before words can — this is what isolation looks like when it’s intentional. Not loneliness, but a deliberatly stepping away. To strip back the noise, the expectations, the roles you play for everyone else, and sit with the one person you avoid most: yourself.

Nature doesn’t rush you. The mountains don’t ask who you are. The wind doesn’t care about your title, your past, your plans. It just is. And in that stillness, something shifts. The earth under your feet reminds you that you’re part of something older, slower, steadier than whatever is breaking you right now.

This is grounding. Not in a metaphorical sense, but literally feet in the grass, chest open to the sky, skin breathing with the land. Nature becomes the mirror. It reflects back what’s real when everything else feels manufactured.

Isolation, done right, isn’t escape. It’s return. Return to your breath. Return to your body. Return to the quiet knowing that you’ve been carrying all along.

Sometimes you have to walk away from everyone to find yourself again. And when you do, you come back whole.

Muse || @umcijo_xaba

#langelihlemawela #art #photography #bodyart by @raphael_kreations

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5 months ago