Women behind the lens: ‘I learned early what I was meant to become: a wife, a cook, a keeper of the home’

The South African artist Remofiloe Nomandla Mayisela questions the role she was expected to fulfil in her playful self-portraits MilkMaid is part of my photographic series Lipservice, which stars Mrs Martha May, a contemporary makoti (a colloquial South African term for a wife). Mrs May is alway...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/nov/04/women-behind-the-lens-i-learned-early-what-i-was-meant-to-become-a-wife-a-cook-a-keeper-of-the-home)