[3] The series has been shown in group exhibitions at the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval in Evora, Portugal; Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town; and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia; and was a winner of the CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography.
It is "an exploration of shame, and an unpacking of the expectations Khanyile inherited from her grandmother about what it means to be a woman"[7]—"stereotypical ideas of gender, sexual preference and related stigmas and their relevance in contemporary society".
as much from the family album snapshot as the rough urban glamour of postwar Japanese photography".
[11] Plastic Crowns came about through Khanyile spending a lot of time indoors, having been too "scared to leave her house since she was attacked on the streets.
"[6] Khanyile and Nkosinathi Khumalo direct the Johannesburg project space Zulu Republik.