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-portraitsMilkMaid 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 always dolled up, poised, ready to serve. Here she stands before a wall of long-life…