Sanele Xaba
Sanele Xaba seated backwards on a chair against a green background

South African · Based in the Netherlands

Sanele Xaba

Model · Actor · Founder

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Selected work

A practice across fashion, screen and founder-led work.

Sanele Xaba is a South African model, actor and founder working across fashion, screen and founder-led projects.

adidas · BMW · HUGO BOSS · Bombay Sapphire · De Bijenkorf

Behind-the-scenes fashion image with Sanele Xaba on a studio monitor

Fashion

Selected editorial, campaign and commercial work.
Sanele Xaba smiling beside a production camera and crew

Screen Work

Selected film, music-video and documentary work.
Wide portrait from the Albus art series

Albus

Fine-art portraiture in collaboration with Justin Dingwall.

Selected Press

The GuardianVogue FranceGQ South AfricaHet Parool

Founder-led projects

Care, culture and access in practice.

Two South African initiatives extend the work beyond the image: Rolled Sleeves builds routes to appropriate eye care for learners, while Subtropic celebrates the origins, movement and evolution of house music as an international festival platform, launching in Cape Town.

A learner taking part in a school vision screening

Rolled Sleeves Foundation

School-community eye care connecting learners with assessment, education, referral, visual support and follow-through.
Subtropic Festival vinyl

Subtropic Festival

A two-day festival celebrating the origins, movement and evolution of house music. Launching in Cape Town, Subtropic connects the genre’s roots with the global scenes, cultures and communities that continue to reshape it.