BRIAR M. PINE, CAMOUFLAGED, 2024-PRESENT
Camouflaged explores my patriarchal lineage to investigate how masculinities are formed and performed. The project draws parallels between the history of photography and the masculine culture I was raised within, both of which carry traditions rooted in control, dominance and extraction…
ALANNA FIELDS, MIRAGES OF DREAMS PAST, 2021-2023
The artist draws upon an eclectic range of vernacular photographs of Black queer people dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. Reframing this found archive using a kaleidoscopic technique, Fields repeats and layers a single image to both reconstruct the way we process images and push beyond the constructs of nostalgia and memory...
RENÉ GROEBLI, THE EYE OF LOVE, 1952
It was their honeymoon in 1952 that took the Swiss photographer René Groebli and his wife Rita to Paris and the South of France. During this trip René Groebli photographed, but his intention was not to document, rather to create associations…
LEIGH LEDARE, AN INVITATION, 2012
Seven large-scale lithographic montages and an accompanying contract comprise An Invitation (2012), a project that resulted from an unusual request. Ms. –, a socially connected figure from a prominent family who was fascinated with Ledare’s series of photographs of and with his mother, invited him to her home and commissioned him to take erotic photographs of her for her private use…
NANCY BOROWICK, CHAPTER I: SIDE BY SIDE
The Family Imprint is the story of family, my family, looking at the experiences of two parents who were in parallel treatment for stage-four cancer, side by side…
DEAN MAJD, SEPARATION, 2018
Majd’s project Separation explores the contradictions of faith and grief, family and separation, hope and apartheid…
ANDREW KUNG, A RIVER ONCE DREAMED
In A River Once Dreamed, I recompose the Hudson River School’s romanticized paintings of the river valley by staging scenes of Asian American men casted along the Hudson…
DON HERRON, TUB SHOTS, 1978–1993
Don Herron’s “Tub Shots”, a series of portraits of underground luminaries pictured in their bathtubs dated 1978–1993. The black and white photographs create a complex landscape of the bohemian creative community circa 1980’s…
DEEPTI ASTHANA, A TALE OF TWO GIRLS
As soon as those first drops of blood trickled between my thighs, my world changed. I was a girl with short hair, one who loved playing with her brothers, but now I was being told, repeatedly, to ‘behave like a woman’…
MOTOYUKI DAIFU, LOVESODY
LOVESODY by Motoyuki Daifu is an intimate portrait of the photographer’s relationship with a single young mother and her two children. Suffused with joy and melancholy, the images capture all the intimacies of young love burning fast and bright…
MARI KATAYAMA, BYSTANDER, 2016
The experience of visiting Naoshima frequently for “bystander” had a strong influence on this. On Naoshima, there is a Bunraku puppet theatre company made up of only women called Onna-bunraku…
ANNE VETTER, LOVE IS NOT THE LAST ROOM
“Love is Not the Last Room” is made in collaboration with the artist’s family—their parents, their brothers, and their partner. It is an examination of play and leisure, tension and freedom…
ELI CRAVEN, TOUCHING, 2024
There is an undeniable relationship between the subconscious choices in my artwork and the environment in which I was raised…
SHEREE HOVSEPIAN, SELECT WORKS
Foregrounding the materiality of photography in a digital age, Sheree Hovsepian works with film-based cameras, light-sensitive paper, various objects, and her own body to produce cerebral and sensual photographs in which she deconstructs her medium...
KARLA HIRALDO VOLEAU, ANOTHER LOVE STORY, 2022-2023
This tragic love story presents in a chronological narrative the 13 months of this second relationship with X. Next to hundreds of candid and spontaneous phone images, is the transcript of the phone conversation that changed my life: the call during which I discovered X's double life…
PIERRE MINOT AND GILBERT GORMEZANO, ÉMERGENCES, 1983
Gormezano collaborated with Pierre Minot from about 1983 until his death in 2015…
BRANDON THOMAS BROWN, ANCESTRY
Known for his emotionally rich portraiture and ritual-based art practice, Brown turns the lens inward in this new series, a photographic meditation on identity, spirit, and ancestry…
SOPHIA POPPY ERICKSON, GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM
To be trans is to be a glitch—an interruption in the binary, a rupture in the system. But in the fracture, there is also liberation. Glitch in the System explores the beauty that emerges when trans bodies are freed from surveillance, when privacy becomes a sanctuary, and when self-encryption allows for true autonomy…
ALEC DAI, OFFERED TENDERNESS
The project ‘Offered Tenderness,’ advised by photographer Danna Singer, where he traveled across the U.S. from Butte, Montana (where early Chinese railroad workers migrated) to Hartford, Connecticut (where author Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ takes place), seeking remnants of his queer Asian identity in this country…
DEBORAH BRIGHT, DREAM GIRLS, 1989-90
I came out as a lesbian in 1985 in the midst of the AIDS catastrophe. It felt urgent to stand up and be counted when conservatives, including President Reagan, were using AIDS as a weapon against queer lives...