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...
ELLIE ENGLISH, DOES MONDAY WORK?, 2022
Born and raised in South East London, Ellie documents family dynamics, sadomasochism, the everyday, and her life as a sex worker through diaristic photography. Her practice engages with intimacy, sexuality, and relationships using Fujifilm Instax…
REMSEN WOLFF, AMSTERDAM GIRLS
These unique portraits range from the exuberant and glamorous to the subdued and vulnerable. Together, the photographs show the huge variety in gender fluidity in the 1990s, beyond the spotlight of notorious nightclubs such as Club RoXY and iT…
ANTHONY FRIEDKIN, THE GAY ESSAY, 1969-1973
In making his photographic series The Gay Essay (1969–1973), Anthony Friedkin approached his subjects with an open and inquiring mind to achieve a portrait of a community and its habitués that is fearless and devoid of judgment…
ALMA LOPEZ, OUR LADY, 1999
Our Lady, the piece which some members of the Santa Fe Catholic community found offensive, is a digital photograph representing the Virgin of Guadalupe…
PHILLIP GUTMAN, INVASION OF THE PINES
The subjects are glorious drag queens who have made the annual July 4th pilgrimage to Fire Island Pines from Cherry Grove by boat, a ritual that originated as an act of protest on July 4th, 1976, the American Bicentennial…
ROBERT GIARD, NUDES
The nudes began with my first body of work in 1974: a series of self- Thereafter, friends, lovers, and acquaintances served as the occasions for the male nudes…
SHIGEKO KUBOTA, VAGINA PAINTING, 1965
Kubota’s most infamous (and somewhat anomalous) work was Vagina Painting (1965), which she presented as part of the Perpetual Fluxfest, at Cinematheque in New York on July 4, 1965…
ZORA J. MURFF X PICTURING SEX: WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET AN ACADEMIC ARTS JOB?
Zora shares some of his experiences in navigating the academic arts job market and answers questions from the group. This process is grueling, rife with discrimination, and extremely hard to navigate without the advice of the folks who have walked this path before us…