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…
CHANCE DEVILLE, GROWING TIRED OF CALLOUSED KNEES
Growing Tired of Calloused Knees” attempts to carry the multitude of issues that stem from domestic abuse as a catalyst for mental illness, poverty, and substance abuse. It’s a project that peels itself back, buckling from the pressure; a palatable view of troubled situations attempting resolve…
COURTNEY COLES, MOMMA
The very foundation of my practice is rooted in my fascination with the multiple ways I consider people, places, and memories “home” and my desire to preserve it. I am enthralled by making photographs that are soft and sincere because the world has been anything but to Black queer women like me...
FARAH AL QASIMI, MORE GOOD NEWS, 2017
Al Qasimi examines the use of photography for the purposes of shaping perception and delineating identity, with a focus on men in her respective communities in the United Arab Emirates and the United States…
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WIDLINE CADET, SEREMONI DISPARISYON (RITUAL [DIS]APPEARANCE), 2017-ONGOING
In Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) (2017–ongoing), she turns the camera on herself, exploring notions of visibility and Black feminine interiority. Throughout both series, Cadet unpicks ideas of belonging, multiplicity and the fragility of memory…
JESSE KRIMES, PURGATORY, 2009
Purgatory is a series of 300 prison-issued soap remanants depicting "offenders.". Using a hand-printing technique, Krimes transferred the New York Times portrait heads onto wet soap fragments, leaving inverse traces of the appropriated image…
AJAMU X, EARLY WORKS, 1990-1995
Ajamu X (HON FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His philosophical provocations and aesthetics celebrate black queer bodies, the erotic senses, pleasure, and the sensual-material attributes of image production…
GUADALUPE ROSALES, EL ROCÍO SOBRE LAS MADRUGADAS SIN FIN, 2020
This project is dedicated to the marginalized. It's about unlearning. Learning differently about this other reality of Mexican-American culture in East Los Angeles, California, primarily during the 1990s. Guadalupe Rosales' world was a world among many worlds. Her archival projects Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz contain modes of self-representation and visibility: the dichotomy between the good and the bad/ugly…