DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, SEX SERIES, 1988-89
Working in New York City’s East Village during the late 1980s, Wojnarowicz created art that was both intensely political and deeply personal. The Sex Series emerged from an overwhelming sense of loss—of loved ones, of privacy…
PAZ ERRÁZURIZ, LA MANZANA DE ADÁN (ADAM’S APPLE)
The need to investigate environments wholly condemned in the oppressive context of the Chilean dictatorship (1973–90) led the photographer Paz Errázuriz to embark on a project on marginalized subjects that she would pursue over the course of several years…
GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES
George Platt Lynes was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio…
MATTHEW LEIFHEIT, TO DIE ALIVE, 2022
To Die Alive conjures a hedonistic fever dream of Fire Island’s historic gay communities. The book contains 77 photographs by New York artist Matthew Leifheit taken by night over the past five years…
IMANI DENNISON AND LATETRA METTS-OWENS, NAKED TRUTH
In the series titled “Naked Truth,” a collaboration between fine artist Latetra Metts-Owens and Photographer, Imani Dennison, explores the truth behind people naked selves. In phase one of this project, subjects were interviewed and recorded on film, revealing things about themselves that were both uncomfortable and secret…
ZOJA KALINOVSKIS, UNSEEN
Inspired by classical sculpture, Unseen portrays disabled bodies with reverence - as worthy of art instead of objects of pity. The series challenges the narrative that disability is synonymous with suffering and seeks to dismantle societal prejudices.
ALIREZA SHOJAIAN, WRESTLING SERIES, 2015
Alireza SHOJAIAN is an Iranian artist, born in Tehran in 1988. He began his career in Tehran and Beirut and has been based in Paris since 2019. His work aims to challenge societal prejudices against non-heteronormative masculine identities…
MARLON RIGGS, BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T, 1995
The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, BLACK IS…BLACK AIN'T, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of "Blackness" that African Americans impose on each other, Riggs claims, have also been devastating…
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, UNTITLED, 1987
Wojnarowicz was in the hospital room when Peter Hujar died from complications related to AIDS. He asked the others who were there to leave so that he could film and photograph his friend for the last time…
JEFFERY JIN, A PORTAL HOME
A Portal Home is the product of a precarious situation that weaves together pictures taken within a six-month period in China, 2023. Portraits of my grandparents in Hefei
collide with photographs from queer encounters in Shanghai to tell a story of compounded origins, redefining everything I once considered home…
BERNICE MULENGA, SELECT SELF PORTRAITS, 2019-2022
Bernice Mulenga is a British-Congolese photographer with a distinct aptitude for archiving, documenting and interrogating the world around them…
ENRIQUE CASTREJON, INTIMATE EMBRACES
I create measured drawings, paintings, sound pieces to investigate, question and describe what I see in varied images of pop-culture, architecture, war, senseless acts of violence, disease, fragmented bodies, and death…
DARBY ROUTTENBERG, MISS PLUS AMERICA, 2023-ONGOING
This is un ongoing project where I am to explore plus size, body positive spaces...
JESS T. DUGAN, LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME, 2015-2022
“In Look at me like you love me, Jess T. Dugan reflects on desire, intimacy, companionship, and the ways our identities are shaped by these experiences…
MEG TURNER, WET, 2014-ONGOING
Collected as a prototype for my first artist book, Wet is a series of 46 tintype portraits taken between new orleans and new york (with a few Texas and Florida trips) between 2014 and today. The theme of water runs a slow and steady thread through the layout - bodies of water by which we feel our own bodies, our own relaxation and divinity, bodies of water which turn to smoke in the process of long outdoor exposures...
GOLDEN, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE THIS IS NOT YOUR HISTORY, 2016
Robert Mapplethorpe This Is Not Your History was created as a direct retaliation to the Portfolio Z series shot and captured by Robert Mapplethorpe in the late ’70s. In photo history, Mapplethorpe’s works are often sourced and attributed as visual etymologies for queer representations—losing sight of how the gaze of whiteness makes a spectacle of blackness when its being is rendered as just ‘body.’..
CRAIG HIGHBERGER, SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS, 2004
Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite superstar Jackie Curtis who was a poet, playwright, performer, and one of the great personalities of his time...
NICOLO GENTILE, PUT TO WREST, 2023
Nicolo Gentile’s installations reference motifs of the queer experience including kink and competitive/obsessive physique-building, as seen in material choices ranging from leather and latex to iron and steel...
NELSON MORALES, CROWNS
Since I was a child, I had this fascination for beauty pageants, especially pageant crowns, their symbols and meanings, their beauty, and the variety of them in different cultures. I have previously been portraying transvestite and transgender beauty queens in Muxe culture and was struck by their obsession with becoming a beauty queen...
ALEXIS RUISECO LOMBERA, AQUI AYA, 2017-19
Aqui Aya, 2017-19, is an investigation of place, belonging, and inherited family using self-portraiture. As I cross borders between Cuba and the United States, this series of photographs reflects on displacement as a structure of feeling and an assemblage of family as a world making strategy...