Amina Cruz: Through the Lens, Beyond the Veil

Video (44.48): In this episode of PARA/normal Borders, Ed Gomez speaks with Amina Cruz, a Los Angeles–based photographer and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the outsider cultures of brown queer punks throughout the Americas.

About Photographer Amina Cruz

Amina Cruz, B. 1975, Los Angeles. Lives and works in Los Angeles. She earned her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design. She also holds a MFA from University of California, Los Angeles. Amina’s photographs are utopias and landscapes filled with conversations, power, relationships, memories, joy, and fantasies that you can feel. Her interests are based in queer culture, film/analog photography, and exploring the space between transformation and identity.

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