Video (16:14): Queer artist Catherine Opie reflects on over 50 years of photography: placing her contemporary portraits in dialogue with old portrait paintings in the National Galleries of Scotland’s collections.
Category: Photography
Catherine Opie: To Be Seen. On now until Sun 1 Nov 2026 at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Zanele Muholi Hasselblad Award 2026 , 10 October 2026 – 4 April 2027 at Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Video (30:29): Yvonne Shaff, YourLuxury Africa MD in conversation with Hasselblad laureate 2026, Prof Zanele Muholi who received the award for her work documenting queer black people in South Africa.
Video (2:55): UK-base queer artist Ronan Manfredi talks about the photography project she is working on in Napoli, Italy.
Video (6:29): Using still and moving images, portraits, film and fragments, Roman Manfredi presents Napoli and their queer Femminielli community.
Pioneer lesbian photojournalist Frances Benjamin Johnson and friends, in drag.
American photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt was in a relationship with pioneer photographer and lesbian Frances Benjamin Johnson for eight years.
Video (2:00): Slideshow with photos by lesbian photographer Marta Hoepffner (1912-2000).
Video (38:00):Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were French Surrealist photographers. This presentation presents some of their work, and compares them to another lesbian couple.
Video (58:59): Artists Morgan Gwenwald, Salgu Wissmath, Jessica Tanzer, Naima Green and Phyllis Christopher in conversation with moderator Sunny Leerasanthanah.
Video (1:27:49): Lesbian artist/photographer Morgan Gwenwald in conversation with Ariel Goldberg about her wide-ranging documentation of lesbian and queer grassroots organizing in New York City in the 1970s-1990s.
Video (1:34:12): The CPW panel features photographers Morgan Gwenwald, Luis Manuel Diaz, Kate Warren and Meryl Meisler for a conversation moderated by Anna Conlan
Queer-Friendly Nightlife Now at CPW Photography Biennial, May 30, 2026 – September 5, 2026 at CPW, 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY, USA.
“Dreams from America” is Renée Jacobs’ biggest collection to date and is composed of 308 images taken mostly during the photographer’s years living in California from 2006-2016.
Video (44.48): In this episode of PARA/normal Borders, Ed Gomez speaks with Amina Cruz, a Los Angeles–based photographer and interdisciplinary queer artist.
Catherine Opie:Mountains Don’t Know Their Names at PoMo in Trondheim, Norway
June 25, 2026-January 03, 2027.
Video (5:09): Student Kalliope Tsartsalis’ presentation of “Being and Having” a landmark artwork by queer artist Catherine Opie.
Video (6:36): Catherine Opie’s gallery talk in ‘Catherine Opie: Holding Blue’, May 28–July 3, 2026 at Regent Project in Los Angeles, USA.
Birthe Havmøller/Feminine Moments visited: ‘We Others’ at the Photographer’s Gallery in London in May 2026. Here are my snapshots from the landmark exhibition of early lesbian portraits by Donna Gottschalk.