Text and artworks by Anastasia Kuba Photograph from the series ‘Nothing But Light’ by Anastasia Kuba, 2015 Artist Statement by Anastasia Kuba Anastasia Kuba: ‘“Nothing But Light” explores concepts of boundaries,vulnerability, and consent. We all experience the world through our bodies. The body is the easiest target for disrespect, worship,…
Category: Photography
Honey Lee Cottrell talking with Brenda Marston. September 6, 2015. Honey Lee Cottrell talking about her vision for the first issue of On Our Backs and the psycho-sexual subway map of urban lesbian life she created, as we look at the photographs and files she is sending to be preserved…
Media release distributed by Gerard Koskovich, San Francisco, Sept. 24, 2015. Below: Honey Lee Cottrell. Photo courtesy of Brenda J. Marston. Honey Lee Cottrell (1946–2015): Lesbian Photographer, Filmmaker and Pioneer of Women’s Erotica, Dies at Age 69 Honey Lee Cottrell, a visionary photographer and filmmaker who pioneered lesbian erotica in…
Text: excerpt from Angela Jimenez’ newsletter Kickstarter project Racing Age by Angela Jimenez (2015) Racing Age is a documentary photography book about masters track & field athletes of retirement age and older. Angela Jimenez: ‘I’m working on my second book, Racing Age, a documentary series on fierce and amazing masters…
Press release by Open Eye Gallery Lebo Leptie Phume Daveyton Johannesburg 2013 © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York. ZANELE MUHOLI: VUKANI/RISE 18 SEPTEMBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2015 Open Eye Gallery 19 Mann Island Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, UK Artist Talk: Tuesday 15 September, 6-8pm…
Press release by Light Work Join us for an artist talk by current Light Work Artist-in-Residence Zanele Muholi Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 7:30pm Light Work / Watson Theater, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Syracuse University, NY, USA. A self-described “visual activist,” South African artist Zanele Muholi, has dedicated her…
Press photo by Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, 2015. WHO’S NEXT? (portraits of LGBTQ People) by Danish artist Charlotte Haslund-Christensen is part of the group exhibition ‘LIGENU’ in front of the Danish parlament in Copenhagen, Denmark. The exhibitions runs through October 18. In 2009 Charlotte Haslund-Christensen photographed over 40 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual…
Artist Talk The Hasselblad Foundation is hosting an artist talk by South African queer photographer, artist and activist, Zanele Muholi. The event will take place on September 2, at the City Library on Götaplatsen in Göteborg, Sweden. The conversation will continue with an open lecture on September 3 at Valand…
Press Release by Pride Photo Award Hinda Schuman – A True Story. Photo by Irina Popova – Apt. 779 a series about a group of lesbian girls who shared an apartment in Moskow. This year we celebrate our fifth year anniversary, and we do so in style! As Amsterdam swings…
Exhibition by bisexual photographer Germaine Krull at Galería Artizar, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, 2011. Video by the Galería Artizar.
Zoe Leonard: Analogue June 25 – August 30, 2015 Venue: The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor, MoMA, New York, USA. The exhibition is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, with Drew Sawyer, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography. Analogue by Zoe Leonard (US,…
Photo courtesy of Hinda Schuman. Call for LGBT People Who Will Praticipate In a Photography Project Philadelphia based photographer looking for recently divorced/seperated LGBT couples who would be willing to pose in a public space that is meaningful to you. Prefer a willingness to be photographed together; but separately is…
Cover of the programme of Claude Cahun – Photographies, dessins, écrites, Nantes, 2015. Claude Cahun – Photographies, dessins, écrites Dates: July 3 – August 30, 2015 Venue: Médiathèque Jacques Demy, Nantes, France The experimental self-portraits by Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954), born Lucy Schwob in Nantes in 1894, have gained…
Video (7:39): Michel Frizot, curator of the exhibition, talks about Germaine Krull, her life, her . works and her publications. Exhibition at Jeu de Paume from 02 June 2015 until 27 September 2015. Subtitles in English.
Photographer Laura Gilpin, (1891-1979) is best know for her landscapes of the Southwest and the Navajo. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth W. Forster, however the art historians are often so busy establishing Laura Gilpin’s reputation as a Great American Photographer that they forget to mention her partner, when…
Excerpt from a press release by MWG shared on facebook Winnetou by Anna-Stina Treumund Anna-Stina Treumund June 22 – August 31, 2015 at MWG, (Måndagsklubben window gallery) Hauhontie 6 B 5a, 00550 Helsinki, Finland The Queer feminist window gallery MWG ‘proudly presents the photograph exhibition of visual artist Anna-Stina Treumund…
Lesbian Photographers Panelists: Carolyn Sherer, Betsy Kalin and Connie Kurtew. Moderated by Angela Brinskele. They share their inspirations, challenges and motivations that drive their work and honor the lives of men and women they photograph. This panel took place alongside the traveling exhibit: Living In Limbo: Lesbian Families In the…
Press release by Michèle Pearson Clarke Photograph from Parade of Champions by Michele Pearson Clarke, 2015. About the Exhibition Parade of Champions explores the grief experiences of three black queer people, following the deaths of their mothers. Although grief is borne from loss of any kind, for an adult child,…
Press release by Brooklyn Museum Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Faces and Phases installed at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012. (Photo: © Anders Sune Berg) Brooklyn Museum Presents Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence The largest U.S. Museum Exhibition of the South African Photographer’s Work, May 1, 2015, through November 1, 2015….
Exhibition view; snapshot by Feminine Moments Zanele Muholi at The Photographers Gallery in London The Photographers’ Gallery showcase of Muholi’s work is part of a broader exhibition presenting the works of the four shortlistees of the prestigious Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 17 April until 7…