Les Rencontres d’Arles: Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi, South Africa Queer photographer Zanele Muholi is nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and she exhibiting at the festival in Arles, France, from July 2 to September 23, 2012. Zanele Muholi’s exhibition at Arles is a visual exploration of ‘making / mapping / preserving radical black lesbian and queer…

Pride Photo Award 2012

Pride Photo Award 2012 – Call for Entries The international contest has started. There is no entry fee, but lots of rules…. I think that these two are some of the most basic ones: – Single images in all categories must have been taken in the period starting on 1…

Zanele Muholi at dOCUMENTA 13

Faces & Phases by visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa at the contemporary art festival dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany. Zanele presents a new series of her astonishing portraits – a wall of 60 large-scale lesbian and transgender subjects from several African countries. These works are part of the ongoing ‘Faces…

The 3rd Annual Next Magazine Photo Contest

New York: Next Magazin Photo Contest 2012 Press Release from Leslie-Lohman Museum The 3rd Annual Next Magazine Photo Contest Enter your images of Gay Life in 2012 for a chance to be featured in the pages of Next Magazine Next Magazine, New York’s Gay Guide, is excited to announce their…

Swedish Porn and Erotic Art in Berlin

Press release Press photo by Elinore Lindén Strand Berlin – Swedish Porn Night at Marianne! A lesbian sex attack for you to enjoy! We give you hot movies, sexy sculptures, and erotic photos! Cum join the party! May 7, 2012 NO ENTRANCE FEE – We’re so cheap it’s free! Swedish…

Photographer Anja Müller

Image: Anja Müller’s new website, 2012 The Berlin photographer Anja Müller has recently updated her website with a lots of photos from her latest assignments. You can also see series of photos from her photography books and catalogues: Frauen 2, 2010, Mittendrin, 2008, ichdich, 2006, … aller Libe Anfang 2004,…

Stockholm – Exhibition by Frida Gustavsson

“Frida Gustavsson ställer ut verk på Skäggiga damen” at
Skäggiga damen i Bagarmossen
Svartågatan 26, (near the tunnelbanan), Stockholm, Sweden
April 15 – 18, 2012
Opening: April 15, 15:00 – 17:00 hrs

Contemporary Queer Photography

Press release Karina Cass Cedar Rapids, IA by Molly Landreth EXHIBITION i Seattle, USA “Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography Artists: Adrain Chesser, Kelli Connell, Katie Koti, Molly Landreth, Steven Miller, Rafael Soldi, Chad States, Lorenzo Triburgo, Amelia Tovey, Sophia Wallace Exhibition Dates: April 6th-May 27th 2012 Artists’ Reception: April…

Art Book: ZANELE MUHOLI – AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

ZANELE MUHOLI – AFRICAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 1 isbn 9788415303466   LA FABRICA Idea Code 11530      €25,60 Promoted by Casa Africa, this collection is aimed at making the most outstanding African women photographers better known, particularly those who have won the Casa Africa Award at the Bamako African Photography Biennial. Zanele Muholi is the…

Paris: Hear Us Marching Slowly – Solo Show by Dorothée Smith

The Solo show by queer photographer and video artist Dorothée Smith Hear us marching up slowly – Dorothée Smith, runs through February 25 2012 at la Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire in Paris, France. Dorothée Smith is a young French artist. For those of you who read French go to…

L-CALENDAR 2012

April, L-CALENDAR 2012 by Cristina de la Madera Belgian photographer Cristina de la Madera publishes the L-CALENDAR with pin ups of real lesbian couples. The 2012 L-CALENDAR is sold in different shops in Europe and online in the U.S. L-CALENDAR 2012 June, L-CALENDAR 2012 by Cristina de la Madera  Related Link More…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Laura Gilpin – The Photographer of The Southwest

video (25.33): This film celebrates the life and work of Laura Gilpin (USA), an artist whos career spanned 76 years yet who worked most of that time in obscurity. Photographer and lesbian Laura Gilpin (1891 – 1979) came from Colorado, USA and lived there most of her life. At 1917…

London: CORPUS QUEER: BODIES OF RESISTANCE

THE RESISTANCE GALLERY is proud to present AT AUCTION a major retrospective of the work of Del LaGrace Volcano. Originally shown in November 2009 as part of the SHOUT Festival in Birmingham, England, these images – large format, on board & ready to hang – will be sold at THE…

Lover Other. The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel More

Trailer: Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore_barbarahammer.com from Barbara Hammer on Vimeo 1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying…

Claude Cahun Retrospective in Barcelona

French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…

Cape Town: Isilumo Siyaluma, a Queer Solo Show by Zanele Muholi

Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.