Driven by a desire to show the fullness of Black queer lives – a history rarely included in LGBTQ+ history – Ajamu X has been building an extensive personal archive for the last 30 years

Driven by a desire to show the fullness of Black queer lives – a history rarely included in LGBTQ+ history – Ajamu X has been building an extensive personal archive for the last 30 years
Rasti’s series, There Are No Homosexuals In Iran, reveals a community caught between ongoing persecution and the promise of freedom
Informed by his experience as a millennial Western man, Lakin mediates on dated yet prevalent masculine stereotypes
To coincide with Portrait of Britain 2021, Vadoliya – who was shortlisted for the award last year – discusses Brotherhood: a project musing on the many ways to be a south Asian man in contemporary Britain
A new exhibition at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery invites three photographers to interrogate the histories we remember and display
Rethinking the photobook structure, Meneghello investigates the complexity behind the homoerotic gaze
Spence’s previously unpublished thesis is the starting point for a new retrospective of her work
The career-spanning publication features the diversity of Opie’s subjects, including high school football players, mini-malls, protests, freeways and her family
Through the lenses of over 50 different photographers, New Queer Photography traverses a heady mix of identities, experiences, dynamics and aesthetics to counter “one-dimensional” perceptions of queerness
If to be seen is to exist, we must not underestimate the power of photography to validate our experiences.
With the history of the medium anchored in the white male gaze, this collection celebrates artists who traverse new realms of agency and autonomy, exploring the important role that photography can play in visualising marginalised identities.