Gender Archives | 1854 Photography

Elle Pérez proposes a different way of seeing, through a queer gaze

Reading Time: 2 minutes The photographer considers the complexities of gender and the transformation of the body, drawing on their Muy Thai training and study of the queer community

Art as therapy in Mitchell Moreno’s Pandemaniac

Reading Time: 3 minutes Moreno’s Latest work draws on glamour, Freud, gender and performance as they navigate an isolated lockdown.

K Young’s surreal collages of contorted bodies explore social constructs of gender roles and identity

Reading Time: 3 minutes By splicing found imagery from magazines and books, the artist teases out new narratives and rephotographs the result.

Picture this: Transgression

Reading Time: 5 minutes Michael Bailey-Gates, Paolo Roversi, Marie Tomanova, Kacey Jeffers, and Nina Manandhar respond to the theme transgression through image and text

Barbican curator Alona Pardo on the themes and ideas behind Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Reading Time: 9 minutes Opening this week, a timely exhibition at the Barbican explores how masculinity has been coded and performed since the 1960s. We speak to curator Alona Pardo about destabilising and debunking the myths surrounding it.