Holly Revell is an artist-photographer and documenter of performance who has a keen eye for preserving and collaborating with queer artists, making images and portraits which explore performance and transforming identities. She made her mark on London’s queer cabaret scene in 2010 with her photo-booth installation DARKROOM, which offered a live photographic experience to audiences at art and club events. Other notable projects include Transformations; a series of photographs made with performers reflecting the transition from drag to original self in one long exposure (2016), her photo book David Hoyle: Parallel Universe (2017). 

She is one of Queerguru favorite documenters of the UK’s rich alternative drag and queer performance art and we are delighted she has allowed us to share her current project People Like Us. It is an exploration AFAB (assigned female at birth) trans and non-binary identities and experience

The idea was to show off the participants and the project – take up and hold space for an all-trans, trans-masc, and gender non-conforming gang and make beautiful images. Revell created tableaux that were sexy, fun, and inviting for other ‘People Like Us’ who fed back about how great it was to have an area at the event that was for them!

People Like Us is all about visibility and creating new positive representations of trans, non-binary and gender-nonconforming people, sexing it up and showing off the multiplicities of queer masculine gender expression from AFAB perspectives. They are also having a laugh with masculinity, sending it up and being playful with it!

All 12 participants had their moment to shine while others from the project hyped them up and encouraged the audience to cheer them on, we created quite a spectacle, it was epic.

http://www.hollyrevell.co.uk/