Holly Revell is a Brit artist photographer in London who makes collaborative portraits with fellow queer folk exploring transforming identities. It was on the queer cabaret and club scene in London that Revell found her place and then made her mark with her project ‘DARKROOM’ in 2010. Despite an initial reluctance to document other artists’ work, Revell inevitably began to turn her camera onto the extraordinarily talented performers she was working alongside, including David Hoyle, Scottee, and Jonny Woo. This work has enabled her to gain an insider’s perspective on queer performance art and to get to know some of its most talented movers and shakers intimately. She has a unique perspective and a specific eye that obsesses over the individuals with whom she works with gaining understanding and insight from behind the magician’s curtain! Notably, her photo-book ‘David Hoyle: Parallel Universe’ (published in 2017), is the culmination of eight years working alongside and with David at his London shows. The book is a record of his many looks, moods, and emotions, along with it being a diaryistic peek at the physical preparation and aftermath of the performances of one of the world’s most avant-garde, queer, punk, performance artists of all time.

Now she is on the move.  Well, technically its her latest book that is traveling to Belfast for an Exhbit of  PEOPLE LIKE US – A LIVING ARCHIVE at the Ledger Studio, University of Atypical.  Captured over seven years, People Like Us explores trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming identities and experiences from transmasculine perspectives. Exploring this radical and emotive work, Holly shares their approach to capturing moments of mundanity, intimacy and the quiet power of trans bodies; offering a fresh perspective that challenges the pressures of representation, instead choosing to hold space for pleasure, change and fluidity.

To celebrate the launch of their stunning photobook People Like Us, the Studio is hosting an intimate in-conversation event between Holly and Belfast-based filmmaker Caleb J. Roberts.