Queer Photography II: Identity Displaced, is a collaborative exhibition of LGBTQIA+ artists for Photo Fringe’s 2022 festival “Real Utopias”  at the Leward Centre in Brighton UK. It’s a sequel to last year’s exhibition, Queer Photography: A non-definitive survey. This new exhibit explores and deconstructs the many facets of queer identity, highlighting how the ever-evolving, multiplicity of queer identities have the potential to engender a world without prejudice and discrimination – a queer utopia.

Curated by Socially Engaged Art Salon (SEAS) the exhibition delicately narrates ten queer voices, highlighting how individuals from the same marginalized community may be united in spirit but will have vast and different lived experiences, in relation to their queer identity. The curation harmoniously connects these voices whilst spotlighting each artist individually, commenting on the complexity of intersectionality in one’s queer identity.

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Through a multitude of photographic mediums, the participating socially engaged artists, challenge heteronormative ideals, deconstruct the gender binary and critique the Western hegemony of queerness. The selected artwork encompasses a wide array of queer identities, from the depiction of non-binarism in Greek myth to stories of transitioning, to amplifying voices of BPOC queer activists.

The exhibited work covers a wide array of photographic mediums from portraiture, underwater photography, digital art, AI imagining, collage and mixed media, studio photography and collaborative socially engaged practices.

The exhibiting artists are Ben Sharp, Farah Way, Felicity Blades, Francesca Alaimo, Gil Mualem-Doron, Pierre-Yves Monnerville, Reme Campos, Sofia Yala, Stella Michaels [StellaPix], Willam Allen and the Misfits [One Church LGBTQ youth group].

Queer Photography II: Identity Displaced
Photo Fringe exhibition at The Ledward Centre