Tag: photographer
Rodrigo Oliveira: Carioca, Negro, Queer
Brazilian photographer Rodrigo Oliveira lives in his childhood home in Barra de Guaratiba, a seaside suburb of Rio de Janeiro about 30 miles to the west of the city. The rural surroundings often serve as the backdrop of his compelling portraits of the Black queer community. Oliveira started his portrait work when he returned to…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA
London’s CUBITT GALLERY is currently presenting a solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar, archive curator, and radical sex activist Ajamu X, curated by Languid Hands. Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets,…
Cecil Beaton : The Queen’s Favorite Photographer
Sir Cecil Beaton, CBE was a British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was also the favored photographer of several generations of the British Royal Family Just two weeks away from the release of the latest season of The…
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: SUNIL GUPTA, A RETROSPECTIVE
“From Here to Eternity” marks the first major retrospective of UK based Canadian/Indian leading queer photographer, Sunil Gupta . Spanning five decades, this stunning and important new exhibition will bring together all the key series from his pioneering photographic practice for the first time, as well as presenting never-before exhibited works. Born in…
Holly Revell : artist photographer and documenter of performance
We first came across the work of London photographer HOLLY REVELL when we interviewed the legendary Brit alternative performance artist DAVID HOYLE. He shared with us her stunning photo-book David Hoyle: Parallel Universe which is is a limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between him and Revell. Revell…
