PETER HUJAR, LOVE & LUST, 1969-1986
Celebrated and revered by artists, the work of Peter Hujar remains something of a public secret, but his photographs dealing with sex and eroticism, made between the years 1969 and 1986, have come to define a certain era in New York…
AYANA V JACKSON, TAKE ME TO THE WATER
Jackson uses the archival impulse to assess the impact of the colonial gaze on the history of photography and its relationship to ideas about the body. She uses her lens to deconstruct 19th and early 20th-century portraiture as a means for questioning photography’s role in constructing identities…
CARLA J WILLIAMS, SELECT WORKS, 1983-1986
Making self-portraits and using instant film and prints, I knew I had complete control over the images and thus invested in them a degree of freedom that I might not have if I had thought anyone would ever see them, because I didn't think anyone ever would…
MATT GRUBB, BRIAN SINGER 2001
Brian Singer 2001 is a conceptual recreation of the film director Bryan Singer’s infamous gay pool parties from the early/mid 2000’s…
LYLE ASHTON HARRIS, AMERICAS, 1987-88
Harris produced an early series of black and white gelatin silver photographic prints titled “Americas” in 1987-88, in which he explored issues of race, gender, and sexuality through visual representation and their intersection in the formation of subjectivity…
JOHN COPLANS, SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS
I photograph my body. I generalize it by beheading myself to make my body more like any other man's. Nakedness removes the body from the specificity of time: unclothed, it belongs to the past, present, and future…
BARBARA NITKE, AMERICAN ECSTASY, 1982-1991
American Ecstasy is a memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years photographer Barbara Nitke spent shooting stills on porn movie sets in New York City…
DANIEL RAMPULLA, WILD PLACE
Daniel Rampulla’s Wild Place is a series of photographs that builds an exploration of youth and queerness. These enigmatic images assemble through a series of noir-outdoor portraits, a personal and voyeuristic vision of intimacy…
TRISH MORRISSEY, FRONT, 2005-2007
Front deals with the notion of borders, boundaries and the edge, using the family group and the beach setting as metaphors. For this work, I travelled to beaches in the UK and around Melbourne…
JON HENRY, STRANGER FRUIT
Stranger Fruit was created in response to the senseless murders of black men across the nation by police violence. Even with smart phones and dash cams recording the actions, more lives get cut short due to unnecessary and excessive violence…
ROTIMI FANI-KAYODE, SELECTED WORKS
Working during the height of the AIDS crisis and responding to the homophobia of both Thatcherite England and his home country of Nigeria, Fani-Kayode produced images that exalt queer black desire, call attention to the politics of race and representation, and explore notions of cultural identity and difference…
D’ANGELO LOVELL WILLIAMS, CONTACT HIGH, 2022
Contact High offers an expansive engagement with the visualisation of desire and depiction of the Black body. Williams’s narrative images reflect the many forms in which Black queer people exist and have existed historically within each other’s lives, picturing them as sitters, lovers, caregivers, or shadows…
CATHERINE OPIE, DYKE DECK, 1995
Catherine Opie’s legendary 52-piece Dyke Deck of playing cards. Released in 1995, they feature highly stylised portraits of Opie’s queer community, many friends and others cast during an open call in San Francisco…
KATY GRANNAN, POUGHKEEPSIE JOURNAL
Katy Grannan relies on documentary photography as a point of reference in order to merge reality and fiction, while capturing the subtleties of her sitters’ psychologies…
TROY MONTES-MICHIE, SELECTED COLLAGES, 2013/2014
The themes I’m exploring are the intersections of race and gender and the exotification of the black male body. A lot of the more recent works I’ve been doing are images of black men from pornography that are cut up and collaged…
LORNA SIMPSON, SHE, 1992
Simpson focuses on challenging the construct of gender and questions society’s idea of femininity and how society thinks there is a direct link between codes of dress and femininity…
NONA FAUSTINE, WHITE SHOES, 2021
White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were central to the city’s once pivotal – and now largely obscured and unacknowledged – involvement in the slave trade…
LEIGH LEDARE, PERSONAL COMMISSIONS, 2008
For the project Personal Commissions Ledare answered Women Seeking Men personal advertisements posted in various New York City newspapers. While primarily serving as a vehicle for seeking out companionship, these ads often referenced phrases such as “tribute”, which only thinly disguised the subjects’ participation within an underground economy of intimacy, sexual gratification and material validation…
GILLIAN WEARING, ALBUM, 2003
The mask occupies a central place in the videos and photographs of Gillian Wearing. Wearing has employed various kinds of masks—from literal disguises to voice dubbing—to conceal the physical identities of her subjects and allow them to reveal their innermost secrets…
HANK WILLIS THOMAS - UNBRANDED: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK BY CORPORATE AMERICA, 2005-2008
Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America explores fifty years of print advertising targeted towards African-Americans—from 1968, a year of heightened social and political protest that saw the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., until 2008, the year of the election of the first African American president…