Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America is an archive and a journey through a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today.
Stopping in churches, parks, high school classrooms, back yards and bedrooms, I have collaborated with individuals from both urban and rural areas for over six years.
With this ever-growing archive of portraits, I aim to highlight a national experience while acknowledging its many diverging, overlapping, and at times, conflicting parts.
Created as a joint effort with participants who boldly stand in front of my lens, Embodiment reveals images of love and survival, creative forms of gender expression and the ever-changing anatomy of a family. It is my hope that these photographs will become a lasting archive for generations to come.
— Molly Landreth
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Embodiment:
A Portrait of Queer Life in America
A Portrait of Queer Life in America
Molly Landreth is archiving a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today.
Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America
Molly Landreth is archiving a rapidly changing community and the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer in America today.
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