What It Means To Be Here

In “What It Means To Be Here” I use photographs, video and mixed media to grapple with the lack of representation of lesbian photographers, absence of the lesbian gaze and the long patriarchal constructs that shape our ideas of the female form and the creation of images. I capture intimacy between lesbian, queer and bisexual women from my community with a sense of ordinariness, and reverence for sex and pleasure with agency and spontaneity. In this work I call into question the historic lack of lesbian representation within the photographic medium with which I engage.