'New Queer Photography: Focus on the margins New Queer Photography: Focus on the margins'

Background information

"Approaching the question of one's own sexuality beyond taboo boundaries is possible precisely in art. It not only allows the safe play with the sexes, with forbidden desires, it alone grasps their contradictory nature. Not least favored by the social media, a young and committed scene in the field of queer photography has established itself in recent years. Following the need for self-portrayal, self-assurance and self-reflection, many photographers primarily show gayness as a private idyll. At the same time, their own and society's treatment of transsexuality and gender roles is critically questioned, or the pornographic is shown in its corrosive or affirmative power.
Films, series and the appropriation by mainstream culture suggest a broad social acceptance of queer life models. That being gay or lesbian can still mean exclusion, loneliness, stigmatization, and violence in certain countries and societies is impressively demonstrated by a number of documentary photographers* who also consider the colonial origins of many bans on same-sex contact and the regime of sexuality itself." (© Kettler Verlag, 2020)

Content

The carefully researched book, unfortunately published only in English, 'New Queer Photography: Focus on the margins' by Benjamin Wolbergs, Ben Miller, Edna Bonhomme, Alexander Chee, Gert Jonkers, Shiv Kotecha as well as Huw Lemmey presents over fifty contemporary photographic positions, including already established names such as Matt LAMBERT, Florian HETZ and Spyros RENNT as well as numerous talents little noticed by the public or still unknown such as Michael BAILEY-GATES, Gerardo VIZMANOS, Mark McKNIGHT, Red Rubber Road, Brian OLDHAM, Danielle VILLASANA, Claudia KENT, Maria Clara MACRI, Daniel Jack LYONS, Gianfranco BRICENO, Laurence PHILOMÉNE, Jordan REZNICK, Kostis FOKAS, Shahria SHARMIN, Birk THOMASSEN, Jonathan ICHER, Lukas VIAR, Ashkan SAHIHI, Miles GIES, Hao NGUYEN, Robin HAMMOND, Mohamad ABDOUNI, Christopher SHERMAN, Pepper LEVAIN, Benjamin FREDRICKSON, Soraya ZAMAN, Edna BONHOMME, Julia GUNTHER, Lissa RIVERA, Pauliana Valente PIMENTEL, Lia Clay MILLER, Joseph Wolfgang OHLERT, Manuel MONCAYO, Damien BLOTTIÈRE, Laurence RASTI, Jan KLOS, Bettina PITTALUGA, Francesco CASCAVILLA, Lasha Fox TSERTSVADZE, Goodyn GREEN, Luis VENEGAS, Donal TALBOT, M. SHARKEY, Ralf OBERGFELL, Bradley SECKER, Maika ELAN, Alexandre HAEFELI, Melody MELAMED, Dustin THIERRY.

Photobooks of the photographers included in the volume 'New Queer Photography' with their works

• LYONS, Daniel Jack
  RASTI, Laurence
  VILLASANA, Danielle