If there is queer culture in Antarctica, count on editor Benjamin Wolbergs to find it — at the moment, that’s the only continent not represented in the rich, raunchy, romantic, and radically real New Queer Photography: Focus on the Margins from Gingko Press. In 304 wild and wickedly diverse pages we meet 52 artists — Rainbow Girls, Berlin Boys, Queens at Home, Queer Kids, Beautiful Freaks, and numerous safe havens of body and soul welcoming Sexugees who flee Where Love is Illegal.
“These photographers have a rare gift and rare accessibility to intimacy,” said Wolbergs. “The works are raw, racy and unapologetic. It’s about queer people. No two of this collection’s artists are the same. Neither are the images or the perspectives.”
The book was developed over the last four years by Benjamin. Besides the graphic and richly realized images, there are eloquent and revelatory texts spread throughout such as Edna Bonhomme’s “The Joys of Trouble making”, Shiv Kotecha’s “Call Me Heena” and noted author Alexander Chee’s “Queer Kids In America” where he writes movingly about “the dream of the heroic age of gay liberation, that became in turn the nightmare of AIDS.”
Artists in New Queer Photography: Focus on the Margins (in order of presentation) – Dustin Thierry, Florian Hetz, Melody Melamed, Alexandre Haefeli, Maika Elan, Bradley Secker, Ralf Obergfell, M. Sharkey, Donal Talbot, Luis Venegas, Goodyn Green, Lasha Fox Tsertsvadze, Francesco Cascavilla, Bettina Pittaluga, Jan Klos, Laurence Rasti, Damien Blottière, Manuel Moncayo, Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert, Lia Clay Miller, Pauliana Valente Pimentel, Lissa Rivera, Julia Gunther, Soraya Zaman, Matt Lambert, Benjamin Fredrickson, Pepper Levain, Christopher Sherman, Mohamad Abdouni, Robin Hammond, Hao Nguyen, Milan Gies, Ashkan Sahihi, Lukas Viar, Jonathan Icher, Birk Thomassen, Shahria Sharmin, Kostis Fokas, Jordan Reznick, Laurence Philomène, Gianfranco Briceño, Daniel Jack Lyons, Maria Clara Macrì, Claudia Kent, Danielle Villasana, Brian Oldham, Red Rubber Road artists Ana Hell and Nathalie Dreier, Mark McKnight, Spyros Rennt, Gerardo Vizmanos and Michael Bailey-Gates.
The uncomplexed modernity of the Front de Seine in the 15th arrondissement of Paris is a striking backdrop for the Lacoste Fall/Winter 2021 collection designed by Louise Trotter.
While waiting for the third album, which is expected to be out later this year, we met Olly on Zoom to discuss his upcoming new era, the pandemic and how social platforms are changing the music industry.
Muy pronto llega la Venta Privada de primavera, uno de los momentos más esperados del año, en el que podrás disfrutar de un 20% de descuento adicional en tus compras en el Village.
The fully immersive exhibition, RETURN TO SLYGO will celebrate the coming together of Nicholas’s multicultural Jamaican-Scottish roots with his passion for music in a multi-sensory installation.
In its second season, the meeting between the House and the professional basketball league explores our collective memories of the two cultural institutions around the time of 1990s’ basketball mania.
Leïti Sène is releasing T-REX, the first single of his upcoming solo album; we talk with Leïti himself and director Miguel Morillo on having a dream, a career, a lovelife and the most primary and animal part of ourselves.
The collection is dedicated to Nika Jorjadze, a reckless boy who died tragically at age 15. His music, art, and style became an inspiration for this streetwear brand releasing.
This world-renowned bilingual design school, the first in the heart of the Paris Latin Quarter, is keeping positive and busy during these uncertain times.
Conan Gray wearing Lacoste and shot by Tommy Dorfman.
In this issue, we explore how we are connected to nature and the intersectionality of social and sustainable issues.
We talk to designer Bethany Williams who believes that social and environmental issues are connected along with
designers Francisco Terra of Neith Nyer, Tom Van der Borght, and actor Archie Renaux. Stylists were encouraged to not only explore conscious designers but to pull from the archives, vintage, and to forget about seasons with editorials.
