This project looked at how a group of different LGBTQ+ people express themselves and their identities in their day-to-day lives. Individual expression is at the centre of this project, while all the people featured in the work belong the the same community and many with share labels within the LGBTQ+ community too, everyone is also represented as just themself, as an individual, and as a person.
Part of the inspiration for the work came from responding to negative stereotypes about queer people, with the work being a more positive rebuttal to negativity that simply shows queer people as people, existing and expressing themselves however feels natural and right to them.
The project consists of two series’ of images. All images have been printed using the cyanotype process, with one series printed onto plain paper and the other onto pages from an anthology of queer poetry, with the pages being selected by the subjects so they choose what words they will be associated with.
Portraits Series
Portraits over Poetry Series
© Artemis Hatfield, 2024