Photography > Portraits of Queer Couples

Billie and Leah
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Abigail and Jane
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Cora and Rose
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Tracey and Brenda
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Shayna and Mindy
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Robert and Geoffrey
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Martin and Brian
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Liam and Roddy
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Jean and Tammy
archival digital print
16 inches x 20 inches
2021
Mlle Beaumount and Mlle LaBelle
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Josephine and Callie
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Ramona and Ivy from the band Tilted Mission
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Tim and Tom
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Arthur and Edward
found salt and pepper shakers, found photographs, found materials
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Diane and Lexy
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Austin and Ray
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Suellen and BJ
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022
Jerome and Larry
archival digital print
16 inches x 24 inches
2022

In my ongoing photography project, Portraits of Queer Couples, I explore definitions of couple hood by recasting found, commonplace salt and pepper shakers as queer couples. I photograph the couples in dioramas that I create from photographs, plants, and other materials, and I name each “person”. By using salt and pepper shakers to create portraits and by giving each “person” a name, I am creating reminders about lost, overlooked and neglected queer histories, narratives and imagery. In essence, this is an act of repair and reclamation, albeit an invented one, that relies on the viewer’s suspension of disbelief.