“I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic…
“I’m hoping someone standing in front of my work might get the same feeling I got when I stood in front of the work of Carrie Mae Weems, having a…
“They may seem to have disappeared from history, but their lives, in fact, have influenced ours enormously and remain important today.”— Kang Seung Lee Kang Seung Lee| Image courtesy of…
“Once you start immersing yourself in the feedback loop, you become a very accountable agent in that process and to me, that’s the direction our species has to go in…
“I’m incorporating certain gestures, certain kinds of bodies, citations from queer politics and art, figures from the past and present, and bringing that into a shared frame, a roadmap for…
“Being aware of the photographic traditions of postmodern photography and identity art, I want to explore the idea of sentimentality, the premise of highly compressed emotion. They are deliberately over…
“In life we all the time make social adjustments to please people around us. We forget our duty towards ourselves. What we should do in art and life is do…
“I think it’s a response to a problem that I’m sure a lot of us here are familiar with, which is that people who are not speaking from what has…
“Well, one can say a continuing interest in problems which religion covers such as birth, death, sex – these particular aspects of humanity. And certainly religion is either revealed or…
“We are tired of portrayals of our community by mainstream society that are homonormalised, overly positive or pitiful. We just have to be honest and blunt, whether the truth is…
