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from the series "The real story of the Superheroes"

Dulce Pinzón challenges negative stereotypes about immigrants in the United States with her project, “The real story of the Superheroes.” Pinzón set out to capture images of those she considers…

From the "Arctic Wonderland" series

Sarah Anne Johnson conceived of the series “Arctic Wonderland” after an artist’s residency on a ship sailing the Norwegian territory of the Arctic Circle. As she traveled through this tremendous and pristinely…

Selin Balci, who earned her MFA in installation and mixed-media art at the University of Maryland in 2012 and a degree in forestry from the University of Istanbul in 2002, considers herself a bio-artist. She applies her training in scientific…

Jeremy Dean explores the idea of ‘the American dream’ by deconstructing symbols of wealth, patriotism, and power. To make Economics, he took apart an American flag thread by thread. He then reassembled it by tying each strand to a needle superimposed…

From the series "The Outliers"“The Outliers” series began when photographer Elle Pérez visited a “Faerie” sanctuary in rural Tennessee for seekers of radical queer community. Pérez was inspired there by people freely embracing identities between and…

Barbara Probst investigates perception through photographic processes of framing and dislocation. She uses two or more cameras, triggered by remote, to record a single scene from multiple angles at the exact same moment. The resulting works subject…

From the series "Paper Quilt and Collage"In his “Paper Quilt and Collage” series, John Paradiso explores “growing old as a gay man.” He combines techniques of quilting, inspired in part by the AIDS Memorial Quilt, with seductive images of the male…

Patrick Jacobs creates small portals that invite viewers in for intimate moments of discovery and introspection. At first glance, Fairy Ring with White Clover appears to open a lens onto a photographic landscape. A closer look reveals something more…

Fear on Their Faces (page 7) is a work from Hunter Reynolds’s “Survival AIDS” series. Between 1989 and 1993, the artist clipped and archived articles he encountered concerning the LGBTQ community and, in particular, the topic of AIDS. To make this…

From the series "Game Changing"Derrick Adams’s Game Changing transforms familiar “face cards” from a standard deck of playing cards into images of black royalty. They remix and interrogate the symbolic codes underlying coats of arms and other…