Living Creatures opens 7.8.22 @ Houston Center for Photography @hcponline Very excited to have work in this group show, pictured above is Proteus Effect IV (12x16 print on archival rag paper encased in a handmade frame) The subject of the portrait is collaborator Nova A @spacelordnova 🧚🏽‍♂️ The exhibit is curated by Kristen Gaylord @kaygegay Excerpt from the press release > "The word “portraiture” can sound staid and outdated, but photographing another living creature is a powerful and fraught interaction. The aggressive, metaphor-laden words we use for this moment—“shoot,” “capture,” “take”—have long been acknowledged as indicators of photographers’ ability to control their subjects’ representation, a privilege that can accompanied by care or cruelty.....Perhaps it is not surprising that photographers around the world right now are thinking about bodies. The global Covid-19 pandemic has reminded many people just how frail they can be. Yet for many, the privilege of forgetting their vulnerability has never been an option. The bodies these photographers show us are gendered, racialized, controlled. They work and love and hurt; they are beautiful and frail and powerful. In the end, these photographs expose us all as fellow living creatures, imploring us to care for our own bodies and each other’s.” Visit https://hcponline.org/exhibit/39th-center-annual-2022/ for more info