Thames & Hudson Presents: Calling The Shots: Queer Spaces in Photography
Photograph Image of photomontage illustration from ‘Aveux non Avenus’ [Disavowed Confessions]; Platinum print by Claude Cahun, image of a collage, 1930, printed 2004, from the book ‘Aveux non Avenus’ Claude Cahun 1930; 2004 Platinum contact print made from ‘half plate’-sized glass negative © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ticket Price: £10
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Speakers
Bex Wade
Bex Wade is a UK-based trans non-binary photographer known for their intimate documentation of contemporary queer life, from underground club scenes to protest and global Pride movements.
Jake Elwes
Jake Elwes is a conceptual artist, hacker, radical faerie and researcher whose practice explore potential ways of demystifying, mapping and subverting technology.
Ajamu X
Ajamu X (Hon FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist and archive curator. His practice is rooted in the sensuality of the black queer body, pleasure, desire, the erotic and the sensual-material attributes of process and image production.
Rosy Martin
Rosy Martin is an artist-photographer, therapist, workshop leader, lecturer and writer who explores the relationship between photography, memory, identity and unconscious processes.
Zorian Clayton
Zorian Clayton is Curator of Prints (1850-now) at the V&A. He is the co-author of Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography and The Poster: A Visual History. Since 2016, he is also a programmer for the British Film Institute Flare Festival.