Jess T. Dugan and Charlotte Cotton in conversation: Love Pictures
Artist Jess T. Dugan will be joined by writer and curator Charlotte Cotton for a conversation about their new publication, Love Pictures, published by Radius Books.
Love Pictures is the first comprehensive survey book of Dugan’s work and features more than twenty years of photographs. A collaboration between Dugan and Cotton, it is centered around a series of conversations between the two focusing on core themes that inform Dugan’s practice, including gender and identity, family and politics, writing and language, the book as object, and the dynamics of the exhibition space.
These initial dialogues then prompted subsequent conversations with others in Dugan’s and Cotton’s respective communities: friends, colleagues, mentors, and subjects of Dugan’s work—including Dawoud Bey, Kelli Connell, Dorothy Moss, and Catherine Opie, among others.
JESS T. DUGAN is an artist whose work explores identity and the complexities of the human condition. While their practice is centered around photography, it also includes writing, video, sound, drawing, and installation. Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over seventy museums.
CHARLOTTE COTTON is a curator and writer who explores photography and visual culture. She is the author of key books that chart photographic practices in this century, including Photography is Magic (2015) and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004).
Published by RADIUS, who will be participating in Photo London 2026.
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