Is a Picture Worth a 1000 Words?
Photography as a Form of Artistic Resistance
As LGBTQ rights make bigger and bigger grounds every year in the fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, class, and all the ways these identities intersect – photography has been a useful tool towards putting a face to those that went around unseen. Some of these photography projects have been in direct response to political oppression such as the “Proud To Protest” campaign and others, like The Identity Project stand as testimonies against normative gender binaries and expression.
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