Artist name: Olivia Alonso Gough

Image: Aspen and Reggie

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When we see pieces of ourselves reflected in the world, we can believe that those parts are true. We believe what we see. If we are denied memory and nostalgia because our archives don’t exist, then we are denied a part of the human experience. For a long time, this has been the reality for queer people; we were forced to find our stories between the lines and in the shadows.

Now, queer image makers stand in powerful positions as they lay down the beginnings of our archive. We found power between those lines and learned that imagining things into existence is possible.

I feel responsibility as a queer artist to contribute to the archive by creating images of queerness that are honest, hopeful, and that extend beyond the moment of capture. Photography is an accounting of life that takes as long as life itself, and through it I create evidence that we are taking up time and space.