Phyllis Christopher – Dark Room, San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988–2003 Magazine our states of self-preservation

our states of self-preservation

this second expanded edition coincides with an exhibition at The Royal Photographic Society in late 2019

Kooiker often uses clichés more reminiscent of the propaganda of tourist brochures or of religious and political rhetoric in the media

readers are introduced to Wojnarowicz’s Rimbaud series

art historian and writer on dance

Phyllis Christopher – Dark Room, San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988–2003 Magazine our states of self-preservationPhyllis Christophers fearless and tender photographs fuse lesbian sex and queer protest against the backdrop of a city in flux. Relocating to San Francisco from her hometown Buffalo in the late 1980s, Christopher began to collaborate with her subjects to make images in which documentary and performance converge. Dark Room brings together fifteen years of Christophers work, negotiating street, club, and studio, with camera in hand, to compose a