Benjamin Wolbergs' New Book Explores Contemporary Queer Photographs

Editor Benjamin Wolbergs on 'New Queer Photography'

Benjamin Wolberg on New Queer Photography:

"Around three years ago, I was working on the layout of a book about physique photography with photos from the 1950s, whose aesthetics and visual worlds were clearly intended to appeal to a gay audience. In the course of this work, I asked myself: What would a book with contemporary gay and queer photography look like? What photographers, topics, and styles would be included in such a book today?

Around that time, I became aware of the works of Matt Lambert and Florian Hetz, and I started to look for other gay and queer photographers. As my research intensified, a universe of incredibly talented LGBTQ photographers emerged in front of me, characterized by a wide variety of different styles and visual worlds beyond cliches and preconceptions. This is how the idea of New Queer Photography was born.

As the subtitle of the book ("focus the margins") already suggests, with this publication I would like to focus on topics such as drag and gender, queerness and transsexuality, which are on the margins of social discourse. At the same time, I would like to create a high-profile and quality platform for these issues and for these extremely talented photographers to present their work."

The crowdfund campaign to bring this book to life will run until December 22, 2019.
You can support the campaign here, where you can also preorder the book at a discount price.
www.nqp-book.com

Damien Blottière

Kostis Fokas

Kostis Fokas

Milan Gies

Milan Gies

Alexandre Haefeli

Alexandre Haefeli

Florian Hetz

Florian Hetz

Melody Melamed

Melody Melamed

Manuel Moncayo

Lissa Rivera

Spyros Rennt

Spyros Rennt

Birk Thomassen

Birk Thomassen

Gerardo Vizmanos

Gerardo Vizmanos

Soraya Zaman

Soraya Zaman