Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography
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Brief Encounters is an exploration of the legacy of artists using instant photography to express the queer experience. Queer people have used instant formats to protect the free expression of their intimacies, relationships, sexual liaisons, and communities; some of the risks of showing these images exist to this day. Brief Encounters functions to encourage artists to freely express aspects of queerness, resulting in diverse approaches to the instant format. Audiences will witness deeply personal glimpses into the lives of these artists as well as wild departures from what one may expect from “queer photography.”
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Exhibiting Artists
C Meier
Carlos Enfedaque
Catalina Bulgach
Chris Moody
Christian Rogers
Ian Lewandowski
Jackson Fader
Jamieson Edson
José Tinoco
Juno Rosenhaus
Kareem Michael Worrell
Michael Espinoza
Nate Francis
Ryan Rudewicz
Shadows Gather
Soft Butch
Stuart Sandford
Tom Kay
Wayne Bund
C Meier
@rispix (American, b. 1982, they/them) is a nonbinary trans masculine artist and curator based in Portland, Oregon. Their art practice explores color and materiality, reveling in the hybridization of processes including painting, drawing and photographic methods. They earned their MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2017) and BFA in Studio Art from Pacific Lutheran University (2004). Meier has exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Solas Gallery, Filter Space, Blue Sky, The Neon Heater, Nine Gallery, among others. Their work is part of the Permanent Collection of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA). Meier co-curated the 2017 exhibition ""re:collection"" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP), and curated the 2023 exhibition ""Size Matters"" for Medium Photo, San Diego. Professional roles include Collections Manager/Registrar (2018-2020) at the MoCP, Studio Assistant to Barbara Kasten (2019-2020), and Exhibitions Director (2021 - current), at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts.
Magenta Green
Purple-Cyan-Red-Yellow-Green-Magenta
Magenta-Cyan-Cyan
Magenta-Cyan-Green-Blue
Cyan-Magenta-Yellow
Green-Red-Magenta-Yellow-Blue-Cyan
Magenta-Cyan-Red-Yellow
Magenta-Cyan-Orange-Red
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Carlos Enfedaque
Carlos Enfedaque @enfedead is a Berlin-based painter from Zaragoza/Spain. He was born in 1994 and studied Fine Arts at the University of Zaragoza, the ARCA-EUAC University of Arts in Coimbra/Portugal and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia San Carles in Valencia/Spain, where he graduated in 2016. After finishing his Masters program in 2018 he moved to Berlin where he’s based ever since. His work has been exhibited at such venues as SETAREH Berlin, Swinton Gallery in Madrid or “Las Naves” Centro de Creación Contemporánea in Valencia.
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Catalina Bulgach
@oldassdutchess Born in California, lucky to have queerness around me throughout my life. As a female, I still find so much resistance to my sexuality and interest in kink. I have felt alone navigating my sexuality for as long as I can remember. I use writing and photography to express and interrogate what it feels like to have sex, embrace pleasure, and position love at the center of my life.
Summer and November (Jai)
Chris Moody
Chris Moody @horsegurlpress (b. Little Rock, Arkansas 1992) is a wild and crazy queer artist who grew up in the Texas Hill Country with a love for nature, skateboarding, drag, and men. Always creating in one medium or another, Moody has always looked at the unfathomable beauty and mystery of life here on Earth as inspiration for life/art and all of it's insane possibilities!
Mother Mountain Magenta
XXX (self-portrait)
A Cosmic Fantasy
Christian Rogers
Christian @christianmakesthings was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He received his BFA from Western Oregon University and his Master’s from Hunter College in New York City. Christian has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2017.
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Ian Lewandowski
Ian Lewandowski @ilewando is a photographer from northwest Indiana.
Studio Portrait no. 116 (Toi Ano x Ian Lewandowski: Silas in “HOUND” M)
Studio Portrait no. 123 (Jacksun)
Studio Portrait no. 127 (Chris)
Studio Portrait no. 128 (Chris + Ian)
Studio Portrait no. 129 (John)
Studio Portrait no. 139 (Self-Portrait)
Jackson Fader
Jackson Fader @bigbrojacks is a local musician, DJ, rentboy and rhinestoner. Exploring queer intimacy and the concept of censorship, his work highlights the resilience of queer love. These works were originally inspired by placing rhinestones on photos to make them appropriate for Instagram. The LGBTQIA+ community contains the special ability to use censorship to develop a new language as a way to stay visible to one another and to the world.
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“Kiss From A Rose” TShirt (sizes s-2xl)
Jamieson Edson
Jamieson Edson @j_a_m_i_e_s is a visual artist based in Somerville Massachusetts. They received their BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015. Working predominantly with Polaroid, Jamieson crafts evocative portraits of dear friends, lovers and captivating acquaintances. Their work has been featured in galleries and colleges across New England. Most recently their work was acquired by Simmons University.
Hot Cocks
River by my back door
Virgil on Spectacle Island
River and Cameron through the circle #2
Latex Friend #7
Pink night flowers
Hole is where the hole is
Heat
Mourning Statue at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Alfred holds five roses
Self-Portrait with m #2
Dozen Roses #4
Cockslut #1
Cockslut #2
Louis in the gentle light
Cock in his mouth
Rose in my bedroom
Christ Rose
My legs around T #2
Rose in the hood and spiked-collar
Cee takes off their shoes
José Tinoco
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Juno Rosenhaus
Juno Rosenhaus @junorosenhaus (b. 1962, United States) is a photo-artist working in portraiture and collage to explore themes of self-perception, feminist identities, family dynamics, and queer communities as informed by her experiences as a Dyke-identified social justice activist. An East Coast Dyke of West Coast experience, Juno is based on Lenape Nation land, colonially known as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Juno’s work has been exhibited in Oakland, Asheville, Philadelphia, and New York. In 2024 Juno had her first solo exhibit in San Francisco of her series ""I Won't Be Pretty For You: Vulvas Queered"", a collaborative community project which took place in the Bay Area, Berlin, Chicago, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. In 2020, Juno launched the Dyke+ ArtHaus, the physical manifestation of her art practice, centering Dyke-identified artists over 40. The D+AH hosts residencies, exhibits, and other events. A curator of Dyke Artists’ work, Juno most recently co-curated, with Lola Flash, a 60-person group show in New York City featuring Dyke-identified artists over 40 years of age.
Losing Tara
Kareem Michael Worrell
Kareem Worrell @kareemworrellphoto is a Boston-based photographer born and raised in the city’s historic Roxbury neighborhood. Worrell began creating haunting Polaroid portraits of his peers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. His practice crystalized on a 2004 cross-country roadtrip, where he began an ongoing photographic investigation into movement, light, and intimacy on the road. His work has appeared in The Boston Phoenix, SF Weekly, Marble Hill Camera Club and exhibited with CA53776V2.gallery. Worrell is currently compiling fifteen years of road photos for a series of self published photobooks, Lonely Highway, and worked with author Ricky Tucker to document New York City’s iconic Black and Latinx LGBTQ Ballroom scene.
In Red
Stay
White Teeth
Tilt Softly
Wild Geese
Bloom
Mirror Play
Green
Dodeca METERS Issue #11 Wild Gander
Wild Geese
Michael Espinoza
Michael Espinoza @michaelespinozaart is a non-binary, multi-racial, multi-disciplinary artist whose work embodies and embraces the undone artistic practices of Queer Ancestors lost to persecution, disease, fatal sadness, and closets. Their current practice utilizes embroidery, quilting, digital media, sculpture, and photography to explore sex and sexuality, intersectional identities, intimacy, the body, and contact with the dead. They have previously exhibited live performance, site-specific installation, and video. Their work can be found in public art collections, digital spaces, domestic and international group shows, and the many spaces intended for queer joy. Michael is a current member at Carnation Contemporary; they live and work in Portland, OR.
Kyle Polaroid Diptych
Christian Polaroid
Juancarlos Polaroid
Polaroid (misfire)
Stuart Polaroid
TC Polaroid
Sunshine Polaroid
Nate Francis
Nate Francis @natehfrancis is a photographic and sculptural artist who works with issues of identity and isolation. Nate grew up in Provo, Utah in an LDS family of nine children. His work explores the consequences of his upbringing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a queer youth and the process of queer migration and establishing his own sense of home and family.
Ryan Rudewicz
Ryan Rudewicz @rude.polaroids, Better known as Rude Polaroids, is a 3 time winner of the Glam Award as New York's best nightlife photographer. He is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Ghost Cum
LeatherMen
Us
Camp
AJ
Cuff It
My Favorite View
Freaks
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I Love Our Sex
Foot job
I Hate Cigarettes
Lovers 2 Strangers
2nd Grade
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Boyfriends
You, Me and Your Husband
All Guys Want To Do is Whip It Out
Selfie!
Fatherly Embrace
Finished
Husbands
Dick Dock
Shadows Gather
Fish Hook
Jade Ass
Soft Butch
Soft Butch @soft_butch is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Portland who works in Polaroid photography and hand drawings in charcoal pencils. He aims to capture the beauty of the people he knows in the gay Portland community.
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Stuart Sandford
Polaroid Collage XVII
Polaroid Collage LXVI
Tom Kay
@tomofportland I am a queer film photographer based in Portland, OR. I use my photography to capture the beauty in queer life. I am the photographer for the disco party Twirl and the club kid night Hickey Machine. My work has been published in Williamette Week and Backcombed Magazine; and I have exhibited my work at Enjoy Co Salon, Back2Earth, Blue Sky Gallery, and Blackfish Gallery.
Stomp
Pit
Hooked 1
Suck (shoe)
Foot Rest 1
Tied Down
His Thigh
Foot Worship 1
Stockings 1
Held Down
Holding On
Pressure (front)
Foot Worship 2
Stockings 2
Yours
Happy Baby 1
His Chest
Pressure (back)
Pit Worship
Wedgie 1
Glove
Mine
Tommys
Squish
Pit (full)
Happy Baby 2
Wedgie 2
Hooked 2
Chin Up, Baby
Gloves
Nipped
Better Than Rush
Lick (shoe)
Hooked 3
Foot Rest 2
Tied Up
Wayne Bund
Wayne Bund @bundlandia is a photographer, writer, and drag queen. He was raised on a farm in Boring, Oregon. He positions his camera to document people and systems - real and fictional - forging historical records. He crafts images that exist outside of normative structures, prioritizing feminist and queer agendas. His photographs highlight, obscure, and erase the body to celebrate the weird and the magical. He has worked as a professional photographer for 15 years and has photographed Jinkx Monsoon for Vogue Magazine. His work has shown at Seattle Art Museum, PICA, the Q-Center, and PNCA. He has received grants from the Ford Family Foundation, WESTAF Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and RACC. He studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art where he got his MFA. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a Pisces with a Virgo Moon and a Scorpio Rising.
Belly
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Power, Surrender, Intimacy
Smokeout Vegas Cigar Dads
