Chloe Sherman’s new book and Berlin exhibition displays her raw documentary photos of femmes, butches, punks and studs in the city’s vibrant Latinx Mission District
stumbled across a photobook and realised what she’d been looking for. It was 1991 and photographer Del LaGrace Volcano had just releasedthe first photographic monograph of lesbian sexuality from an insider’s perspective, which sparked controversy and censorship in both mainstream and gay media for its sex-positive portrayal of lesbian communities across San Francisco, London, and beyond.“I would thumb through the pages and want to know these people,” Sherman tells AnOther.
It was there, in the pulsing heart of the city’s queer subculture, that she found her people. In the decade that followedtaking enough images to fill an entire wall cabinet with 35mm negatives. Now, Sherman has publisheda book and exhibition travelling outside the US for the first time at f3 – freiraum für fotografie in Berlin. “I always knew it was a unique time that I wanted to capture and preserve.
who headed west. But the 90s were a groundbreaking time in the city’s queer history. “It was scrappy and DIY and raw and experimental and alive,” she explains. In blowing up gender binaries, Sherman’s peers departed from the more essentialist feminism of the 70s and 80s, leading to “clashes” with older lesbians who rejected their embrace of masc fashion and expression. “We were a new generation, and we were creating a new jumping-off point,” Sherman reflects.
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