'I decided to go out and photograph every single queer person I could get to. Which at the time, amounted to 36 people.'
—a ballot proposition that would ban same-sex marriage—has grown into a fully realized enterprise, and a radically inclusive photographic project quite unlike anything else. With 9,900 portraits down, Tillett Wright’s immense photographic endeavor is nearing completion, with the goal of bringing the portfolio to life along the National Mall next summer.
This woman from the HRC was like, “Well, this is really cool. What do you want to do now?” And I was like, “I’ve photographed every cute lesbian in Williamsburg, and now I need to really branch out from that.” I had this dream of black gay cowboys. I was like, “I just know they exist somewhere, and I need to find them and photograph them.”
I quickly realized I had shot 500 people in San Francisco and L.A., and 300 people in New York. And thencalled me, out of the blue, and was like, “I’m going to give you 10 grand, and what are you going to do with it?” And I was like, “I’m going to go to the deep South.” And she was basically like, “You have a death wish.” And honestly, I was an idiot. I thought the South was all ignorant people.TILLETT WRIGHT: I was so stupid when I started this project, and I learned everything through this.
BURGER: What are you most excited to see, walking around, being in that space, with all the photos up? TILLETT WRIGHT: I’m really excited to see young people feeling safe. Maybe they couldn’t get their family to come with them, or their family doesn’t know that they’re there, or they weren’t allowed to go. Kids, where this is something shameful for them, getting to see so many people. Being the only queer kid in a small town, or being the only queer kid in a school, is an incredibly isolating experience.
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