Kadar Small uses photography to normalize what it means for the queer community to show affection in public spaces.
Brooklyn-based photographer and videographer Kadar Small wants you to “feel” when you see his work. The 22-year-old has a knack for capturing private moments in not-so-private spaces. He’s established himself as New York’s go-to nightlife photographer by being the man behind the lens at, Kadar explores personal acts of affection between queer people of color in public spaces around Brooklyn.
The idea for the project came to Kadar, who identifies as bisexual, after a friend expressed that seeing him and his now ex-boyfriend kiss in public was the first time she’d seen two men kiss in real life. From there, Kadar began asking heterosexual friends and strangers when the last time was that they saw two people of the same sex show PDA that wasn't on television. Many, he says, couldn’t name a time that they’d witnessed this.
i-D spoke to Kadar about the project, capturing New York’s queer nightlife scene, and his own relationship with PDA.came about in the beginning of this year while I was away for a business trip in Dallas, Texas. I kissed my now ex-boyfriend in front of one of our friends. She later shared with me, that was her first time seeing two guys kiss in person. This was very surprising to me since she is bisexual and we are around the same age.
I started taking photos of nightlife in 2019, during a very low point of my life. I like to say the scene helped save my life. Building relationships through the club scene, people started noticing me by my VHS in one hand and my point and shoot around my neck. Later, people started asking me to shoot their parties because of my style of shooting. My friend Kenni Javon, the creator of Dick Appointment, asked me to be part of the team and to help create the culture.
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