From Alyssa Goodman’s review of Jess T. Dugan’s exhibition “Look at you like you love me” for Photograph Magazine:
Dugan’s work has long been an exercise in queer representation, and their subjects exist on a spectrum of gender and sexual identity. In these images of individuals and couples, Dugan creates a sense of intimacy between the viewer and subject. Influenced early on by portrait photographers including Catherine Opie, Dugan suggests that presenting oneself, unedited, in front of the camera can be a radical act. “I want to tell you things; I want you to know my story,” Dugan writes in the exhibition’s wall text. “There is so much I can’t say in my photographs, though it’s all there, just below the surface, if you know what to look for.”
Browse Jess T. Dugan’s exhibition “Look at me like you love me.” at CLAMP.
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