Looking for participants in Sydney & Melbourne!
The Identity Project, an international photography project that explores the labels the LGBTQ community uses when defining their gender and sexuality, is coming to Australia in December 2022.
This photo project was launched in January 2014 by Sarah Deragon, a San Francisco-based portrait photographer, when she posted a photo of herself on Facebook with the terms ‘Queer Femme’ underneath the photo and asked for participants from her community to come and be photographed. Within a month she had over 100 people photographed and folks chose words like Dandy, Unicorn, GenderQueer, Pansexual and Lesbro. The photo project went viral and Sarah was able to travel to New York, Portland, Austin, St. Petersburg, Russia and most recently she photographed the LGBTQ comunity in Taiwan.
Sarah is now seeking participants for two photoshoots in Australia - one will be in Sydney on Saturday, December 10th and one will be in Melbourne on Saturday, December 17th.
The Identity Project resonates with people because the photo project pushes up against the preconceived notions of what it is to be LGBTQ in today's society. Not only are the portraits striking, the participants in the project are playing with language, making up entirely new terms (transgenderqueer or inbetweener) and showing pride in their complex and ever changing identities.
Sarah is committed to reflecting the beautiful diversity of our LGBTQ communities and is actively seeking participants who are POC, trans*, bisexual, youth, elders, disabled, immigrant and otherwise identify as outside of the mainstream gay and lesbian culture. Anyone that identifies underneath the LGBTQIA spectrum is welcome to participate!
If you know of an organization or location that can host The Identity Project for the photo shoot, please send an email to sarahderagon@gmail.com or use the box below to pass on the information.
Interested in participating? Please fill out the form below and you will be notified when we have secured a location for folks to be photographed. Thank you!