By Our Nature gallery exhibition at Hopkins Hall Gallery

“By Our Nature” is a photography based exhibition that explores the relationship between queer identities and the natural world. “By Our Nature” asks “what does it mean to be natural?” What privileges are awarded to those deemed natural? And how do we relate to our own natures when the natural world around us is deteriorating? Through large format DSLR landscape photography, queer portraiture, and integrated queer landscape photography, “By Our Nature” seeks to ‘naturalize’ queerness and to assert queer people’s right to take up space. The photographs in this series play with color, form and location. They build off of principles of classical portrait photography, draw from lineages of queer archives, and ask the audience to consider what’s next, both for queer Americans and for American nature.