Cover of Not Going Shopping Community Newspaper, Brighton edition
- Title
- Cover of Not Going Shopping Community Newspaper, Brighton edition
- Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Anthony Luvera
- Queer in Brighton
- Contributor
- Anthony Luvera
- Format
- .jpg
- Creator
- Anthony Luvera
- Spatial Coverage
- Brighton & Hove
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Attribution - Non Commercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International License
- Temporal Coverage
- 2014
Description:
Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. His photographic work has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals internationally; he has designed education programmes, facilitated workshops and given lectures for public education departments and community projects across the UK. Anthony collaborated with Queer in Brighton on our first commissioned project ‘Not Going Shopping’ to explore the lives of LGTBQ+ people in Brighton.
Anthony invited eleven participants to meet him and bring photographs that told their story, and they were encouraged to consider what being queer means to them, and to photograph their experiences and the things they are interested in. The group met regularly to discuss their work and share photographs, and created self-portraits in a photo booth on the North Laine, which led to discussions about photography and identity. Anthony notes that “the private and intimate space of this equipment, usually related to the production of images for official purposes of identification, seemed a particularly potent lens through which to look at ourselves. We took these ideas back to the workshop to create our own photo booth, queer it, and then explode out with a final portrait made on the streets of Brighton.”
Anthony said of the project: “the prospect of creating this work seemed to me to offer a useful way to further my inquiry into participation and self-representation with groups of marginalized individuals, and at the same time provide an opportunity to confront my own views of queerness as a gay man… Images play a powerful role in the stories we tell about ourselves and the histories told about us. Not Going Shopping expresses the points of view of the participants and myself about what it is to be Queer in Brighton.”
This is a digital reproduction of Cover of the 'Not Going Shopping' community newspaper, Brighton edition, 2014, from 'Not Going Shopping' by Anthony Luvera, 2013 – 2014.
Anthony invited eleven participants to meet him and bring photographs that told their story, and they were encouraged to consider what being queer means to them, and to photograph their experiences and the things they are interested in. The group met regularly to discuss their work and share photographs, and created self-portraits in a photo booth on the North Laine, which led to discussions about photography and identity. Anthony notes that “the private and intimate space of this equipment, usually related to the production of images for official purposes of identification, seemed a particularly potent lens through which to look at ourselves. We took these ideas back to the workshop to create our own photo booth, queer it, and then explode out with a final portrait made on the streets of Brighton.”
Anthony said of the project: “the prospect of creating this work seemed to me to offer a useful way to further my inquiry into participation and self-representation with groups of marginalized individuals, and at the same time provide an opportunity to confront my own views of queerness as a gay man… Images play a powerful role in the stories we tell about ourselves and the histories told about us. Not Going Shopping expresses the points of view of the participants and myself about what it is to be Queer in Brighton.”
This is a digital reproduction of Cover of the 'Not Going Shopping' community newspaper, Brighton edition, 2014, from 'Not Going Shopping' by Anthony Luvera, 2013 – 2014.
Not Going Shopping Community Newspaper Cover
