Through solidarity we stand, work, and collaborate together. Through our continual efforts to find the ways in which we want to be perceived, we bond through those challenges. Queerness can exist in a photo just through the photo being taken of a queer. In our many forms and through our efforts to exist, queer spaces can be safe spaces. Until they aren’t. The harsh handling of the photos and through their destruction and impossibility to be a perfect representation of what queerness really is, I nod to the struggle of interpersonal relationships within our queer spaces.

Smudges, dust, scratches, dying developer are all ways that I decided that I wanted to conceptually add to this series of film photography. Through adding marks and “mistakes'' that otherwise make them “bad photos,” the addition of imperfections to the photos is an added commentary on the ways in which our society looks at fat, LGBTQ+, POC, disabled, and marginalized bodies.