Joel Landy, 28, a participant in a National Institutes of Health study on the effects of ultra-processed diets, wakes up in a metabolic chamber on August 14, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Drag king Chase Lounge, dedicated to creating raunchy, fun, and COVID-safe drag spaces in Los Angeles that welcome transgender and lesbian audiences, performs on June 10, 2024, at “Pink Pony Club,” a show he hosts featuring an all-sapphic lineup. The photo is part of my photo essay, “‘Queer and Trans Utopia’: The Ritual and Reimagination of Drag.”
published in Fruitslice
Two participants of the 22nd Taiwan Pride watch the parade under an umbrella as light rain falls on October 26, 2024. This year’s Pride — held a day after Taiwan’s sixth Trans March — drew more than 180,000 attendees, including Vice President Bikhim Hsiao and reigning RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Nymphia Wind.
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Geo Bradley, an LA-based Canadian screenwriter who explores psychological themes such as desire, obsession, and repression in her horror screenplays, peers out from behind a gate in Westwood on April 15, 2023. Bradley often situates her characters in clustered spaces, observing how they navigate interpersonal conflicts as the close quarters heighten tensions between them.
Facing law enforcement stationed down the hill, UCLA students gather on Tongva Steps to protect the pro-Palestinian encampment on May 1, 2024, the day after counter-protesters attacked the camp with fireworks, pepper spray, and metal barriers. The week-long encampment was swept by police the morning after.
Three drag performers parade in Taiwan’s sixth Trans March, which attracted 2,500 attendees on October 25, 2024, the evening before the 22nd Taiwan Pride. The night began at the 228 Peace Memorial Park, where Taiwan’s first Pride was held in 2003.
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Attendees of the Red Nation International Film Festival, a celebration of Native American narratives in cinema, gather at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills following the world premiere of “On Sacred Ground” on November 12, 2022. The 85-minute film is inspired by protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which traverses the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
The Iranian Student Group and the Persian fraternity at UCLA co-hosted a rally advocating for the freedom and rights of women in Iran on International Women’s Day in 2023.
Violet Chachki, winner of the seventh season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” performs at LA Pride in the Park festival in June 2023.
UCLA academic workers joined around 48,000 academic workers across the 10 UC campuses in striking for improved working conditions and wages on November 14, 2022.
A group of people converses outside a hardware store in Yunlin, Taiwan, on April 19, 2018. The photo is part of my 2018 solo exhibition at Vicino Coffee, Taiwan, titled “Light Sources in Taiwan 臺灣的光源,” which explored the unique and everyday roles of light across the country.
Norma Gamboa, holding bundles of flowers, stands in front of the Balloons Away stall in The Original Los Angeles Flower Market on February 7, 2020, deciding which balloons to buy for her daughter’s basketball game.
On a rainy day in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, neon signboards light up the road as lines of cars stop for the red light on November 3, 2017. The photo is part of my 2018 solo exhibition at Vicino Coffee, Taiwan, titled “Light Sources in Taiwan 臺灣的光源,” which explored the unique and everyday roles of light across the country.