Bio: Jordan Reznick is a transgender photographer living and working in San Francisco. They develop photographic projects within their own communities, working with the entangled agency and vulnerability of the photographer with their sitters. Their Queer Babes project has been exhibited at Aperture Gallery and Handwerker Gallery in New York, Portland Art Museum in Oregon, Romer Young Gallery and Dickerman Prints in San Francisco. Forthcoming exhibitions include the Hubbell Street Galleries at CCA in San Francisco. Reznick teaches photography practice, history and theory at San Francisco Art Institute and is completing a PhD in Visual Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. Their academic research involves the history of vernacular photography, modernism and race in the United States. They earned an MFA in Photography and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, and a BFA in Photography from New York University.

Project Description: The Queer Babes portraiture project pays homage to everyday queer and transgender people. Reznick's subjects are friends, lovers, acquaintances and strangers, photographed in or around their homes. The project takes inspiration from the vernacular tradition of formal portraiture—a form that is both aspirational and affectionate. It is a tradition of putting everything that we would like to say about ourselves, our identity, our status, our being, into one very carefully considered portrait. Sitting before the camera, there is a hope that we might seen for who we are and who we hope to become—reflections that are also central forming one’s gender identity and maintaining it against the standards of mainstream society.

Jordan Reznick - http://www.jordanreznick.com/