American Photography 42 Winners

Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice' (NPR Picture Show)

My project is titled, “Hidden Once, Hidden Twice,” a long term visual documentation chronicling the lives of senior lesbian partnerships across the U.S., fulfilling a severely underrepresented visual archive of LGBTQ+ history in this country. As the younger LGBTQ+ community has become heavily documented in recent years, there is a gap in this specific demographic of marginalized women. By focusing on older generations of queer women in love, it will provide a modern case study of how these resilient and courageous partnerships survived decades of obstacles to arrive in the present day-together.