While the Apocalypse – Blog

Before her untimely death in April this year, aged only 58, Mexican-American photographer Laura Aguilar had cemented herself not only as a pioneer of Chicana photography, but as an artist who treated her subjects with a tenderness nearly unrivalled in contemporary image-making. Composed of pensive studies of love, the body, and the natural world, Aguilar’s work was not simply about creating arresting images, but about celebrating queer culture and marginalized voices within the wider narrative of American art and photography.

In this profile of the late great image-maker, filmmaker Adinah Dancyger examines the life and work of a figure who stood at the forefront of radical photography, capturing a side of America rarely before seen with such honesty.

“Her gaze is unfazed but not exploitative; tender but not sentimental”