Phyllis Christopher’s photographs document a fight for sexual, artistic and political freedom
“It felt like I was taking pictures for the first time, which as a photographer is really exciting,” says Christopher over the phone from Gateshead, England, where she has been living on and off for the past 15 years. “I remember the first time I took a picture of my first girlfriend in the 80s. I got a shiver up my spine because I felt like there needed to be these images out there. And that feeling has stayed with me.
The historic absence of mainstream representations of lesbian life became the “predominant thrust” behind Christopher’s work. Through her fearless, intimate and tender lens, she bore witness to her community as they fought for sexual, artistic and political freedom, capturing the everyday moments of protest, desire and joy. At a time when there was so much fear and misinformation surrounding queer sex, her gaze was unblinking.
“The Aids epidemic definitely informed the work,” she says. “Some of my work is very graphic and it’s because we needed to talk about sex because people were dying and we didn't know why. We needed to be very open about sex and very articulate about it.”The work Christopher created during this time – much of it published by lesbian erotic magazinewhere she became photo editor in 1991 – explored authentically lesbian desires, fetishes and gender identities.
Over three decades after Christopher started photographing, her work is getting the mainstream recognition it deserves. Her first, opened at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead last month, and it coincides with a
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