One of the outtakes from my photo series documenting life in a queer family with a transgender nonbinary dad. These photos come from a place of deep love but also of political rage. I saw some beautiful photos of a breastfeeding trans dad recently posted on Twitter and the comments were truly horrible and transphobic, saying that trans people having children is child abuse. In this moment we’re in, with new laws being passed to harm trans children, to take away bodily autonomy, and to keep us from even talking about queer and trans lives, I don’t know if making pictures can do anything, but I do know that our families need to be seen.
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#mediumformat #mediumformatphotography #mamiya645 #kodakfilm #kodakportra160 #contemporaryphotography #familyphotography #portraitphotography #transdad #nonbinary #queerfamily #lgbtfamily #lgbtphotography #queerphotography #trans #filmcommunity #nycphotography #gayparents
Happy to participate in @nyfacurrent Hall of Fame auction with a photo from my “Resemblance” series. NYFA’s online auction is live now with lots of gorgeous pieces from talented artists, including works by NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows, Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program and Fiscal Sponsorship participants, and other members of our creative community. If you want to expand your art collection while supporting artists and helping NYFA make future awards, please consider bidding. My proceeds for this photo go 100% to NYFA, which has supported my work with a NYFA/NYSCA Photography Fellowship. Thanks @nyfacurrent !
You can access the online auction at /350d2155-8910-4177-bf76-cf29cb6c8940/a780d600ec2e11e9ae081db830846aa5.
🚨OPEN CALL NOW LIVE 🇺🇸 Submit to Apparently in America’s new Artist Award!
3 months left to apply ⏳
Deadline: July 4, 2026
A photography award exploring the myth and meaning of American-ness today.
“Apparently in America” invites photographers worldwide to reflect on identity, experience, and image-making in relation to the United States, through personal, political, or cultural perspectives.
One selected artist will receive a $500 award 💸 and a feature within the platform, alongside up to three honorable mentions.
We’re honored to have jurors:
- Cali M. Banks (@bankscal )
- Leah DeVun (@ldevun )
- William Camargo (@billythecamera )
- Francesca Hummler (@fransangle (
To apply: • Submit 10–20 images (series not required, cohesion encouraged) • Include your response to: “Apparently, in America…” • Apply via Picter
Let’s build an archive of what America looks like now 🗺️
#ApparentlyInAmerica #OpenCall #PhotographyAward #CallForEntries #ContemporaryPhotography
Re-upping this interview by @arose1027 that I loved so much but realized I only put in a story. Thanks so much to @museemagazine for running it and to AnnaRose for the great questions and opportunity to talk about this work!
“the images of women and LGBTQ people (among others) that get out into the world are so controlled by what corporations want us to see, especially in this time of Instagram and social media. The images that media companies promote and push us to look at are such a narrow vision of humanity, and they’re usually not the images that I care about, and they’re not the images that I want to make. I’m going to keep beating my head up against the algorithm to take the pictures that I want and to try to get them out into the world. So it might be stubbornness that inspires me.”
You can read the whole thing here /culture/2025/10/8/leah-devun-resemblance
What does it look like to build a world outside the one you’ve been given? 🌲🏳️🌈
This week, our #AIAArtistFeature is Leah DeVun (@ldevun ), whose long-term series “Lesbian Land” documents lesbian intentional communities also known as “wimmin’s lands.” Founded during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s and 80s, these rural communes were created by lesbians seeking feminist, anti-capitalist, and autonomous ways of living.
Combining documentary photographs with staged re-performances inspired by images from historic lesbian zines such as “Country Women,” “Lesbian Connection,” “Sinister Wisdom,” and “The Blatant Image,” DeVun traces a largely overlooked history of queer world-building. Lands such as Rootworks and WomanShare became sites of creative experimentation where women published their own books and journals, hosted photography workshops, and built communities grounded in collective labor and interdependence.
As DeVun reflects: “Apparently, in America, a revolution is still happening off the grid. Apparently, in America, lesbians can create their own worlds.”
By documenting these communities today, “Lesbian Land” connects past and present visions of collective living and asks what we might learn from earlier generations who tried to build alternatives to capitalism, nuclear households, and private property. 🌿
#ApparentlyInAmerica was founded by curator Francesca Hummler (@fransangle ). 🇺🇸
#QueerHistory #LesbianLand #IntentionalCommunities
Featured Submissions from the PhMuseum 2026 Photography Grant
Get a sneak peek at works submitted for the 14th edition of our initiative dedicated to discovering new voices in photography and visual storytelling.
1. Resemblance by @ldevun
2. Bereitschaft by @anazibelnik and @jakob_ganslmeier
3-4. After Many by @simon.bouillere
5. What If We Were Lovers? by Tia Liu
6. The Memetic Mirror Syndrome by @adrian_saker
This is the last call to submit your work for a chance to win €10,000 in cash prizes, solo exhibitions, and screenings at international festivals, as well as portfolio reviews and features online and in our Annual publication.
The deadline is tomorrow at 11:59 pm GMT.
Apply now via phmuseum.com/g26 (link in bio).
#phmuseum #phmuseumgrant #photoawards
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Met Cloisters last weekend! Here’s a newish photo from my trans dad series in honor of the new snow storm that might hit us on Monday ❄️😱 and to all still trying to park their cars in between the snow piles in NYC.
#filmphotography #newyorkphotography #mediumformat #mamiya645 #kodakportra #filmisnotdead #portraiture #transdad #lgbtqphotographer
Things are terrible but please join me for a moment of community at @metmuseum@metcloisters on Feb 14 at 3pm to talk about my photography, writing, and the wonderful exhibition @nancy.thebaut & Melanie Holcomb have put together!
“Contemplate the complexities of family, kinship, and gender identities alongside the artist through works on display in The Met Cloisters exhibition “Spectrum of Desire: Love Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages.”
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended.”
The Met Cloisters
Gallery 2, Fuentidueña Chapel
/events/education/talks/cloisters/free-talks/fy26/artists-on-artworks-leah-devun/
Hoping that 2026 brings safety for all who need it. Happy new year, and here’s one last dad photo for the year.
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#fineartphotography #35mmphotography #kodakfilm #portraitphotography #filmisnotdead #filmcommunity #transdad
Sharing some good news in the bad: I’m happy that @phmuseum has selected “Resemblance” as a Curators’ Pick. You can find the series on their website at /projects/resemblance.
“Right now, legislation in the United States is attacking trans people and invoking the old stereotype that they can’t be trusted around children. This series is a response – a real family affected by these politics — that doesn’t try to make our family seem respectable or normal, or to erase our differences from cis/straight society. But it does try to think about what makes a family and what it is to be a father. I hear all the time from young trans people that they don’t expect to live long enough to reach middle age. This series, in part, offers a visual testament that LGBTQ+ people can survive to adulthood, and they can create whatever kind of families they want and have kids of their own, if they want. Trans people do suffer disproportionately, but trans life can also be full of safety and care, and liberation can happen through our daily lives. These photos are about the dangers and possibilities of being looked at during a critical time for trans life.”
Many thanks to @phmuseum , the jurors, and congrats to the other artists. I’m grateful to have my work shown during this awful political time. Hoping everyone is hanging in there.
The seasons are changing and things keep moving forward. It breaks my heart a little bit, in a good way, to see our son growing too. He’s now taller than both of us, that little kid in my pictures from just two years ago.
So happy to share that I’m a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography!
Excited for the peer recognition and to be part of a program that has supported artists of all disciplines across New York State for 40 years. So thankful to have this kind of support for my work, and congrats to all the grantees!
Thank you @nyscouncilonthearts and @nyfacurrent ! Also thank you @macauleydevun@____mrs.____@rudouglass@blueskygallerypdx and everyone who has supported this project or sent encouragement. Full details at /news.
#NYSCANYFAFellows
