Phyllis Christopher

Please join me for the closing party of 'INTIMATES'.... All are welcome to join the Curating Art MA and Contemporary Art History MA's presentation of their exhibition 'Intimates' in the Hatton Gallery. Date: Thursday 30 April 5:00 - 7:00pm. Location: Hatton Gallery Refreshments will be provided. I forward to seeing you!

Some new work! from 'Body in Peril' sitting along side some older work at 'Intimates' show, @hatton_newcastle with artists @maisiecousins Maisie Cousins and @yumnaaa Yumna Al-Arashi. Curating students from Newcastle University have placed our work in conversation to explore notions of the body, touch and intimacy and they've done a brilliant job...closing party 30th of April, 5-7pm. Photos from yesterday's visit of Mia @ma.iec , a brilliant colaborater for 'Body in Perl'

@mxviv Mx Vivian Bond posted a photo from this 1990 engagement photo shoot with ElvisHerselvis @leigh.crow quite a coincidence as this is currently in our 'What is Family' show at Blyth Pavilion. Kate Sweeney @thumbprod created this gorgeous loop! X

A great opportunity to see some of my archive and the new work contributed by the lgbtq+ community of Blyth. Come and say hi to Kate Sweeney and me and leave your thoughts on contemporary queer family! We will be at Blyth Pavilion the 25th &26th of Feb from 11-2pm X

So excited to meet and sign a book for Kate Osborne MP!! We are at the international lgbt #safertobeme summit in our own Gateshead!! Beginning to use my photo archive as a starting point for projects and exhibitions and it's great to be here to talk about it. @kateosbornemp

Hello South Tyneside friends! I'm running a series of fun workshops with @thumbprod exploring 'Queer Family'. Sessions are open to people living in South Tyneside- be lovely to see you! Starting this Sunday the 12th... Gorgeous poster by Kate Sweeney..!! @theculturalspring @seachangecic

Hey all...Does anyone have a copy of this book that they'd be willing to sell me? I'm wanting to use it as part of the family recipe aspect of using my archive to discuss manifestations of queer family...@Lawrence_schimel @cleis_press 'Food for Life...and Other Dish, edited by Lawrence Schimel, published by Cleis press, 1996 Who doesn't need to know what's in Pat Califia's politically incorrect pot roast?...I do remember that I had a total blast shooting this cover...any help locating a copy is greatly appreciated... #wearefamily #archiveunderthestairs #joanjettblakk #joanjettblakkforpresident

📸 Our beautiful photo exhibit is still up at SF LGBT Center @sflgbtcenter !! Opened as part of Lesbian Visibility Week 2025, "Through the Lens: SF '90s Lesbian Culture" showcases the works of three iconic photographers from Curve Magazine: Chloe Atkins, Jessica Tanzer @jessica_tanzer , and Phyllis Christopher @phyllischristopher ! The show is co-presented by The Curve Foundation @curvefdn and SF LGBT Center #curvemagazine #photography #queerphotography #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbian #queer #pride #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbt

Me photographing one of my heroes Peter Tatchell on Saturday @cooper_gallery_djcad for the 12-hour sit-in. I also got to meet Ajamu X seen here in discussion with me and Laura Guy. What an inspiring day! Thank you to everyone who let me photograph them... Thanks to Laura Guy for photo 1 Thanks to @coco_sollfrank for photo 2

#theignorantartschool

12 Hour Acting Up 🟣 Contributor Spotlight 🟣 Phyllis Christopher, Ajamu X, Laura Guy Darkroom/Studio Intimacies: A Photographic Encounter with Phyllis Christopher and Ajamu X In-conversation Phyllis Christopher and Ajamu X will reflect on affinities between their practices and the erotics and politics of photographic pedagogy. The conversation will be chaired by Laura Guy and will follow the staging of a temporary portrait studio by the photographers for 12 Hour Acting Up. Biographies Phyllis Christopher’s body of work documenting lesbian visibility, sexuality and protest, Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2002, (edited by Laura Guy) was published by Book Works in 2022. She lives in Gateshead where she conducts workshops, co-facilitates a community darkroom at the NewBridge project, and continues to document the LGBTQ+ community. @phyllischristopher Ajamu X (FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His visual philosophy engages with the materiality of the Darkroom and the sensual material, form and aesthetics of print. He is known for unapologetically celebrating erotic black queer bodies, sex, desire and the politics of pleasure. His studio-based constructed imagery poses the imagination, fiction, play, beauty and sensuality in opposition to staid notions of identity thinking and representation. @ajamustudios Laura Guy is a Reader in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at the Glasgow School of Art. Her writing on queer art and photography has been published widely. She is editor of Phyllis Christopher’s artist book Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Politics, 1988-2003 (Book Works, 2022) and co-editor with Glyn Davies of Queer Print in Europe (Bloomsbury, 2022). With Fiona Anderson, Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon she is currently co-editing an issue of British Art Studies dedicated to Queer Art in Britain since the 1980s. ____________________ 📍 Evening 6.15–8pm ____________________ #TheIgnorantArtSchool 12 Hour Acting Up Saturday 1 February, 2025 11am–11pm 🎟️ Tickets Free, open to all Link in bio #DJCADcommunity #DundeeUniCulture @creativescots @djcad_uod

'Reclaim the Night' March Newcastle, 30th November 2024... I did it..we all did it! I'm as stiff as a poker today but I ran around on Saturday night with my camera equipment like the first 'Take Back the Night' 35 years ago. I've done many street demonstrations but wanted to take this opportunity to compare this to one of my first in 1989...I'm quite happy with the results, and had the time of my life! Thank you to @wewagc @tradesunioncongress @ithappensherencl @rape_crisis_tn