This Is What 'Being Seen' Looks Like For Queer People Of Color
Huff PostThe Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were fueled by images that reshaped how many of us think about representation. Loftin’s career took off when he was a student at Parsons, where he worked on a photo project called “HOODED.” Its intent was to offer a counter-narrative to the widespread stereotypes about Black men in hoodies; namely, that a Black person wearing one is criminal by default. Myles Loftin These portraits all challenging tenets about the ways in which queer and/or people of color should “behave.” Especially in today’s political climates, merely “seeing” a marginalized person is not enough because the ways in which we’ve been seen historically always come with a default set of baggage. “I love creating an environment where the people that I’m photographing can see a version of themselves that they don’t normally get to see,” Wee says. Damon Dahlen/HuffPost The 25-year-old got his first big break during the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, when he took a picture of a person holding a sign that said “Power to the People,” which went viral.
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