BIO
Ash is a queer photographic artist who will receive their BFA in Photography and Related Media from FIT in 2026. Since 2020, they have exclusively photographed LGBTQ+ community members. Their work has been recently featured in The Sex Gap Zine, Sprout Society Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the Museum at FIT. Ash also has a semi-permanent exhibition on view at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Bus Terminal in Manhattan.
Ash’s pronouns are they/them and he/him.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Of all the flavors of queer that I’ve met through my highschool years and into adulthood, no two expressed themselves exactly the same. As we grow together I get to watch them blossom into their happiest, truest selves as they do the same for me. My photographic inspiration comes from my real world experiences after turning 21 and gaining access to bars, clubs, and other spaces where my peers and elders could be discovered.
Like my friends and others in my community, my work is vibrantly colorful and experimental, emphasizing queer beauty being a universal concept within the world I’m creating. My main photographic subjects are my friends and other queers that have crossed paths with me along the way with the goal to portray them the way I see them; radiating a joyous light that can only come from true self acceptance. My post production process references body and gender dysphoria with focused repetition on body parts that other gender-nonconforming people may have sensitivities about, then using them to enhance the photograph and turn it into an attractive spectacle.