The Trans and Queer Framer Portrait Project is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersection of Queerness and land care.
Funded in part through UVM Agroecology Institute, this project includes a workshop series taking place on queer-owned farms throughout the Northeast to produce Anthotype portraits of Queer and Trans farmers.
Anthotypes are a sustainable photo process that uses pigment from plant matter as the base for a light-sensitive photographic emulsion. In using this process to create photographic portraits of trans and queer farmers, we’re not only collaborating with the land but actively challenging the ways the white heteropatriarchy has influenced our idea of ‘The Farmer’ as an archetype, and how this influence has subconsciously biased how we think about land itself.
