After 18 months of living through a pandemic, a new civil rights movement, and various stages of lockdown, this Pride month marks an important moment to pause and celebrate the resilience and progress of the LGBT+ community following an unprecedented year—but also a long-overdue reconvening of the queer chosen families that lie at its beating heart.
At the end of the day, I want to put work out into the world that reflects who I am and where I come from.” This Pride month, then, Martínez decided to turn his lens to his immediate surroundings: New York City.
Loosely inspired by Juergen Teller’s iconic Go-Sees series—a book of portraits of models off-duty between castings in Paris originally published in 1999—Martínez’s portraits capture a new generation with the same spontaneous, off-the-cuff energy.
As Martinez’s images and the quotes from the models who populate them make immediately clear, Pride month may come just once a year, but for the LGBTQ+ community, the joy of connection is something that extends far beyond this increasingly mainstreamed celebration.
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