photo_talks: What Moves You?
Pablo Lerma
A Frame of Darkness is an image-based and textual project that evolves around the concepts of representation, memory, and queer identity in relation to the history of photography and its manifestation through vernacular photography and archives. There is a lack of representation of gay individuals and their families in the history of photography; the queer community has been, visually, underrepresented for decades. This body of work focuses on the creation of a counter-narrative for those erased identities.
Allen Frame leads the conversation and Q&A after the presentation.
Pablo Lerma is an image-based artist, publisher and researcher living in Amsterdam. His artistic practice involves researching, collecting, and generating image-based materials and archives addressing concepts such as time, change, representation, and counter-narrative. His work takes various forms from photographic installations to publications. His work has been exhibited at PhotoEspaña ’19, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Flowers Gallery (New York), Konstanet (Estonia), Centro Huarte (Spain), New York University, Fotoweek D.C., SCAN International Festival of Photography (Spain), La Fábrica (Spain), and Fundació Foto Colectania (Spain) among others. His work has been featured at the Unseen Platform (Netherlands), British Journal for Photography, Ain´t Bad Magazine, New York Foundation for the Arts, PDN Online, and PhotoInter China.
Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery. He has released four books of photography: Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever, (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour, (Kehrer, 2001). Currently, his work appears in the exhibition Mexichrome at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. His two-person exhibition Lost and Found was presented at Soft Network in New York, in November. He is a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and CEC Artslink’s Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, which he co-curated with Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery in 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), the International Center of Photography in New York, and for StrudelmediaLive.
Allen teaches“The Life You’re In: The Joy and Pathos of Autobiography”
for StrudelmediaLive.
allenframe.net
