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.
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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 an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in New York, where his work is represented by Gitterman Gallery. In 2025, his solo exhibition Amalfi was presented at College of Charleston and his photographs exhibited at Kupper-Modern in Zurich and at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. He has released four books of photography, including Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour (Kehrer, 2001). He has also been the curator of many exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, co-curated with Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, in 2023, and Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, 2020-21. He received the Rome Prize from the American Academy in 2017/18. He teaches photography at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, International Center of Photography, and for Strudelmedialive.com
Allen teaches"The Life You're In: The Joy and Pathos of Autobiography"
for StrudelmediaLive.
allenframe.net
