THE QUEER CREATIVE CLASS

Angal Field Photographer

hether lounging along the Pacific coastline or cradled within cluttered New York apartments, photographer Angal Field’s cast of their queer and trans friends is held by a tender gaze. One subject, in a work titled that exhibited at Field’s debut solo, appears reclining shirtless below a colorful clothesline. A warm, sunlit glow lends the image an intimate feel, as if daydreamed into existence. Anchored by self-portraits documenting their own transition, Field’s compositions are a compass for the many ways of existing within a body. “I’m interested in the mythos of the coastline, as a point of epic departure and homecoming, as it dovetails with a history of queer cruising,” they say. “My, and they see filmmaking as the confluence of their verbal and visual efforts. They are currently working as a stills photographer on the set of an Eliza Hittman production as they prepare to enter an MFA program in film production.—COCO ROMACK