Curriculum

ntimacy might be the biggest risk with the greatest reward, in life as in photography. Or so you might think looking at the work of Elle Pérez, whose striking images about love, desire, physical transformation, and emotional vulnerability have won wide acclaim in recent years, from a 2019 commission by the Public Art Fund in New York to a presentation in the 2022 Venice Biennale. Pérez grew up in the Bronx and photographed at underground queer spaces, making an indelible record of now-vanished venues. Today,