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on Creative Book: Lived Experience: Delphine Diallo's powerful portraits of LGBTQ+ people aged over 50
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Feb 2, 2020
Photographer and visual artist Delphine Diallo hopes to bring them to light in a new series on LGBTQ+ people aged over fifty. This is a generation that has witnessed incredible tragedy and triumph, a generation that has lived in fear of loving who they love and who has been ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, but who has also witnessed the extraordinary progress in LGBTQ+ rights, visibility, and acceptance that has taken place over the past fifty years.
Comprised of over sixty powerful portraits of people from all walks of life, together with interviews conducted by Delphine, Lived Experience honours and celebrates their rich, complex, and varied lives, offering unforgettable stories and intimate reflections on love and loss, on family and friendship, on building community, and the importance of remembering the past and the LGBTQ+ movement's radical roots.
Available in a new book, Lived Experience: Reflections on LGBTQ Life, is a sweeping picture of how decades of activism have impacted the everyday lives of so many and acts as a reminder that the fight for equality is not yet over.
"The journeys of the people in this book showed the beauty of life, from overcoming loneliness, pain, sadness, and loss to accepting who they really are and acknowledging their strength and determination when it comes to the way they have chosen to live," Delphine says. "I feel so honoured to have had the opportunity to hear these voices. Their words are a reminder of how acceptance and forgiveness, without judgment, can raise the consciousness of society."
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