A document of queer talent on the cusp of success.
Given photographer Ethan James Green’s impressive CV, shooting covers for, it’s easy to forget that he only began photographing professionally as recently as 2015. But with the release of his first monograph this month, published by the legendary photography publishing house Aperture, he’s taking us back to where it all began: a bar in Chelsea, where he spotted actress Hari Nef and asked if he could photograph her.
Nef obliged, showing up to be photographed at Corlears Hook Park on the Lower East Side. “I felt vulnerable shooting, especially in public,” explains Nef in the foreword she wrote for the book. “It might have been my fifth time in front of the camera.” It wouldn’t be long until Green was shooting for Miu Miu and Alexander McQueen, and Nef would be the face of Gucci.
Slowly, she began bringing more and more of her friends to be photographed by Green — a ragtag mix of downtown club kids, nascent fashion designers and trans or gender non-conforming models and artists. Almost by accident, the impromptu series ended up becoming something much greater: a bracingly honest document of what it means to be young and creative in 21st century New York, and a window into a disappearing world.
“I just feel more calm when I’m with those kids,” says Green in an interview with Michael Shulman. “I found the people that I can relate to, being different back home, and then coming here, and then meeting all these people and realising, ‘Oh my God, you were there and I was here, looking and dreaming about the same things.’”
Many of the figures captured by Green have since gone on to significantly greater heights: there’s Dara, the model who has since walked for Marc Jacobs and
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