Damien Frost’s portraits of LGBTQ+ people in isolation are works of art

To what extent has the impossibility to take part in social gatherings stimulated your creativity?account are taken in clubs and at parties, documenting the more extreme and colourful styling of London’s alternative queer nightlife. When it was first announced that club nights were being cancelled as a result of social distancing I realised that I was not going to be able to continue to capture this culture in the same way in which I’ve always been used to doing.

Above all, I wanted to highlight and help promote the visibility of this sector of society, which has had their career and livelihood severely affected by this situation. Most of the people I’m photographing work in the nightlife economy, so the nature of such jobs implies that they don’t have the job security necessary to go on to furlough. In the current situation, even just having enough money to pay rent, let alone eat, is a serious concern for many people out there.

Sometimes the subject walks me around their flat, showing me different rooms before we both decide what would be the best place to set up the shot. The greatest obstacle is dealing with variable internet connection quality issues, as the video connection can cause the image to be overly pixelated. But this is all part of the process.

Around the same time when I started the project, I noticed that many had started live streaming events, or doing online make-up tutorials. So I was able to capture people before or after they were doing a show, or while they were also ‘attending’ a live stream party and getting dressed up for that. In that sense, the documentary nature of the project has partly survived. What has been amazing for me was to be able to reach out to a wider global audience.

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