JJ Levine
Canadian photographer (born 1983)
JJ Levine is a Montreal-based Canadian artist working in photographic portraiture. His work questions traditional gender identity roles through posed photographs of queer subjects in domestic spaces and situations.
Work
Levine is best known for their photographic series Queer Portraits, Alone Time, and Switch. Queer Portraits is a photography monograph of portraits featuring Levine's family and friends in different domestic settings over the years 2006–2015. The portraits were taken in selected and arranged settings with studio lighting. The use of saturated colors and textures gives clues as to the character of the subjects, who are photographed with a neutral expression. Subsequent works in a similar style include Family (2016) and Intimates (2018).
Alone Time is a series of photographs with the same model depicting both the female and male members of a couple. Levine says of this series:By demonstrating an individual body’s capacity to engagingly and believably embody two genders, my project questions the mainstream depiction of binary gender roles. This conceptual decision to double the gender presentation of a single body challenges normative ideas surrounding gender presentation and instead implies that gender expression can be fluid and multiple.
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