Pieter Henket: Birds of Mexico City
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These stunning and provocative black and white portraits of a new generation of gay, trans, and street performers in Mexico City taken by queer and fine art photographer Pieter Henket express the acute vulnerability and strength of their individual ways of breaking bonds that constrain their true identities. >conservative culture and how that intersects with their queer lifestyle and identity today.

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These stunning and provocative black and white portraits of a new generation of gay, trans, and street performers in Mexico City taken by queer and fine art photographer Pieter Henket express the acute vulnerability and strength of their individual ways of breaking bonds that constrain their true identities. >conservative culture and how that intersects with their queer lifestyle and identity today.
Autorenporträt
Pieter Henket is a Dutch photographer living and working in New York City. He is known for a photographic style that takes inspiration from the 17th century Dutch Golden Age of painting. His notable work includes photographing Congolese acting out their mythologies in the Congo rainforest for the photo series and book, Congo Tales (Random House, 2018). His previous books include The Way I See It (Uitgeverij De Kunst, 2013) and Stars to the Sun (Lannoo Publishers/Racine, 2014). Pieter is also known for celebrity portraiture, including, notably, shooting the cover of Lady Gaga's debut album, The Fame. Pieter's photography has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is held in the museum's permanent collection; the Museum de Fundatie in The Netherlands; and the Museum Barberini in Germany. His work has been included in numerous private and museum collections around the world, including the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Pieter's Congo Tales photo series was also the main presentation of the Democratic Republic of The Congo at the 2021 World Expo in Dubai. Renata Juárez Huerdo - Writer, poet, and cultural entrepreneur based in Mexico City. Her work centers on identity, gender, and cultural memory. She is the author of Muxelandia, a photo-essay on the muxes of Juchitán, and co-founder of Tradición del Comal, a culinary initiative that won the 2020 Food and Travel Resilience Award. She is currently active in programming at Casa de la Literatura Gabriel García Márquez and hosts immersive cultural experiences in Mexico City. She has 7,000 followers on Instagram. The book already includes original poems written by the portrait subjects, developed in collaboration with and guided by Renata. This co-authorship deepens the narrative dimension and brings a direct, personal voice into the work.