Invisible Photo Exhibit of LGBTQ Images On Display at Strange Loop Gallery

January 24th, 2013

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New York photographer Samantha Box has dedicated herself to documenting New York City’s community of homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth since 2005.

Box’s ongoing photo project, “INVISIBLE” has received the Anthropographia Award for Photography and Human Rights by En Foco and the New York Foundation for the Arts. The collection will be exhibited at the Strange Loop Gallery on Orchard Street in SOHO from Febrary 7 through the 28th.

“The young people [who] I photograph are some of the most resilient people [who] I have ever met: despite facing societal

BlogPost.INVISIBLEexhibit animosity of homo- and transphobia, and the burden of a broken system that conspires to keep them homeless. They continuously work for a future where their talents and intellect can be used, where they have a home, a family and a life of stability,” said Samantha Box, on Time/Lightbox in June 2012.

“INVISIBLE’ has been widely showcased in American galleries, including The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York, in 2010 and as part of the Open Society Institute’s “Moving Walls #18” exhibition.

For more information, go to: www.strangeloopgallery.com

The S T R A N G E L O O P G A L L E R Y is located at:
27 Orchard Street (between Canal and Hester Streets)
New York, NY 10002
Take the D and B Subway lines to Grand Street or the F train to East Broadway
347.963.3881

-Anissa Stocks

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