People Like Us is a photobook by Holly Revell, exploring trans, non-binary and GNC (gender non-conforming) identities and experience from AFAB (assigned female at birth) perspectives.

It’s an archive, it’s a photography book, it’s a collection of stories.

Created over 7 years, the book embraces 58 people from a rich variety of backgrounds and gender diversity. Layered with individual and collective experience, it indulges in positive and joyful representation of these personalities.

The book includes 370 photographs, over 18,000 words of participants’ quotes and writings plus a specially commissioned text by hotpencil press.

BIO
Holly is an artist photographer who makes collaborative portraits with fellow queer folk exploring transforming identities.

They have been working on their current project ‘People Like Us’ since 2017, recording trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary identities and experience. A zine featuring a series of portraits and quotes from the project was commissioned by Shout Queer Arts Festival in 2020.

Other notable projects include 'DARKROOM'; photo-booth installations at art & club events (2010-14), ‘Transformations’, photos made with performers reflecting the transition from drag to self in one long-exposure (2016), ‘David Hoyle: Parallel Universe’ (photo-book 2017) & DARC (documentation action research collective 2016-19).

Holly has made a significant contribution to the documentation of queer performance and its icons in London, creating a record of a specific movement and the community surrounding it, which is archived at Bishopsgate Institute.


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