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Brandon Dean led a series of meetings between students from The Attic LGBT Youth Center and LGBT seniors from the Anderson Apartments, focusing on intersectionality such as race, class, and gender identity. Acknowledging the depth of history and experience at Anderson, residents also had a chance to share their stories with the Attic students. Dean led zine-making workshops during these gatherings and recorded conversations between youth and seniors. He also created a “master zine” with pocket sleeves that catalogs student and senior produced zines.
Dean’s contribution was distributed at the project dedication as a companion to the portrait series. Through storytelling, history lessons, and art-making stronger relationships were built between the older and younger generations.
“We all have seen utopian visions of the future in a variety of mediums throughout modern history. In retrospect, these are always reflective more of the time that envisioned it than of the future that eventually comes to pass. This work is about how those visions fail to capture how dazzling and complicated those envisioned times end up being in reality.
These science-fiction utopias that capture popular imagination often leave behind real physical remnants in art and design that were meant for a time that never fully arrived. I wanted to make room for a type of vision that sees Black and brown bodies, Queer bodies, large bodies, and altered bodies as fitting a future more based in the immense complexity of real life.”
Full Color Hardbound Photography Book
First Edition
108 Pages
7” x 10”
Hardcover, Case Bound
Smooth hardbound matte cover with lush matte interior.
Printed in the United States in the year of 2021.
Introduction: Brandon Dean in-conversation with Kyle Quinn.
All photographs by Brandon Dean
Design, Layout & Introduction by Kyle Quinn
Published by Raw Meat Collective
Text Editing by Sarah Leach