Untitled
- Untitled
- from the series The Shelter/The Street
- M. reads, and L. gets his hair braided, while S. talks to her mother, before lights out at Sylvia’s Place, an emergency shelter for LGBTQ youth, in Midtown Manhattan.
Sheet: 16 15/16 × 21 15/16 in. (43 × 55.7 cm)
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Samantha Box beautifully describes her complex, layered image: “This photograph is a record the life—in 2006—of Sylvia’s Place, an emergency shelter for LGBTQ youth that was located in basement of the Metropolitan Community Church, in Midtown Manhattan. . .. Despite the short time that they were together, and the relative transient lengths of their stays, the young people who called the shelter ‘home’ formed intense bonds, creating a safe space for themselves and their community, caring for each other at a time in the face of crushing societal discrimination based on the intersection of their race, class, gender and sexuality.”
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
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