![Image: Eden Menta, [Untitled], 2023.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Hero-APA_Eden-Menta_Untitled_2023-200x150.jpg "IMG_1278")
Curated Guides
Queer Futures
From trans and queer youth in the Amazon to AI-generated drag queens, Queer PHOTO – a festival-within-a-festival presented by PHOTO Australia and Midsumma – brings local and international LGBTQIA+ voices to venues and public spaces across Melbourne’s western suburbs. The 14 exhibitions that form Queer PHOTO include Australian Premieres by Sunil Gupta, Clifford Prince King and FAFSWAG alongside new commissions and projects by local artists.
Elsewhere, J Davies celebrates queer resilience, survival and joy, Isabella Capezio unpacks the relationship between queerness and camouflage, Eden Menta explores the intersections of queerness and neurodiversity, and Ayman Kaake’s 99 Names is an unapologetic celebration of queer voices that looks to a hopeful future in the face of homosexuality still being a crime in at least 74 countries around the world.
![Image: Clifford Prince King, [Untitled, (m _ q)], 2017 (detail). Courtesy the artist, Gordon Robichaux, NY and STARS, LA.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LANDSCAPE_Clifford-Prince-King-Untitled-m-_-q-2017-Courtesy-the-artist-Gordon-Robichaux-NY-and-STARS-LA-copy-200x133.jpg "CP 013 001")
Image: Clifford Prince King, Untitled, (m _ q), 2017 (detail). Courtesy the artist, Gordon Robichaux, NY and STARS, LA.
![Image: Isabella Capezio, [Blind Call], 2023. Courtesy of the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/rSXFeStkeDLeh0m41Vc4m-ZNcOzpWGIkBG56uckA5OM-200x112.jpeg "E38")
![[Hero] Ayman-Kaake-2023-the wind in my shroud I](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/vMrxM4GVmF2qSkV-Sf4TE5c0dc6rOpkPvbgTzOGznPs-133x200.jpeg "[Hero] Ayman-Kaake-2023-the wind in my shroud I")
![[Hero]_‘Aue My Endless Love’ courtesy of Luce Nguyễn-Hunt](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/A0JWToWiyPqlCunGcmD3U2oR6viTYfbMeCmQy8UIOLI-200x200.jpeg "[Hero]_‘Aue My Endless Love’ courtesy of Luce Nguyễn-Hunt")
![[Hero] Zizi](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/oc-GSu6ZJ232pgSEZFu-Wqkt2Hl23_xnv4Q1WI-hJho-200x200.jpeg "[Hero] Zizi")
![[Hero] SaloteTawale](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/z6t00zD_Zbg5ua7V0H0xo-HbP4HSHBGosa9kGu8673k-200x112.jpeg "[Hero] SaloteTawale")
![[Hero] Derik-Lynch-PressShot-Artist](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Z2lWtbsJex61zJPaoSzlcw4DezMIwP4B02VB2tmAbwA-200x197.jpeg "[Hero] Derik-Lynch-PressShot-Artist")
![[Hero] 12_BlackandBlur](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sW_18qO2c3PBR58VB2NffdfCKez5GRWHBXRlIKLm3nQ-163x200.jpeg "[Hero] 12_BlackandBlur")
![[Hero] 323395-2-006v-400x500-v1](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/7vvkwg9_eB2kM862xRr3dPgO8kxy4sACTkajFdD9KEs-160x200.jpeg "[Hero] 323395-2-006v-400x500-v1")
![Image: Ahsin Ahsin, Pati Tyrell, [Navigator, Fili Tapa. Distorted Dream Land], 2019.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Navigator-Fili-Tapa-Distorted-Dream-Lands-2019_2000px_Thumb-200x138.jpg "Navigator, Fili Tapa, Distorted Dream Lands, 2019_2000px_Thumb")
![Image: [Pati Tyrell, Jaimie Waititi, Tapuaki Helu, Pacific Bizzare] | Tapu, 2019.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FAFSWAG-Thumbnail-200x123.jpg "FAFSWAG-Thumbnail")
![[Hero] TBWWWTB10](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HcxVV9VPcekFD0gzKUbMm5BcikoCOoq1uosMAfU6wW0-198x200.jpeg "[Hero] TBWWWTB10")
![[Hero] Karla Dickens_Looking at you VI 2017_Inkjet print_100 × 100 cm_Edition 3 or 60 × 60 cm_Edition 7 (1)](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HwAapBCz0OZxKMzTgUvpKz0z72-20ytkKK1JIybV1Us-200x200.jpeg "[Hero] Karla Dickens_Looking at you VI 2017_Inkjet print_100 × 100 cm_Edition 3 or 60 × 60 cm_Edition 7 (1)")
![Image: Asafe Ghalib from the series [Queer Immigrants], 2019. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Asafe-Ghalib-thumbnail-200x123.jpg "Asafe-Ghalib-thumbnail")
Curated Guides
Indigenous Futures
Placing Indigenous thinking front and centre, these self-determined imaginings are key to an Indigenous-led future.
Technological Futures
Emerging technological developments are changing the way we see the future and approach image-making.
![Image: Sara Oscar, [A hyperrealistic photograph of a pregnant Thai woman, tall woman in suit, falling luggage, chaos, airport parking lot, theatrical gestures, falling], 2023. AI generated image. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/l9UYRnEJVCIJ2HBqKN0N4QuUf978vQEZBVd77CJVIgo-200x200.jpeg "E74")
Social Futures
As fights for human rights persist across the globe, questions endure: who has the power in society?
Queer Futures
From trans and queer youth in the Amazon to AI-generated drag queens.