Artist: Omari Simmons
Photographer: MCP Photo | McKenna C Poe

Makeup: Adrienne Gagnier

Models: Omari Simmons and Ian Dominguez Ball

BTS Photography & Assistant: Perla Martinez

Location: Between Space Studio

 

NITROGEN: a colorless, odorless gas making up 78% of Earth's atmosphere, essential for life as a component of amino acids, proteins, and DNA. 

 

Artist’s Statement: Liquid nitrogen becomes the weather of this world: cold, blinding, and persistent, obscuring what is closest and most desired. The landscape is emotional as much as physical, shaped by tension, rawness and love forced to exist in half-light. The fog represents the forces that have consumed all forms of intimacy. Yet authenticity persists. Breath cuts through the mist. Touch creates warmth where none should exist. This work honors queer devotion as wild, aching, and unsanctioned; a love, bond and openness that does not need clarity to be real, diverse and the only courage to keep pushing through the fog.

 

Proceeds of the prints from this collection are split equally between the photographer, the leading artist, and the organization or crowd-funding effort of that artist’s choice. Omari has selected The National Black Transgender Advocacy Coalition, the only social justice organization led by black trans people to collectively address the inequities faced in the black transgender human experience by overcoming violence and injustice in the world through the power, value and love of all people. Find out more at blacktrans.org

 

audio recommendation: “Hammer” By Lorde