Friends of Valentine for Another Magazine by Daniel Jack Lyons
Friends of Valentine for Another Magazine
Friends of Valentine a portrait series by Daniel Jack Lyons
- Each queer person’s story treads a different, formative path of self-exploration.
- While an urgency to express one’s gender or sexuality can sometimes meet an impasse with one’s own social and familial circle’s less accepting beliefs, an abstract bond can be tethered with others who share the experience – a new, chosen family, fostered by harsh coming-of-age trauma.
- Such is the case with Daniel Jack Lyons, whose commanding, sensitive photo series Friends of Valentine captures a chosen family of their own making in Los Angeles, barely on the cusp of formation.
- “So much of my work is about celebrating community and chosen family, being a queer person myself,” the photographer says. “You know, I literally would not be alive without my chosen family, without my community.”
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Friends of Valentine for Another Magazine
Friends of Valentine a portrait series by Daniel Jack Lyons
- Each queer person’s story treads a different, formative path of self-exploration.
- While an urgency to express one’s gender or sexuality can sometimes meet an impasse with one’s own social and familial circle’s less accepting beliefs, an abstract bond can be tethered with others who share the experience – a new, chosen family, fostered by harsh coming-of-age trauma.
- Such is the case with Daniel Jack Lyons, whose commanding, sensitive photo series Friends of Valentine captures a chosen family of their own making in Los Angeles, barely on the cusp of formation.
- “So much of my work is about celebrating community and chosen family, being a queer person myself,” the photographer says. “You know, I literally would not be alive without my chosen family, without my community.”