holding each other (2026) explores queerness as a space of vulnerability and quiet resistance. The images reflect the duality of queer existence: pride and visibility alongside isolation, exhaustion, and ongoing hostility. Even beyond coming out, queer bodies continue to navigate rejection, misunderstanding, and the weight of being told that their love or identity is wrong.

Set within domestic interiors, the photographs point to the home as one of the few spaces where queer intimacy can unfold safely. These rooms offer tenderness, closeness, and protection, yet they also carry a sense of confinement - echoing how safety can become fragile or conditional when it exists only behind closed doors. Within this space, moments of holding onto and leaning into one another reveal how intimacy offers stability, while also becoming an emotional burden.

In a world where visibility is still met with risk, intimacy is often pushed back into secrecy, turning care into something that is practiced quietly, behind closed doors.

holding each other suggests that love is a mutual negotiation: a place where comfort and fragility coexist, and where caring for one another also means absorbing each other's moods and fears in times of crisis.

Models: Martje Becker & Mohadeseh Salehinasab