Nicholas Joseph Contrera
Tintype self portrait of Nicholas Joseph Contrera.
Discipline: Photography
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Publications: Huffington Post
Bio
Nicholas Joseph Contrera is a photographer and fine artist who focus on the concept of “Home”. In his body of work, Contrera explores the theme through series of photos of places that have lost identity and regained a new one, people who defy gender expectations, and deconstructs gender as a social construct all together. Contrera also explores and comments on the issues of privilege, racial injustices, and sex-work.
Statement
Nicholas Contrera (b. 1992, Detroit, Michigan) has developed a photographic practice that explores the multi-dimensional nature of gender. Turning his camera to a diversity of subjects, particularly those entrenched in New York City's vibrant and often decadent club scene, he investigates the fluidity of sexuality and self. Resisting current photo technologies, Contrera employs the analog techniques of film and embraces historical processes like tintype, in his investigations of human identity. His work has been exhibited in galleries internationally and in New York, he has appeared in the Huffington Post, New York Pride Guide, and other New York publishings.