TITLE: Safe Spaces

This series explores safe spaces and finding community for LGBTQ+ people in Calgary, Alberta Canada. The work considers our formed biases of sexuality, aging, love, gender, self, and identity. It examines how these things are viewed from outside, but also within the queer community. The work reflects on both public and private displays of queerness and finding the fragile balance of safety and fulfillment while living an openly queer life.

AUTHOR: Tiffany Thomson (Canada)

I am an emerging visual artist / documentary photographer that is currently exploring ideas of safety. My work explores stories of complex origin, sexuality and queerness, identity, and religion. My images are often self-reflexive, guided by the subject's own voice, giving way for a glimpse of their own experiences to be shared.
I am a queer woman that came out very late in life. I was raised in an extreme religion in small town Alberta, and have since left.
My work reflects upon encounters of realization, acceptance, dissonance, alienation, and experiences of breaking cycles that formed myself and others with similar experiences. Working through a queer lens, my work looks through the shadows of my own past, while immersing myself in the new life, culture, and community around me.