About

 

Elisa Shea's work is a chapter, a portrait of San Francisco, capturing daily queer life in the 2000s. Is 35mm film a gateway to a bygone era? Each delicate detail tells a piece of their stories, each glimmer of light illuminates a past that is so close, yet so intimately captured by this memorial archive. It's an ode, a tribute to friendship, to empathy, to women's beauty and power above all.

Shea has captured it all, with humility and tenderness, her lens caressing faces, hands, gazes, smiles, teeth, so many eyes and colored hair embracing and caressing each other.