Photographer Jesse Glazzrd is known for making striking and intimate portraits anchored in his everyday life and wider community. Alongside his commercial and editorial work, Glazzard’s passion projects immerse us in marginal, lesser-known worlds, such as trans boxing gyms, queer camping and underground club nights. Throughout, his photographs are informed by compassion. Whether it be his 2021 zine The World Before Sanitiser (a celebration – and enshrining – of pre-Pandemic queer nightlife) or In Order to Smile in a Tin Box (collected studio portraits of his chosen family, published earlier this year), his pictures are nothing if not loving and tender.
Glazzard is drawn to zines as a medium. He loves their accessibility – the way they can be produced and disseminated. But to work with a figure such as Anthony Vaccarello and to see himself and his wider queer community adorn the walls of Saint Laurent’s prestigious cultural centres is something else. “I did some manifestations about it at the start of the year,” he says. “It’s also sick to see us on walls we have historically never really been on.”
The fanzine was produced in conjunction with The show is part of Anthony Vaccarello’s diverse cultural programming at Saint Laurent’s Rive Droite destinations.
First Edition. 2024. Out of Print.
