This panel brings together artists who question fixed ideas of gender, identity, and kinship through queer perspectives grounded in lived experience. Working across fashion photography, documentary, staged imagery, and intimate storytelling, these projects explore how gender and belonging are constructed, performed, and felt in everyday life.
Moving beyond binary definitions, the works presented foreground chosen families, domestic spaces, tenderness, and shared rituals as central sites of care and representation. Together, they imagine queer worlds in which bodies, roles, and relationships remain open, fluid, and continuously redefined, and where visibility functions as affirmation rather than classification.
About Adam Han-Chun Lin
Adam Lin is a Taiwan-born photographer and visual artist based in London. His work explores intimacy, masculinity,queerness, heritage, and cross-cultural identity through portraiture, fashion, and documentary photography. He holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins; his work has been featured in WePresent, AnOther Magazine, and It’s Nice That.
About Laila Annmarie Stevens
Laila Annmarie Stevens (b. 2001) is a Black Queer photographer and visual artist born and raised in South Jamaica, Queens, NY, and based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in Photography and Related Media at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Their work can be described as a raw and intimate perspective, redefining traditional family structures through contemporary community kinship.
About Roxana Rios
Roxana completed a double study, studying in the classes of Heidi Specker and Juergen Teller. Following graduation in 2020, Roxana joined Isabel Lewis’s class, where they received their diploma in July 2023. Roxana’s work has been shown at Museum Folkwang, MdBK, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Deichtorhallen, and won the Contemporary German Photography Grant 2024. In 2025, Roxana was selected as a FUTURES Talent.
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About Jordan Anderson
Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Jordan Anderson is a Milan-based cultural strategist, creative director, and writer operating at the intersection of fashion, media, and contemporary culture. His work critically explores the political and social dimensions of the fashion and art industries, with a particular focus on race, gender, identity, and cultural and brand ethics. Anderson is the founder of My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness (MQBMBQ), an interdisciplinary platform examining Black queer identity through fashion, music, art, and broader creative practices. With over eight years of experience across leading international publications, cultural institutions, and private members’ organisations, he specialises in shaping cultural narratives, developing programming, and advising brands and institutions on meaningful and responsible cultural engagement. His writing and editorial contributions have appeared in publications including Vogue Italia, Style Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Document Journal, A Magazine Curated By, and nss magazine, among others.