Benjamin Wolbergs’ photo book is an inclusive representation of the queer community
The Berlin-based editor and art director talks us through his mammoth project, New Queer Photography, featuring works from Dustin Thierry, Mohamad Abdouni and many more.
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Four years ago, Benjamin Wolbergs devised an idea. At the time, the Berlin-based art director and editor was working at the publishing house Taschen on a layout for a photography book, featuring images from the 50s with an aesthetic “clearly intended to appear to a gay audience”, he tells It’s Nice That. This ignited a few questions for the creative, particularly on the topic of contemporary queer photography and what this would actually look like in the physicality of a publication. “What photographers, topics and styles would be included in such a book today?”