I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.
Vivek ShrayaOf course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.
Vivek ShrayaI have always considered the aesthetic of a project, including press photos, as a means to further the message of the art itself.
Vivek Shraya