Jess T. Dugan & Charlotte Cotton on Collaboration, Community, and the Evolution of Love Pictures. - Episode 108
About this episode
Jess T. Dugan and Charlotte Cotton discuss their collaborative book 'Love Pictures' and its exploration of identity and community.
Photographer Jess T. Dugan and writer Charlotte Cotton join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss their 2 volume book, Love Pictures, published by Radius Books. Developed through their friendship and an ongoing dialogue between Dugan and Cotton, Love Pictures explores key themes shaping Dugan’s photographic practice, including gender and identity, family and politics, writing and language, the photobook as object, and the dynamics of exhibition spaces. These conversations expand outward to include voices from their broader creative communities, featuring contributors such as Dawoud Bey, Kelli Connell, and Dorothy Moss. In this episode, Jess, Charlotte, and Sasha discuss how this project evolved from an intimate exchange into a comprehensive survey of Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan Charlotte Cotton Jess T. Dugan (b. 1986, they/them, lives in St. Louis) is an artist whose work explores identity and the complexities of the human condition. While their practice is centered around photography, it also includes writing, video, audio, drawing, and installation. Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over seventy museums. Charlotte Cotton (b…
People in this episode
Host: Sasha Wolf
Guests: Jess T. Dugan, Charlotte Cotton
Topics covered
- collaboration
- community
- photography
- identity
- gender
- exhibition spaces
Keywords
- Love Pictures
- photography
- identity
- gender
- community
- exhibition
- art
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Radius Books
Places: St. Louis, London
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