Daniel Jack Lyons
Like a River
Published by Loose Joints, 2022
Size: 22.5 x 27 cm
Language: English
Hardcover
Daniel Jack Lyons’ first monograph continues the American artist’s long-term commitment to visualizing the social and political rights of underrepresented communities. With a background in social and medical anthropology, Daniel Jack Lyons began working in the Amazon under the umbrella of Casa do Rio, a community organization that celebrates and supports the cultural lives of adolescents and youth living deep in the Amazon. Lyons visualizes and empowers the region’s trans and queer communities, exploring how deep indigenous traditions and modern identity politics meet in a space of celebration and safety amidst the rainforest’s lush canopies and vegetation.
Lyons’s empowering images celebrate the eternal coming-of-age impulse to express and assert one’s individuality, which here in the Amazon resists a toxic mix of environmental degradation, violence, and discrimination. As a new generation goes through the daily rites and rituals of adolescence, Lyons asks: What kind of world will they inhabit, and how much autonomy will they have over it?
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