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Marc Vallée – 90s Archive: Volume One
July 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm CEST
Join Marc Vallée for the Berlin launch of 90s Archive: Volume One at the Retramp Gallery on Thursday 20 July 2023. Marc will be in conversation with Bad Gays co-author Ben Miller. The talk will be in English and a book signing will take place after.
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“The pictures are autobiographical; a window into Vallée’s life in 90s London. However, they have a wider historical and political significance, capturing queer youth as the gay community slowly emerged from the horror of the 80s and early-90s global AIDS epidemic, Margaret Thatcher and Clause 28, which was in effect until 2003.”
– British Journal of Photography, December, 2022.
“As a teenager of the 80s with Thatcher, AIDS and Clause 28 it’s not a surprise I ended up documenting my friends when I got to art school in the 90s…”
– DAZED Magazine, November, 2022.
Biographies
Marc Vallée is a London-based documentary photographer. His zines and photobooks are held in the collections of Tate Britain, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Museum of London, Martin Parr Foundation and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris. Prints held in public and private collections including Museum of London.
Ben Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin. With Huw Lemmey, he hosts Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history, which has been downloaded nearly a million times; a book based on the show and passionately arguing for a more complex and political queer public history, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, was published by Verso in 2022.
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