YOUTH IN RESILIENCE 
This exhibit is a visual exploration of the queer youth experience across borders and cultures. Through a collection of photographs, viewers are invited into the intimate lives of queer youth as they navigate the complexities of migration, identity, and belonging. Each image tells a deeply personal story of self-discovery, conveying the journey of realising one-self in unfamiliar spaces and contexts. 

There are two parts of this exhibit, with the first one featuring three portraits taken in 2022 right after Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine. The tenderness of the images is contrasted with the raging emotions experienced and by the inability of a person to process such overwhelming fear for their friends, strangers, and loved ones. This collection is about resistance and the resilience to military aggression and state sanctioned violence. How does one remain a person in the face of the dehumanising force?

The second part of the exhibit spans the narrative of complex identities and the search for belonging. It highlights the multiple, ongoing struggles faced by queer youth—where the fight for sexual and gender acceptance intersects with the experience of displacement, both physical and metaphorical. With the increased pressure on immigration in the UK and the abhorrent Supreme Court ruling, images taken in the time period of 2023-2024 are emplaced within the framework of the ongoing struggle.

At its core, this exhibition strives to draw similarities of the shared human experience that connect queer identities across diverse landscapes, showing how shared human experiences of love, acceptance, and vulnerability empower and affirm them.