{"id":1797159,"date":"2026-02-27T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1797159"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:07:00","slug":"these-intimate-photos-show-the-multiplicity-of-dykes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1797159","title":{"rendered":"These intimate photos show the multiplicity of \u2018Dykes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-220-2303-1535\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439324.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/69770\/1\/dykes-emily-lipson-photo-book-queer-portraits-lesbians-photography\" data-article-id=\"69770\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.86\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"2671\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439324.jpg\" width=\"2308\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Emily Lipson<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-02-27T14:07:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"27 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"27\">27,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/q-and-a\">Q+A<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/q-and-a\">Q+A<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>These intimate photos show the multiplicity <span class=\"nowrap\">of \u2018Dykes\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Emily Lipson\u2019s first photo book resists simplifying the lesbian community by exploring identity as a <span class=\"nowrap\">transient state<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-27T14:07:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"27 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"27\">27,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-27T14:07:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"27 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"27\">27,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/laurapitcher\">Laura Pitcher<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-22-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Emily Lipson, Dykes<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/0\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2080-1386\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439312.jpg\" width=\"2080\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/1\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/770-552-1290-860\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439328.jpeg\" width=\"1290\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/2\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1599\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-660-2399-1599\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439315.jpg\" width=\"2399\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/3\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-720-2400-1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439326.jpg\" width=\"2400\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/4\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1325\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-638-1988-1325\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439323.jpg\" width=\"1988\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/5\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1465\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2198-1465\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439330.jpeg\" width=\"2198\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 22 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>I called photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/emily.lipson\/\">Emily Lipson<\/a> in the midst of a personal metamorphosis. She was setting up for a release party, which happened last night in Paris, for her first book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dykesbook.com\/\"><em><span>Dykes<\/span><\/em><\/a><span>, distributed by Antenne Books. \u201cI\u2019ve never done a gallery show or a book, so to do both at the same time is true to my personality,\u201d she told me. \u201cI have to do things very much to the extreme.\u201d The book itself is an extreme accomplishment \u2013 220 pages bringing 50 people together to examine lesbian identity, visibility and authorship over time. To follow the Paris launch, there will be a release party in New York next week, which is fitting since the photographer now spends her days between the two cities. \u201cI came to Paris to exit the commercial bubble,\u201d Lipson says. Some photos featured in the book were also shot in London and Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With <\/span><em><span>Dykes, <\/span><\/em><span>Lipson is cementing herself as an artist who transcends the fashion industry. In her artist statement for the book<\/span><em><span>, <\/span><\/em><span>which moved between portraiture and fashion, she wrote about being \u201ca firm believer in change\u201d, not as an abstract idea but as something to embody and encourage. \u201cMostly, it [the book] has been about change over time,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy identity, someone else\u2019s, all of us colliding and ricocheting off one another \u2013 messy, painful, kinetic.\u201d Her emphasis on everything and everyone being constantly in flux translates into multiple aesthetics in her work. But she\u2019s not interested in creating aesthetic sameness; she wants to dive deep into themes instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lipson says choosing a topic for her first book was an easy decision. While she used to be afraid of the word \u201cdyke\u201d, it\u2019s now something she wears with tremendous pride. \u201cI want to show the multitude of people that exist in this space,\u201d she told me. The book approaches queerness through an expansive lens. It\u2019s less about defining a community than it is about resisting simplification and exploring identity as a transient state. As she wrote in her artist statement: \u201c\u200b\u200bWe are not one harmonious group holding hands. We are too varied, too imperfect. We\u2019re not a friend group for clout. We\u2019re not a friend group based on a hobby. We\u2019re all merely people, again ricocheting, and aware of each other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Below, we spoke to Lipson about <\/span><em><span>Dykes, <\/span><\/em><span>bugs and change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"33a935ed-b70a-4178-98f9-b3fe00cbd5da\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439325.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.37\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018Dykes\u2019\" class=\"img\" height=\"2195\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439325.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Emily Lipson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>How and when did the idea for <\/strong><strong><em>Dykes<\/em><\/strong><strong> come to you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>I think a lot of photographers struggle with getting off the hamster wheel of commissioned work at some point and finding themselves not actually making things generated by their own ideas. The quickness of fashion photography can almost feel anticlimactic. And it\u2019s rare that I feel very rewarded by it. With this project, it was 2023 and I was getting out of a relationship. I was essentially just frustrated, waking up in the middle of the night with anxiety because I felt like I had to do this thing. It became so uncomfortable that I had to make a book. I wanted to make something that takes way longer to do and just age with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And this is your first book. Why did you want this project to be a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>I have a very stringent commitment to print. An assemblage of photos starts to mean something. And just being a dyke and existing, I don\u2019t resonate with a lot of the narratives in the mainstream media. I started to feel like I wasn\u2019t seeing myself in the things I was consuming. The book honestly happened organically because I had already shot so many partners and friends. I sat down with my archive and started to recontextualise old work, asking myself, \u2018When have I shot dykes?\u2019 From there, I started to piece together a body of work that felt like a contemporary vision of butch aesthetics. Also, the play between butch and fem, which I feel like a lot of people don\u2019t talk about. Bringing people together and seeing the side-by-side feels like a community when we don\u2019t have physical records of that in other ways. It just felt important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What about the name?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>It\u2019s obviously historically a derogatory term, but, in modern culture, I don\u2019t think people say lesbian as much as they say dyke. It\u2019s normalising and celebrating this reclaimed thing. But the concept of dyke in modern imagery, outside of the community, has a lot of stereotypes. I wanted to make something that felt like it was subverting that. Not everyone in the book at this moment in time is like, \u201cI\u2019m a gold star lesbian\u201d. Some are bisexual. Some are trans masc men or trans fem women. I wanted to try to invite as many people in and ask, \u2018Do you feel you belong to this community?\u2019 And \u2018Do you want to be seen in this project?\u2019 I was surprised by how many people who aren\u2019t just cis lesbians wanted to be included. There\u2019s a lot of fluidity in the community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You shot 50 people over five years. Can you tell me about some of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>One of the really cool ones was with Charlotte Day Wilson for an album cover. She was living in LA, and the shoot was just her and I and two other people. We drove around in a car together, and they are some of my favourite pictures I\u2019ve ever taken. I also did a big two-day shoot in Paris in 2024 that was all streetcast dykes for the book. It was cool to be transplanted into an existing community, and then also become the glue that brings new people together by making this work. In this digital social universe we live in, things can feel disparate. We\u2019re engaging, but we\u2019re not together, so it\u2019s important to create these in-person meetups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you in the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>There was one, but I ended up taking myself out. I like the separation. But while I\u2019m shooting, I do start to match the person. Something happens where I\u2019m channelling them. So, in other words, I do exist in the picture. I don\u2019t need to be there visually, but my energy is being conducted into it. It\u2019s a dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"046509a9-24cf-4923-b906-b3fe00cbf96e\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439330.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.73\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439330.jpeg\" width=\"2199\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Emily Lipson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>How did you decide who made the cut?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>It was just a feeling when going through the pictures. I have exes in the book, but I can still detach from the personal baggage to see if it feels like a strong image. There were no sacred cows. At the end of the day, it\u2019s a visual object, and I had to arrive at decisions that way. But, looking at it now, there are a million edits I would have made. So I\u2019m going to do more books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What else do you want to explore?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>Identity is really the core of everything for me right now. It\u2019s how we are invited into rooms. Your identity is both propelling you into spaces and allowing you to be around the community you need, but it\u2019s also stifling. It gives you something and limits you. I was writing in my notes app and got to this thought about how the way I feel seen is by seeing myself reflected back. Identity at its best is what builds community, and there aren\u2019t enough images of my lovers and friends, and how we exist in the world, so I just want to keep building that so more people feel seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You wiped your Instagram clean before the launch. Is this a new era for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>I think I\u2019ve struggled for the entirety of my career to bind myself to a single aesthetic because I\u2019m not a brand, I\u2019m a human who is constantly evolving. My ideas change. Recently, I\u2019ve gotten into painting even though I\u2019m shit at it, so wiped my Instagram because stylistically some of it feels old. I think I want my work to sort of just exist. I want to make a work around themes. In this book, I shot on 12 different cameras. I used AI. There\u2019s some collage. It\u2019s aesthetically all over the place. There are bugs and photos of tampons that are cropped as still lifes. I came to the realisation that no aesthetic is the unifying theme of my work; it has to be the theme instead. Also, omission is cool. I want to do pop-ups where you see work over a week, and then it might be gone. You just have to follow along.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me more about how you used AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>What\u2019s interesting about generative AI is what it\u2019s drawing from and what the existing record of stereotypes or biases is. I took a bunch of photos and circled the heads and said, \u2018Make a lesbian hairdo.\u2019 So it\u2019s kind of an Easter egg thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And what about the bugs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>Bugs are dykes to me. I think it\u2019s obvious as to why. When you look at a book, there\u2019s a left and right side, and those two images are always in conversation. 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You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-22-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Emily Lipson, Dykes<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/0\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2080-1386\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439312.jpg\" width=\"2080\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/1\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/770-552-1290-860\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439328.jpeg\" width=\"1290\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/2\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1599\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-660-2399-1599\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439315.jpg\" width=\"2399\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/3\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-720-2400-1600\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439326.jpg\" width=\"2400\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/4\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1325\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-638-1988-1325\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439323.jpg\" width=\"1988\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36759\/5\/emily-lipson-dykes\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"1465\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2198-1465\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439330.jpeg\" width=\"2198\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 22 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>I called photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/emily.lipson\/\">Emily Lipson<\/a> in the midst of a personal metamorphosis. She was setting up for a release party, which happened last night in Paris, for her first book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dykesbook.com\/\"><em><span>Dykes<\/span><\/em><\/a><span>, distributed by Antenne Books. \u201cI\u2019ve never done a gallery show or a book, so to do both at the same time is true to my personality,\u201d she told me. \u201cI have to do things very much to the extreme.\u201d The book itself is an extreme accomplishment \u2013 220 pages bringing 50 people together to examine lesbian identity, visibility and authorship over time. To follow the Paris launch, there will be a release party in New York next week, which is fitting since the photographer now spends her days between the two cities. \u201cI came to Paris to exit the commercial bubble,\u201d Lipson says. Some photos featured in the book were also shot in London and Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With <\/span><em><span>Dykes, <\/span><\/em><span>Lipson is cementing herself as an artist who transcends the fashion industry. In her artist statement for the book<\/span><em><span>, <\/span><\/em><span>which moved between portraiture and fashion, she wrote about being \u201ca firm believer in change\u201d, not as an abstract idea but as something to embody and encourage. \u201cMostly, it [the book] has been about change over time,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy identity, someone else\u2019s, all of us colliding and ricocheting off one another \u2013 messy, painful, kinetic.\u201d Her emphasis on everything and everyone being constantly in flux translates into multiple aesthetics in her work. But she\u2019s not interested in creating aesthetic sameness; she wants to dive deep into themes instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lipson says choosing a topic for her first book was an easy decision. While she used to be afraid of the word \u201cdyke\u201d, it\u2019s now something she wears with tremendous pride. \u201cI want to show the multitude of people that exist in this space,\u201d she told me. The book approaches queerness through an expansive lens. It\u2019s less about defining a community than it is about resisting simplification and exploring identity as a transient state. As she wrote in her artist statement: \u201c\u200b\u200bWe are not one harmonious group holding hands. We are too varied, too imperfect. We\u2019re not a friend group for clout. We\u2019re not a friend group based on a hobby. We\u2019re all merely people, again ricocheting, and aware of each other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Below, we spoke to Lipson about <\/span><em><span>Dykes, <\/span><\/em><span>bugs and change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"33a935ed-b70a-4178-98f9-b3fe00cbd5da\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439325.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.37\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018Dykes\u2019\" class=\"img\" height=\"2195\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439325.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Emily Lipson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>How and when did the idea for <\/strong><strong><em>Dykes<\/em><\/strong><strong> come to you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>I think a lot of photographers struggle with getting off the hamster wheel of commissioned work at some point and finding themselves not actually making things generated by their own ideas. The quickness of fashion photography can almost feel anticlimactic. And it\u2019s rare that I feel very rewarded by it. With this project, it was 2023 and I was getting out of a relationship. I was essentially just frustrated, waking up in the middle of the night with anxiety because I felt like I had to do this thing. It became so uncomfortable that I had to make a book. I wanted to make something that takes way longer to do and just age with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And this is your first book. Why did you want this project to be a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>I have a very stringent commitment to print. An assemblage of photos starts to mean something. And just being a dyke and existing, I don\u2019t resonate with a lot of the narratives in the mainstream media. I started to feel like I wasn\u2019t seeing myself in the things I was consuming. The book honestly happened organically because I had already shot so many partners and friends. I sat down with my archive and started to recontextualise old work, asking myself, \u2018When have I shot dykes?\u2019 From there, I started to piece together a body of work that felt like a contemporary vision of butch aesthetics. Also, the play between butch and fem, which I feel like a lot of people don\u2019t talk about. Bringing people together and seeing the side-by-side feels like a community when we don\u2019t have physical records of that in other ways. It just felt important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What about the name?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>It\u2019s obviously historically a derogatory term, but, in modern culture, I don\u2019t think people say lesbian as much as they say dyke. It\u2019s normalising and celebrating this reclaimed thing. But the concept of dyke in modern imagery, outside of the community, has a lot of stereotypes. I wanted to make something that felt like it was subverting that. Not everyone in the book at this moment in time is like, \u201cI\u2019m a gold star lesbian\u201d. Some are bisexual. Some are trans masc men or trans fem women. I wanted to try to invite as many people in and ask, \u2018Do you feel you belong to this community?\u2019 And \u2018Do you want to be seen in this project?\u2019 I was surprised by how many people who aren\u2019t just cis lesbians wanted to be included. There\u2019s a lot of fluidity in the community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You shot 50 people over five years. Can you tell me about some of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>One of the really cool ones was with Charlotte Day Wilson for an album cover. She was living in LA, and the shoot was just her and I and two other people. We drove around in a car together, and they are some of my favourite pictures I\u2019ve ever taken. I also did a big two-day shoot in Paris in 2024 that was all streetcast dykes for the book. It was cool to be transplanted into an existing community, and then also become the glue that brings new people together by making this work. In this digital social universe we live in, things can feel disparate. We\u2019re engaging, but we\u2019re not together, so it\u2019s important to create these in-person meetups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you in the book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>There was one, but I ended up taking myself out. I like the separation. But while I\u2019m shooting, I do start to match the person. Something happens where I\u2019m channelling them. So, in other words, I do exist in the picture. I don\u2019t need to be there visually, but my energy is being conducted into it. It\u2019s a dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"046509a9-24cf-4923-b906-b3fe00cbf96e\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439330.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.73\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emily Lipson, Dykes\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/9\/1439330.jpeg\" width=\"2199\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Emily Lipson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>How did you decide who made the cut?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>It was just a feeling when going through the pictures. I have exes in the book, but I can still detach from the personal baggage to see if it feels like a strong image. There were no sacred cows. At the end of the day, it\u2019s a visual object, and I had to arrive at decisions that way. But, looking at it now, there are a million edits I would have made. So I\u2019m going to do more books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What else do you want to explore?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>Identity is really the core of everything for me right now. It\u2019s how we are invited into rooms. Your identity is both propelling you into spaces and allowing you to be around the community you need, but it\u2019s also stifling. It gives you something and limits you. I was writing in my notes app and got to this thought about how the way I feel seen is by seeing myself reflected back. Identity at its best is what builds community, and there aren\u2019t enough images of my lovers and friends, and how we exist in the world, so I just want to keep building that so more people feel seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You wiped your Instagram clean before the launch. Is this a new era for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>I think I\u2019ve struggled for the entirety of my career to bind myself to a single aesthetic because I\u2019m not a brand, I\u2019m a human who is constantly evolving. My ideas change. Recently, I\u2019ve gotten into painting even though I\u2019m shit at it, so wiped my Instagram because stylistically some of it feels old. I think I want my work to sort of just exist. I want to make a work around themes. In this book, I shot on 12 different cameras. I used AI. There\u2019s some collage. It\u2019s aesthetically all over the place. There are bugs and photos of tampons that are cropped as still lifes. I came to the realisation that no aesthetic is the unifying theme of my work; it has to be the theme instead. Also, omission is cool. I want to do pop-ups where you see work over a week, and then it might be gone. You just have to follow along.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me more about how you used AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>What\u2019s interesting about generative AI is what it\u2019s drawing from and what the existing record of stereotypes or biases is. I took a bunch of photos and circled the heads and said, \u2018Make a lesbian hairdo.\u2019 So it\u2019s kind of an Easter egg thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And what about the bugs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Lipson: <\/strong><span>Bugs are dykes to me. I think it\u2019s obvious as to why. When you look at a book, there\u2019s a left and right side, and those two images are always in conversation. I think the bugs paired with some of the people emphasise the themes of otherness. It\u2019s a community that\u2019s often misunderstood, and I think the bugs help to tell that story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dykes <em>by Emily Lipson is available to pre-order <a href=\"https:\/\/dykesbook.com\/?utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnmXvkJB_Tj6gAebtEUAo31fmzvNLzsIy0IhWDdPnMe5Xoyqsvq3XZh17f3Aw_aem_NYfmDbHWIW_Q-j94gnre1w\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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