Donna Gottschalk, Self-portrait with JEB, E. 9th Street, New York, 1970. Courtesy of the artist and Marcelle Alix, Paris © Donna Gottschalk.

An intimate exhibition bringing together Donna Gottschalk’s tender documentation of queer life and texts by Hélène Giannecchini, in a conversation across generations about visibility, memory, remembrance and the courage to be seen.

Donna Gottschalk (b.1949, New York) grew up in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1950s, where she spent much of her time on the streets. This backdrop, often of violence and homophobia, shaped her and the way she saw the world: raw, real and up close.

Involved in the early lesbian, trans and gay rights movements, her intimate photographs of the daily lives of her chosen family – friends, lovers, siblings and fellow activists – are a tender portrait of people living on the margins. At a time when gay relationships were still illegal in the US, she described the people she photographed as ‘brave and defiant warriors.’

We Others brings together Gottschalk’s photographs with texts by writer Hélène Giannecchini. When Hélène first met Donna in 2023, they bonded over their shared determination to make lives obscured in mainstream history exist in another way.

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