Photographer Chloe Sherman was at art school in the 90s when she began taking pictures of San Francisco’s lesbian and queer scene – a group of jobbing workers, creatives and rebels living and breathing the last freedoms of a city now better known for high rents and clean T-shirted tech bros.
Sherman’s candid portraits see young lesbians and queers in cars, at bars, carving out a different path to adulthood. Inspired by photographer Del LaGrace’s photographs of London’s dyke scene, Sherman captured her own world of femmes and butches, punks and studs, filling a wall-width cupboard with 35mm negatives. A selection has been made and displayed at an exhibition titled Renegade San Francisco: The 1990s at Schlomer Haus Gallery in SF.
