Landreth, Molly

Molly Landreth uses photography to build an archive that highlights individuals of the queer community. Using a large-format camera and treating the images as a collaborative process, Landreth makes intimate portraits of her sitters with the intent to portray love, survival, persistence, and hope. The photographs give visibility to the myriad ways in which queerness undercuts the traditional and stereotypical views of gender identity and sexuality by displaying, in her words, “the lives of people who offer brave new visions of what it means to be queer today.”

Molly Landreth is a freelance photographer, fine artist, and photo educator. She completed a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She began documenting the queer community in 2004 and has since been awarded several grants, including the Individual Artist Projects Grant from 4Culture, the Humble Arts Foundation Grant, and the Artist Projects Grant from Artist Trust in 2008. Landreth has been featured in and photographed for publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Advocate, OUT, Marie Claire, and The New Yorker. She taught at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA from 2010-2022. Exhibitions featuring her work have been held at Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA; Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York, NY; and Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England, among others.