The Glory

From 2017 to its close, I worked with queer supervenue The Glory as their go-to photographer for their competitions Lipsync1000 and Man Up, as well as their yearly takeover of the National Theatre’s river stage.

Despite deciding it was time for new energy after their Divine intervention, I still frequent the Divine and still love Woo, Sizzle, Jack and Mads to bits! All of these photos are in the process of being archived to the Bishopsgate Institute.

Lipsync1000

Images of 20 drag and performance artists, including Crystal from Rupaul's Drag Race, all shot behind a hot pink background.

Samuel Cox, a cabaret performer dressed as Indiana Jones, poses with his two backing dancers, Luspinda and Glimmer. Both girls have black bobs and stripy white-and-red bikinis.

The Lipsync1000 final cast of 2023, celebrating on the Clapham Grand stage

Drag queens Jane Norman, Lua Ray and Frankie Fann all pose together. While Jane is more conservatively dressed in a little black dress, Lua is dressed as a pig in a black-and-white bedazzled swimsuit, and Frankie is wearing a red and black latex nun's habit.

Drag king Dandy Darling helps their accompanying dancer get dressed. Both are dressed like praying mantises; Dandy in pink, their dancer in green.

Cabbage the Clown, in a shimmery silver dress, smiles at the top of a staircase. The photo is taken from the bottom.

Drag king Masc Peach poses with his girlfriend, Die Lemma, and friend, the PUF. All are eccentrically dressed. The photo is in black and white.

Man Up!

coming soon!

National Theatre River Stage

The cast of the inaugural London production of A Strange Loop perform on stage

Three drag queens: John Sizzle in red, Aaron Manhattan in black with a yellow wig, and Jonbers Blonde in green, perform on stage while DJ and rapper Gaff-E, in blue, walks by

Drag queen Camile Leon, dressed as Eurovision winner Loreen, pretends to call her iPhone

XO, a drag king in an electric wheelchair dressed as a 90s boyband member, dances on stage with Chiyo, a trans male drag king with his shirt off and dyed red hair

Tom Rasmussen, a masc-presenting non-binary singer with larger figure and reddish-brown hair and beard, performs on stage.

Audience members dancing, at night and with abandon

John Sizzle, again in red Kylie Minogue in the Padam Padam video cosplay, rides a Santander "Boris" bike

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Text in pink: The AIDS Plays Project. Follow @ The Aids Plays Project to find out more.

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The AIDS Plays Project

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Creative Lives in Progress

Images of 20 drag and performance artists, including Crystal from Rupaul's Drag Race, all shot behind a hot pink background.

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The Glory

A photomanipulation of SafeOnly founder Dani Singer holding Charity Shop Sue on a night out

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SafeOnly LTD

A wall of the Space Between exhibition hosted by the University of the Arts London's student union. The wall includes a moody painting, an illustration montage and screenprinting of world foods.

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Made in Arts London

Adidas MOVE

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adidas MOVE (D&AD Shift)

Fry down or fry up? Choose a breakfast to remember. Guinness 0.0

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Guinness 0.0 (D&AD Shift)

Ride the Penguin Line. Stops at Mornington Not-Present, Reading, Chillton and Anywhere You Can Imagine. Does not stop at Tiktoxford Circus, Elephant and Ruined Appetite, Euston We Have A Problem or Wakeupstow. Penguins for London: Make your journey matter.

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Penguin Random House (D&AD Shift)

A screenshot from the It's Nice That website: "Raining on Rain Man: why and how autistic people can be creative Autistic people don’t just like trains and maths – they can be creative too. Lylani Devorah asks fellow autistic creatives to dispel the myths of being autistic in the arts and discuss the challenges of being a logical thinker in an imaginative industry."

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Writing

A young couple sing along to early-2010s music at a Tumblr themed party

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V&A Upstart Festival Panel