#della grace

[lesbian-archives]

"Punk London Dykes", Della Grace, 1983

[holeymolars]

Laura and Nina, Florence (Del LaGrace, 1993)

(Photo ID: A black and white photo of two shirtless butches in swim trunks standing back to back. They are both muscular and curling their biceps. Neither is directly facing the camera, but both have their heads turned to look at it. One is wearing sunglasses, a bandanna around their wrist and a watch, with white trunks and appears to have a tattoo on their ribcage. You can see their left breast, but their right is covered by their arm. The other is wearing zebra (I think) print trunks and a watch. They both have short, curly hair and light skin. They appear to be on the beach, though you can not really see anything in the background besides what appears to be the sky.)

[dyke-bars-never-last]

Love Bites (1991) - Della Grace

It didn't take long to realize I did not belong to the mainstream "Lesbian Nation" when I found a second home at Scott's Bar in San Francisco. A working class dyke bar populated by high femme sex workers and their super butch girlfriends. It was my refuge from my other life as a scholarship student at the San Francisco Art Institute, a place populated by over privileged trust fund babies and a few amazing artists who would go on to make a big impact.

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I stuck close to my heart and my politics. I photographed what was around me, what I desired, what I wanted to be. But it is hard to be what you never see.

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Rather than bring my camera into the club, a sacred and profane space, we often went out into the world and created public spectacles of ourselves: on top of Soho skyscrapers and the infamous and broken Cold Store overlooking the Thames. We posed and performed for each other, in parks and alleyways, in the back of Camerawork Gallery on the Roman Road in Bethnal Green.

I think it gave us all a sense of satisfaction to see the looks on some faces when confronted with two dozen dykes in leathers and looking fierce and fabulous.

REFLECTIONS on LOVE BITES https://www.dellagracevolcano.se/gallery/love-bites-23196221

[abutchdaddydyke]

[lesbian-archives]

"Kate and Viv at The Bell", Della Grace, 1983

[diabeticlesbian]

Della Grace: The Ceremony (As featured in Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, Pandora, 1991)

[lesbianartandartists]

Della Grace, Lulu, 1991

[lesbianartandartists]

Della Grace, Scott's Bar III, 1982