Molly Landreth

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Molly Landreth is an American freelance photographer and artist born in Washington. [1]

Washington (state) State of the United States of America

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named for George Washington, the first president of the United States, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by Britain in 1846 in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital; the state's largest city is Seattle. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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Her large-format portraits address topics such as gender and sexuality in the LGBT community. She began documenting the queer community in 2004, [2] hoping to redefine the narrative of sexuality within relationships in the community. [1] She is currently working on an eight-year-long photography project called the Embodiment Project which focuses on her photography along with personal statements regarding her work.

Large format

Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches (102×127 mm) or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the 6×6 cm or 6×9 cm size of Hasselblad, Rollei, Kowa, and Pentax cameras, and much larger than the 24×36 mm (0.95×1.42 inch) frame of 35 mm format. The main advantage of large format, film or digital, is a higher resolution at the same pixel pitch, or the same resolution with larger pixels or grains. A 4×5 inch image has about 15 times the area, and thus 15× the total resolution, of a 35 mm frame.

LGBT Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the late 1980s, queer activists, such as the members of Queer Nation, began to reclaim the word as a deliberately provocative and politically radical alternative to the more assimilationist branches of the LGBT community.

She has been awarded several grants, including the Individual Artist Projects Grant from 4Culture, [3] the Humble Arts Foundation Grant, [4] and the Artist Projects Grant from Artist Trust in 2008. [5]

4Culture is a tax-exempt public development authority (PDA), with a fifteen member Board of Directors, who are nominated by the King County Executive and confirmed by the King County Council. A Public Development Authority is a public entity created by cities or counties to accomplish public purpose activities without assuming them into the regular functions of County government.

Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting Washington artists working in all creative disciplines. Artist Trust provides artists the time and resources necessary to prosper. Since 1987 it has invested over ten million dollars in grants, resources and career training to thousands of Washington State's most promising and respected musicians, visual artists, writers, dancers, craft artists, filmmakers, cross-disciplinary artists and more. It is located in Seattle, Washington, and serves the entire state.

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  1. 1 2 Dolnick, Sam. "In a Common Scene, a 'Queer Subject'". The New York Times Lens Blog. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  2. ↑ "Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America". Time. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  3. ↑ "artist's events: local, free and fabulous". 4Culture. 2011-11-17. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  4. ↑ "Latitude 47 Highlights Northwest Photography". Humble Arts Foundation. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  5. ↑ "Artist Profile - Artist Trust". artisttrust.org. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
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