Andrew Michael Joseph, he/him, senior at the University of New Mexico, is heading into his final year in the studio art program, leaving behind a photographic legacy of exploration and celebration of queer identity in the UNM arts and honors programs.

In his work, Joseph is interested in exploring his identity as a transgender man. His most recent exhibition “Proximity to Divinity” investigated the idea of the cisgender male as the “divine” and the inability to achieve this ideal. He also explored the beauty that comes from not being cisgender and having to “make your own body and make your own being.

Full article and photography by Zara Roy at: https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2022/10/unm-student-captures-queer-identity-with-picture-perfect-poeticism