The Library Lounge

TheirStories: Framing Masculinity - Jesse Glazzard & Ajamu X In Conversation with D Mortimer

TheirStories is back in The Library Lounge for their last event of the year, exploring intergenerational LGBTQ+ stories at The Standard, London. For this edition to close out 2024, TheirStories presents Framing Masculinity.

For this one off special, writer D Mortimer brings together legendary photographer Ajamu X and emerging icon Jesse Glazzard to discuss the ways in which masculinity and its diversions are represented in their photographic work. Two artists from different worlds; emerging from within black queer, and trans masc communities, their work is intrinsically linked. Both artists share a corruscating, irreverent and confronting approach to photography and a way of photographing men that is entirely their own. This panel will discuss the ways in which sexuality, race and gender have figured in the work of these photographers and how they have each carved out spaces of pleasure and play over the course of their careers.

Join us in The Library Lounge for a rich evening of queer intergenerational conversation, celebrating two of the UK’s most exciting queer photographic artists.

6pm - doors

6.30pm - talk

Spaces are limited, RSVP by emailing london.restaurants@standardhotels.com

TheirStories is an intergenerational LGBTQ+ platform & event series, created to investigate, celebrate and uplift the diverse narratives and stories of the UK’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community, with talks, performances, cultural moments and music. Curated by Laurie Belgrave, founder of The Chateau, and currently resident at The Standard, London, these nourishing conversations between generations of queer creatives, artists & humxns provide a much needed space for learning, reflection and connection, for both the queer community, and allies looking to educate themselves on queer issues. TheirStories values and celebrates our history, contextualising our existence with the stories of the queer people who came before us.