Happy / L.A. Hyder.
From my first real b&w film camera bought in 1969 through my latest images in the digital age, I work from a vision mentored by an earlier age of photography and now honed through years of looking through a lens.
I've done everything 'by the seat of my pants' from taking / developing / printing my work to learning how a gallery runs with the Vida Gallery Collective at the SF Women's Building (mid 80s). I founded and directed LVA : Lesbians in the Visual Arts, an international organization, from 1990 to 2003, where I wrote personal essays for publication. As a published writer, my visual work is published in a number of books, including: This Bridge Called My Back, writings by radical women of color (4th Ed), Anzaldua and Moraga, Editors, and in Lesbian Art in America, a contemporary history, by Harmony Hammond.
For more information and to view Happy's photographs, she can be contacted at lahyderphotography@gmail.com
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