About

Ace Cresswell is a Manchester based artist who uses analogue photography to explore the multifaceted experiences of queer and trans identities. He challenges traditional narratives of visibility, creating a space where bodies are both celebrated and critically examined. He interrogates how the queer body is shaped, navigating an estranged world where such bodies are often marginalised, misrepresented or simply excluded.

His photographs reference the long standing history of queer photography through its focus on representation and critiques of performative roles. He uses the medium as a form of documenting his lived experience as a trans man through his own lens. The physicality of analogue processes allows him to embrace experimentation and transformation, destabilising notions of digital repetition and perfection.

He employs techniques of distortion when printing the images to warp the body into an extension of the self that defies clarity. He chooses visibility through his own terms, morphing the body into forms that resist immediate categorisation. Through this, the body becomes an evolving mass, allowing the viewer to individually interpret the ways in which bodies are constructed, visualising multiple intersecting forms of embodiment at once.