Keith Shuaib
Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
1/22 Nolan Navarro
2/22 Corin Christian
3/22 Catherine Mhloyi
4/22 Corin Christian
5/22 Nolan Navarro
6/22 Nolan Navarro and Corin Christian
7/22 Catherine Mhloyi
8/22 Nolan Navarro
9/22 Corin Christian
10/22 Corin Christian, Nolan Navarro and Catherine Mhloyi
11/22 Corin Christian
12/22 Corin Christian
13/22 Corin Christian
14/22 Corin Christian
15/22 Catherine Mhloyi
16/22 Nolan Navarro
17/22 Corin Christian
18/22 Nolan Navarro
19/22 Catherine Mhloyi, Corin Christian and Nolan Navarro
20/22 Elianel_Clinton_01
21/22 Nolan Navarro
22/22 Nolan Navarro
Elianel Clinton - Silence
May 18, 2022
Back in 2018 I was heavily inspired by a news story that came out about
Giovanni Melton, a 14 year old gay teenager who was shot by his own father.
According to his foster mother, the father, Wendell Melton, shot Giovanni because he was against his son’s sexual orientation. Giovanni’s foster mother stated “he’d
(Wendell Melton) rather have a dead son then a gay son.”
Today, just as in the past, many people within the LGBTQ community are being
killed, harassed and treated unfairly simply because of who they choose to love or what gender, if any, they identify as. With Giovanni’s story in mind, I set out to create a photographic fashion essay specifically for the queer youth of today: a visual message of hope and hardship, something to inspire them to be themselves and to be proud of who they are, a message letting them know that they are not alone in this world and that many others share similar experiences with them.
