Top Surgery, 2026

Photography

84 cm x 174 cm

Currently in Berlin for an artist residency at GlogauAIR, Lee is developing a queer portrait project shaped by chance encounters and brief connections. Arriving without an established queer network, photographing strangers has become a way of learning the city through people rather than place. They navigate queer spaces both in person and online, exploring Berlin as they would a city they are only just beginning to know. For each portrait, they start by talking with subjects about themselves and queer Berlin, so the portrait grows out of the conversation.

Photo // Ksenia Proskuryakova