SIGNS OF TENDERNESS
signs of tenderness is an exploration into the formation of chosen family within the queer community, and the unique manifestation of relationships amongst those who identify as such. this project, manifested in a mixed-media photobook consisting of short interviews and photographs of the subjects, documents eight individuals within their chosen families as they exist currently, and how these relationships have evolved over the course of these individuals’ lives. all of our languages of love translate differently, but i can now recognize my own as a need for a sense of comfort, or familiarity, or home, in strange and new places. we create homes of our own where we seek comfort from things familiar. no matter the distance, physical or otherwise, we always find each other. albert camus said ‘never stop waiting for signs of tenderness’, and i never have. buy the print version here: https://www.francescatirpak.com/signs-of-tenderness
signs of tenderness is an exploration into the formation of chosen family within the queer community, and the unique manifestation of relationships amongst those who identify as such.
this project, manifested in a mixed-media photobook consisting of short interviews and photographs of the subjects, documents eight individuals within their chosen families as they exist currently, and how these relationships have evolved over the course of these individuals’ lives.
all of our languages of love translate differently, but i can now recognize my own as a need for a sense of comfort, or familiarity, or home, in strange and new places. we create homes of our own where we seek comfort from things familiar. no matter the distance, physical or otherwise, we always find each other.
albert camus said ‘never stop waiting for signs of tenderness’, and i never have.
buy the print version here: https://www.francescatirpak.com/signs-of-tenderness
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FRAN
How did you all meet?
EVA
We became friends on a Facebook
group chat.
ABBEY
I was friends with Carlyn, then she
moved to Aberdeen.
[Eva & Beth know each other from
the school she moved to]
FRAN
How do you feel your friendship has
changed since then?
ABBEY
[to Be th] We’re a lot closer than I
thought we’d be, than when we first
met.
BETH
It’s a bit mad, thinking that we’re
pals at all.
ABBEY
The odds were stacked against us.
EVA
Stacked against all of us.
BETH
Yeah, you’re right actually.
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