Photographer iO Tillett Wright

Photographer iO Tillett Wright has shot everyone from Olivia Thirlby to Iggy Pop, but since 2010 she has focused her lens on average Americans, taking simple portraits of anyone who identifies as somewhere along the LGBTQ spectrum. Dubbed the Self Evident Truths project, it has taken the Brooklyn-based Tillett Wright across the country and back again, picking up famous fans (think The Vagina Monologues writer Eve Ensler) and thankful subjects along the way. "The really important thing to understand is that it's not a gay project—it's a humanist project," she explains. "I want to photograph everyone in this country who is anything less than 100-percent straight, because discrimination laws don't just apply to people in committed, gay relationships; if you're one-percent not straight, you qualify for [legal] discrimination—and for me to take your photo." The result—at least, as it stands right now—are 1,675 portraits, all of which will be displayed for one night only at New York gallery The Hole.

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