About

Bex Wade (they/them) is a trans non binary photographer based in the UK. For almost two decades, their work has captured expressions of otherness and outrage, communion and community, seeking to document queer lives in all their power and complexity.

Bex began their career as a self-taught photographer documenting the clubs and parties of the LGBTQIA+ scenes in the UK and New York. Recording these spaces both as a way to capture their community but also as a means of archiving a queer form of gathering and expression, Bex soon moved from the club into the street, documenting Pride and protest worldwide.

In recent years, Bex has gravitated towards overlooked queer stories, refocusing on those minoritised within the LGBTQIA+ community. With a special focus on the trans community, Bex is one of the foremost documenters of the trans experience in the UK. 

Bex Wade’s work seeks to make explicit the ways in which LGBTQIA+ people are rewriting narratives of a presumed cis-heteronormativity and resisting threats to queer communion. Their body of work forms a portrait of queer joy and power, rage and multiplicity, hope, kinship and belonging.

In documenting queer histories from inside their community, they create space for queer futures that are radical, galvanising and multifaceted.

Bex’s work has featured in contexts as diverse at VICE, British Vogue, BBC and The New York Times; in storytelling projects created for organisations such as Minority Rights Group International, Human Dignity Trust and the UN; for commercial clients like Dr Martens, Google and Getty; and on the walls of galleries and museums such as GIANT gallery, Museum of Youth Culture and VOMA. 

Most recently their work has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum and multiple works will now reside in their extensive photography collections in addition to being exhibited permanently in the Young V&A.

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Clients and published work include:

BBC             The Independent      
British Vogue It’s Nice That The Economist                                   The September Issues
BuzzFeed News                                        Modern Drummer
Creative Review                                       The New York Times
Dazed and Confused                                The Observer Newspaper
DIVA Magazine                                          Tom Tom Magazine
The Drummers Journal                             openDemocracy
Getty                                 Vice Magazine
i-D Magazine                                             Huck Magazine