Image of Midgitte Bardot / Tammy Reynolds shortlisted for the 2023 Portrait of Britain book

Spring is Queer Day Festival - 20/05/2023

Join me for a free talk about my work online and in person at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol and on zoom. Wednesday November 16th 6.30pm - 7.30pm. Click here to register.

Our photobook collective will be at BOP – Books on Photography – the annual photobook festival from Martin Parr Foundation and The Royal Photographic Society - 08 to 09 OCT at MPF gallery, RPS House and the Paintworks Event Space, Bristol.

People Like Us at She Her They Them - Glasshouse Takeover 10/09/2022

People Like Us take over the Glory for an epic celebration of the project so far - join us!

Catch People Like Us #ladsladslads Live Shoot at Duckie Gay Shame for ‘Straight Pride’!

People Like Us have a stall at the Raze Queer Summer Fayre - Saturday 18th June - come say hi and check out our new merch!

Some of my photos featuring David Hoyle, Drag Syndrome, Duckie, Not Your Circus Dog Collective and participants from **People Like Us**, plus a short film I made with **Travis Alabanza** and Nando Messias are on display at the Barbican Centre - in the **Curve Gallery** - part of 'Out and About' - Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute - 1/3/2022 - 21/3/2022.

Exhibition for Shout Festival - 22/11 - 19/12/2021 Hurst Street, Southside, Birmingham, B5 4TD.

Grain Projects - Photo Cafe - online talk about people Like Us and an upcoming exhibition for Shout Festival with Laura Chen.

**Lives from the Archives** - I wrote a blog for Bishopsgate Institute where some of my work is archived about how I started photographing queer performance, and how photography can be a way of archiving and documenting history.

Very happy to have shot Petra for this cover and feature for the Women’s Institute magazine.

I did an Instagram Live with Redeye Photography Network - click to listen.

I wrote a feature reflecting on bits of my identity and journey as a queer artist for You Otta Know - A queer zine by Harry Clayton-Wright

My first ever podcast! We talk about how I became an artist and a photographer of the superstars of the queer underground and my current project People Like Us...

Our new zine is now available to preview and order from the Shout Festival website!

Thrilled to be part of Shout Festival this year who have commissioned me to make a zine and do a talk!

Our campaign Pride Inside - a CELEBRATION OF QUEER LIFE is to live on permanently on Google Arts & Culture.More than 200 items from the nationwide LGBTQ+ billboard campaign are now being displayed online including site photography and unseen ima… — Our campaign Pride Inside - a CELEBRATION OF QUEER LIFE is to live on permanently on Google Arts & Culture yay!
More than 200 items from the nationwide LGBTQ+ billboard campaign are now being displayed online including site photography and unseen images!
Link to my page here

Thrilled to have photos up on billboards across the UK for ‘Pride Inside’ this month (June 2020)

Create Arts put up a blog about the workshops I did with Metro Charity’s LGBTQI youth group - it was such a joy.

‘People Like Us’ feature on Scottee and Friends blog

Thrilled to be part of the Scottee & Friends event ‘An Uncomfortable Relationship with Masculinity’ at the Barbican which will be staged within their Masculinities: Liberation through Photography exhibition. ‘People Like Us’ will be doing a live… — Thrilled to be part of the Scottee & Friends event ‘An Uncomfortable Relationship with Masculinity’ at the Barbican which will be staged within their Masculinities: Liberation through Photography exhibition. ‘People Like Us’ will be doing a live photoshoot and taking up space next to Catherine Opie’s seminal series ‘Being and Having’ from 1991!

Happy to have work showing in this years Queer Art(its) Now exhibition - 3 years running now.

Work in Louche Magazine - a new “dragazine” which aims to look backwards and forwards at drag, queer performance and the cultures that surround it…

Work on display at the Wing:The Salon at The Wing is a permanent exhibition with rotating artworks by female identifying and non-binary artists displayed all throughout the spaces. — Work on display at the Wing:
The Salon at The Wing is a permanent exhibition with rotating artworks by female identifying and non-binary artists displayed all throughout the spaces.

I spy our image large as life on the Southbank - would have been nice to have been asked but at least they credited me!!

Read the Muse’ wonderfully articulated blog following my archive launch. — **Read the Muse’ wonderfully articulated** **blog** **following my archive launch.**

I’m showing some archival pieces from my DARKROOM installations, one of my Transformations pieces and my David Hoyle book will be for sale.

Completing the trilogy from Pilot Press, I have a piece in ‘A queer anthology of rage’

My Archive Launches at Bishopsgate Institute Feb 27th 2019 - book here. — My Archive Launches at Bishopsgate Institute Feb 27th 2019 - book **here**.

My interview with Read the Muse about my journey into photography and the brilliant people I work with.

Our DARC TRANSFORMANCE blog for Live Art Uk

My image in 'Over there, a queer anthology of joy', the second anthology from Pilot Press. https://tenderbooks.co.uk/products/over-there-a-queer-anthology-of-joy — My image in '*Over there, a queer anthology of joy',* the second anthology from Pilot Press. https://tenderbooks.co.uk/products/over-there-a-queer-anthology-of-joy

Screen Shot 2019-12-03 at 15.43.10.png — My Photobook is now on sale in a number of shops in London!

Including The Photographers Gallery, Foyles, Gays the Word, LADA Unbound and Bookseller Crow.

My feature for Loverboy Magazine. http://www.loverboymagazine.com/jacqui-potato/

Proud to have a portrait in this queer zine. https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/434xb9/this-zine-explores-loneliness-in-the-queer-community

OMG David is on radio 4's Loose Ends and Clive Anderson mentions the book!

Sara Cox was co-hosting and here she is enjoying the book and talking about the high heels gene with David!!

Look who's in the window of VFD! We'll be there for a month - this is a bit of a preview of the book with unseen run sheets and images from it.

I wrote a piece for Run Riot. Parallel Universe: Holly Revell on Photographing and Collaborating with David Hoyle — I wrote a piece for Run Riot. **Parallel Universe: Holly Revell on Photographing and Collaborating with David Hoyle**

'David Hoyle: Parallel Universe' Official Book Launch Wed 18th October 2017 at the Bethnal Green working Mens Club from 6 - 9pm. Email Please RSVP hollyrev@hotmail.co.uk or join the Facebook event.

Lovely articles about my upcoming book and David Hoyle in Huck magazine and This is Cabaret.

For this months SULLY night at DARC HQ on 23rd May I'll be talking about my book project and inviting others to contribute on similar themes - jin the Facebook event or email us info@darc.media to rsvp!

I am currently crowdfunding for my new photo-book 'DAVID HOYLE PARALLEL UNIVERSE'. Please back/share/support as you can!!

A Portrait of Gillet Square - I'm running a series of FREE photography workshops for locals in Gillett Square on Wednesdays 1 – 3pm: 15th March – 12th April 2017. Email hollyrev@hotmail.co.uk for info. — **A Portrait of Gillet Square** - I'm running a series of FREE photography workshops for locals in Gillett Square on Wednesdays 1 – 3pm: 15th March – 12th April 2017. Email hollyrev@hotmail.co.uk for info.

I am excited (and a little daunted!) to be presenting my work at the Manchester Drag Symposium this month!! http://www.lifesadragmcr.co.uk/the-manchester-drag-symposium-2/

I'm extremely proud to have one of my photographs of David Hoyle featured on the home page of 'The people's history of LGBT+ Life in Britain' part of a new BBC initiative ... !! http://peopleshistoryoflgbt.co.uk

I'm hosting the next Sully night at DARC HQ Tuesday 5th July!https://www.facebook.com/events/637196263105446/ — I'm hosting the next Sully night at DARC HQ Tuesday 5th July!
https://www.facebook.com/events/637196263105446/

I'm showing some of my Transformations in this exhibition at Espacio for Pride 22nd June - 3rd July.

"We R is an art exhibition alongside Pride 2016 that celebrates and challenges the limits of being equal and the right to be different, reaching out to all those that are not able to be themselves and embracing the authenticity of the LGBT+ community within a positive array of role models."

https://www.facebook.com/WeRexhibition/?fref=ts

A lovely review of my exhibition from Huck magazine!

http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/pictures-transformation-drag-queen-self/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1027176720694382/Transformations is a series of images by Holly Revell. They reflect the transition from drag back to original self. The images echo post-performance emotion and fatigue, revealing the bodies which sup… — https://www.facebook.com/events/1027176720694382/
Transformations is a series of images by Holly Revell. They reflect the transition from drag back to original self. The images echo post-performance emotion and fatigue, revealing the bodies which support their queens and the traces left behind post-drag. They are about the relationships the artists have with their drag-selves and how they connect.
The series includes images of David Hoyle, Scottee, Ginger Johnson, Jonny Woo, Jacqui Potato, Russella, John Sizzle, A Man to Pet, Dr. Sharon Husbands, Le Gateaux Chocolat, Myra Dubois, Bourgeois and Maurice, Holestar, Lavinia Co-Op, Fagulous, Miss Cairo, Babs (Legs and Coq) Cheryl Dole, Cherry Liquor, Titus Groan, Vanity Von Glow and Tom Harlow.
The work is also about time, process and the capabilities of photography. The images are made in camera recording the whole transition in one shot, the titles reflecting the time it took to transform. The longest exposure was 1258 seconds, whereas the shortest was just 245 seconds, an average photo takes a fraction of a second.
The exhibition will run from Wednesday the 9th March until Friday the 1st April at Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, E2 9DJ, with an opening party on the 9th March from 6-9pm to view the works and enjoy some performance from a few of the participants.
The space will be open to visitors between 11am and 5pm weekdays Wednesday to Friday.
The exhibition will continue at The Glory, 281 Kingsland Road, E2 8AS with portraits from the series on display in the main bar area during pub opening hours from Monday the 7th March until Saturday the 19th March with a special viewing event on Monday the 14th March.

DARC (Documentation Action Research Collective)

DARC is a collective of artists who work in different media creating documentation and promotional material for artists.

We believe that the documentation of artist’s work is not just an act of preservation, but a creative act in itself. We consider our work a process of collaboration, a dialogue, a responsibility and an art form of its own.

www.darc.media

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Published work

November 30, 2018

Published work in a trilogy of zines by Pilot Press.