Helping him were Emma Grant, Alex Drost, Ramona Elhert, and Aldynne H. Roy captured 28 drag artists in and out of performer mode for the project, including Twiggy, Pepper, Gemma Nye, Vanity Fair, Tequila Mockingbird, and more. "As I started to bring more people on, I needed to kind of rein myself in because eight metal prints could be the cost of all of the trading cards for everybody en masse." "Originally I wanted to do big metal-canvas prints," he said. That's why he created Drag.Jpeg, a 56-card collection that celebrates drag, even though cards weren't the plan at the beginning. "Oftentimes, we like to throw things out into the ether with social media, but I wanted people to have something that's collectible." "This is actually my 10th year as a photographer, and one of the things that matters most to me is having tangible artwork that's physical and not digital," he said. 12 and 13 at Evolution Wonderlounge in downtown Edmonton.īy day, Roy is the CEO of Boundless Photo & Film Studios. His project will produce 100 decks of trading cards ( available for pre-sale until Dec. "There's an incredible spectrum of artistry within drag." "The main reason for the project was to highlight both the drag artists and the people who are under all the makeup," Brendan Roy, executive producer of Drag.Jpeg, told Taproot. A photography project that celebrates the diverse world of Edmonton drag will culminate in a set of trading cards and two events in January.
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