New Project Alert: Queer Elders
Queer Elders are the living record of LGBTQIA+ life. This project continues my long-term commitment to photographing LGBTQIA+ lives. For…
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ABOUT US
We're based in Brighton & Hove, but the work travels further than that. Through free exhibitions, workshops and cultural events across Sussex and the South East, and online, we bring people together – building real connections and making space for creative collaboration. Proud Studios CIC is a non-profit founded by award-winning photographer Chris Jepson, who has spent 30+ years documenting LGBTQIA+ lives, communities and culture.
OUR MISSION
We make creative projects with LGBTQ+ people and marginalised communities – work that's honest, visible and made together. Photography and art can do something that statistics and reports can't: they put a face and a story to lived experience. That's what drives everything we do. We want people to see themselves reflected, and to feel like this space is for them.
New Project
Queer Elders are the living record of our community.
This project continues my long-term commitment to photographing LGBTQIA+ lives.
This is not a project about age. Elder is not a number on a birth certificate. It is about what someone has carried, what they have survived, and what they know because of it.
>> More info here.
New Exhibition
Project Uncut: A Celebration of Queer Identity & Joy.
Queer portraits & personal stories in an exhibition on Brighton seafront and a limited edition zine opens 9th February 2026
Project Uncut brings together portraits and stories from more than 50 LGBTQIA+ people who speak openly about queer joy. The exhibition will run throughout February on Brighton seafront next to the i360 for LGBTQ+ History Month.
>> More info here.
New Zine
Project Uncut: A New Zine With 64 Pages of Queer Joy.
To coincide with the exhibition at the Brighton Seafront Gallery, we are thrilled to present a limited edition zine featuring over 40 portraits of LGBTQIA+ people and their stories of Queer Joy..
>> Get Yours here.
Queer Joy Tshirt
Time to get angry and this is the perfect tee to do it in… Queer Joy Is Resistance will be your new go-to favourite. We’ve spent a decade obsessing over the ideal weight, the perfect fit. Combined with this cool print, our t-shirt is perfect for your wardrobe.
>> Check out the shop here.
Two New Exhibitions At Google UK
Kicking off Pride In London week, I was delighted to be asked to show ‘Beyond The Binary – a celebration of trans joy’ at Google’s two London HQs. A collab with the Trans at Google employee resource group, there are 14 x A2 prints with accompanying text on display at Google UK Kings Cross and Google UK St Giles High St as the ERG Summer Series exhibition for the whole of July.
If you work there or are visiting someone at Google, please do stop by and read the stories of these amazing people.
