About

During the early 90s, fine art photographer Chloe Sherman began documenting a generation of young, self-identified queers in San Francisco, capturing their collective creativity, pride, and strident defiance of cultural norms.

Chloe Sherman's photography reflects a nuanced view of an evolving community. Some of the people in these photos have become well-respected writers, directors, professors; others died from alcohol, drugs, or suicide. Some moved across the country, others married and settled down. Many transitioned from their birth gender.

RENEGADE San Francisco: the 1990s reveals the revolutionary attitudes of the people in her photographs and features over 30 photographic prints all shot with 35mm film. RENEGADE not only introduces the viewer to a group of uniquely San Francisco queers during the 1990s, but offers a glimpse of the freedom and flamboyance of gender bending, hopeful, fashionable young people during a pivotal time in SF queer history. This was a time when wayward youth, outcasts, and artists could show up, join forces, make new rules, work little, and live free.