Syd London

 Syd London Holds a deep reverence for the power of storytelling and the photographic image. Her passion is using her camera and the strict ethics of journalism to bring visibility to subcultures who are often ignored, misunderstood or mis-portrayed. 

As a self taught photographer born in New York City, London began by photographing the communities that surround her. Since 2007, London has been photo documenting the intersections of the L.G.B.T.Q.I.T.S.G.N.C. (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Two-Spirit, Gender non Conforming) people in NYC with issues of homelessness, the NYC shelter system, poverty, access to medical care, disability, grassroots organizing, gender performance and private lives. A portion of her documentary Taking Back the Streets was featured in A New Queer Agenda published by Barnard Center for Research on Women in 2012.

London draws on her industrial design education from Pratt Institute when concentrating in areas of urban planning, disasters and accessibility. Her photo documentary The Invisible was exhibited in the State Houses of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Following Superstorm Sandy, London’s photo documentation of the responses of and actions by the NYC Public Health System and NYC Housing Authority were utilized by Mount Sinai Hospital and Harvard Law School, among others. London’s working documenting the short-and-long term impacts of Sandy and governmental failures. Sandy versus the People, was shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s first Visual Activism Symposium.

In 2014, Photoville, created by United Photo Industries selected London’s photo documentary Sandy versus the People for inclusion in "20 Emerging American Photographers” exhibiting at the International Photo Festival as Leiden.  

London's first solo exhibition "Ground Surge: Communities Rising" premiered at the Human Rights Institute Gallery in Kean University.  "Ground Surge" will be touring in 2016 - 2017, moving to the New Mexico in the Spring of 2016.