Luca Gaetano Pira

Luca Gaetano Pira is a queer photographer born in Italy. For years he used photography to explore topics like anti-speciesism, biocentrism, gender, prisons, mental health hospitals, LGBTQ+ and environmental issues. Among his latest works, the Muxes and the "third gender" in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the project: The Many Pink Triangles remembering the persecution of the LGBTQ+ community during diferent militar dictatorships. Archival work and recovery and safeguarding of the historical memory of the LGBTQ+ community, research work and interviewing witnesses still alive who can tell the story in the first person before these testimonies are lost. He collaborated with different magazines like Cuartoscuro, Spunk, El salto, La Marea, Vangardist,Archer, Dodho Magazine,ecc. And his work were exposed in Bologna,Berlin,Mexico City,Los Angeles,Tijuana,San Francisco, Rome,ecc.