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After about 32 years of making pictures with hardly any time to rest, Flash is standing a little taller herself these days, thanks to a retrospective exhibit of her various projects at the Pen and Brush Gallery in Manhattan.

Lola Flash’s retrospective at Pen + Brush, 1986 to Present, honors creative activism at its finest. … This historic retrospective of seventy-one photographs spans a life of advocacy.

Photographer Challenges Stereotypes in Career-Spanning Exhibition.

Flash’s germinal bodies of work continue to serve as an important touchstone for any student of photography, and certainly the lineage of art produced by black, queer women.

Photographer Lola Flash presents an engaging oeuvre of portraiture.

The solo exhibition presents work spanning three decades, including a cross-processed color photography series the artist made in response to the AIDS crisis.

The artist is known for her often feminist-tinged work that challenges preconceived notions about race and sexuality.

Flash focuses on upsetting normalized and oppressive standards of gender, age, and race.

For more than three decades, Lola Flash’s photos have challenged gender, sexual and racial norms. Nonprofit Pen + Brush hosts the first comprehensive exhibition of Flash’s photos.

Lola Flash wants you to see the world the way she sees it. “As an artist, I think that’s what I’m supposed to do,” she says. “I am supposed to invite the audience to see things the way I do.”