Collected Item: “With honor and pride”
Your Name
Imoutta
Your Pronouns
She/her
Instagram handle, if any
@imoutta_
Work Title
With honor and pride
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2024
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.)
Lesbian
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
This photo is from my “Tears Glow Blue On Black” series which is my way of witnessing Black life in the South as something sacred, layered, and alive with memory. I photograph Black people not just as individuals, but as vessels of place carrying generations of love, grief, faith, and survival in their bodies. I focus less on explanation and more on feeling, allowing history to surface through posture, gaze, and stillness. What once was is never truly gone, it lives on in how we hold ourselves, how we mourn, and how we love.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
A black-and-white image of a model standing and staring directly into the camera. A white shirt lays over one shoulder. Their gaze is steady and powerful, commanding attention through simplicity and confidence.
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
[Agreement] Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve Archive and Curve Quarterly?
Yes
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
I understand