Collected Item: “Photographer”
Your Name
Laura Ciriaco
Your Pronouns
she/they
Instagram handle, if any
@woooptywuuu
Work Title
Photographer
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2023, 2025
[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.)
Latinx queer woman
[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)
Laura Ciriaco (she/they) is a Dominican-born visual artist whose work reclaims the body as a site of power, transformation, and ancestral storytelling. Through photography, self-portraiture, and experimental film, they explore identity, femininity, and the fluidity of self. Their imagery, often rich in symbolism and texture, merges the personal with the mythical, creating a visual language of strength, sensuality, and liberation.
- This is what surrendering to healing queer love means to me.
- This is what surrendering to healing queer love means to me.
[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."
Two nonbinary people covered in a white veil while kissing and holding one another.
[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