Jae Sloan
they/them
Jae Sloan is a photographer and the creator of Felin Corff, a body and soul photography practice based in Southwest Wales. Jae's work explores the body as the home of our story, our presence and our beauty, arising from a personal journey that began in front of the lens and grew into a practice of self-portraiture and connection. As a genderqueer and gay artist, Jae brings that same spirit of discovery to work centred on wholeness, presence and belonging, with photography as a way of returning to and honouring the whole self.
what does still here mean to you?
Queer people have always existed, in body, mind and spirit. Despite efforts across the world to erase us in full or in part, we remain. Still Here is a simple statement of that fact, and a complex one beneath its surface. To exist and to demand to be seen, in the face of whatever opposition or oppression we meet, draws on a sacred legacy of resilience, strength, power and what can only be called queer magic. Still Here is a celebration of the joy of being queer as much as it is a statement of defiance. For me, that legacy lives in the body. These self-portraits, under the title Still Sacred, come from a practice of returning to the body as a place of spirit rather than shame, honouring what religion and culture have too often told queer people to hide. Being still, being present in my own skin, is itself an act of both survival and celebration.
