A self-taught photographer, iel blends intimacy, politics, and aesthetics in a practice that crosses portraiture, performance, and staging. Through his images, iel explores Blackness, queerness, and transgender identity as sacred archives of resistance and joy.
His work spans fanzines, performance art, and community projects, seeking to preserve the stories that mainstream culture tends to erase.
Driven by tenderness and audacity, her gaze captures both gentleness and defiance, transforming each image into a living testimony of survival, love and revolution.