Balam is an independent magazine of contemporary photography based in Buenos Aires. Through themes aimed at exposing the multiple realities and accompanying the struggles of minorities and dissidences, it promotes authors who seek to express and project themselves in a territory without distinction of borders. Its publication aims to transform, make visible, question and (re)invent critical discourses that enter into dialogue with social, cultural and political issues from an anti-hegemonic stance and with a poetic effect/affect, unusual in traditional photographic practice.

For its 9th issue, Balam explores New Masculinities. These masculinities are not new at all; ignored, they have always existed. Balam subverts and discusses the power relations that nurture normative — cis, white, straight, abled, dominant — notions of “masculinity” to celebrate queer people, trans identities, crossdressers, racialized subjects and the infinite ways of being within the LGBTQI+ community. Under a queer vision — and many eyes —, the different contributions gathered in this issue underline the role played by photographic practices in the contemporary codification, experimentation and construction of the masculine.

Balam 09 – New Masculinities
Launch – Readings
16.05.24