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- Drag Queen Cowboys documents Nevada’s transgender community in an epic landscape of classic western films.
- Jane Hilton was in Vegas when her curiosity was piqued by a poster promoting bingo with a sliding queen.
After just one visit, the British photographer was utterly captivated by the charisma and wit of the women he met during. An action night full of jokes, entertainment, hints, lip-synching songs, and dances” and decided to describe them as Bingo competitors. very glamorous. “I’m on a mission to photograph members of this community,” he told Dazed. “Though it took a while!”
Jane Hilton has toured the United States throughout her career and portrayed the extreme communities and subcultures of the vast country.
His “visual odyssey” has led him to create stunning cinematic images of cowboys, sex workers, burlesque dancers. Gun club members, circus people, and heritage Americana in search of contemporary American folklore.
Influenced by John Houston’s epic cinema and iconic western landscapes. Hilton drove the Queens of Vegas into the desert in their 66-year-old Mustang to photograph them in the Nevada sun.
As a tribute to The Misfits – the troubled film from Houston with Marilyn Monroe in one of the most dramatic and brightest screen appearances ever. Check out the gallery above for the images featured at the event. Below we talk to Jane Hilton about cowboy spirituality, subculture, and the most memorable moments of those. Who created this series of portraits in the Nevada desert.
Can you tell us Jane Hilton the American subcultures you have previously explored in your work?
Jane Hilton: As part of my study of American Culture and the American Dream. I enjoy documenting communities on the margins of society. Working girls who make a living selling sex in legal brothels in Nevada – the only state where it’s legal to do so; Cowboys and Their Lifestyles and Homes in the American West; Deer hunters in Texas; Burlesque dancer and “Legend” from the Nevada and California Hall of Fame. Some gunmen spend their free time shooting targets at the LA Gun Club, for which I wrote a book.