David Wojnarowicz

Peter Hujar, legendary photographer of the subcultures of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s, immortalises the artist David Wonarowicz - 20 years his junior - in a burst of light. Together, they were to share a love story as fleeting as it was intense against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis. Their identities converge in this portrait in spite of different sensibilities: the conventional composition and the precision of Hujar's print capture the melancholic, rebellious and committed personality of the young Wojnarowicz, presenting a masterpiece of chiaroscuro portraiture.