Collected Item: “Girls are gross”
Your Name
Camille RIOU
Your Pronouns
she/her/they/them
Instagram handle, if any
@camilleriou_
Work Title
Girls are gross
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2025
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.)
Queer androgynous lesbian
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
This is how Chloé grew up, forced to be a girl, and ended up as a beautiful kiddo, how it's deep black inked in her body.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
On her ribs, Chloé wears this sentence tattoo: "Girls are gross". In the middle of our summer conversations, under the burning sun of the south of France, we spend hours talking about how we feel in our relationships, between friends and gossips, love and drama, hope and reality. Never is the need to define who we are to each other, we know we are bits of boys, of women, of the sand and the sun, of kids and somehow still a fragment of this dog we used to have together.
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
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Yes
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
I understand