Collected Item: “Las pingüinas”
Your Name
Camila
Your Pronouns
She/her
Instagram handle, if any
cam.pesse
Work Title
Las pingüinas
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2023
[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.)
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)
My experienced lesbian girlfriend and My late coming out at 36 year old, meant a clash of two women who fell deeply in love but had to rewire how to enact that love. the expantion i encountered once i could express freely My love for women in a tradicional country, changed me to My core, or really, My core is finally Expressing with no shame atached.
[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."
My girlfriend and I in an intimate moment in bed, where i showed her objects of my closeted and shamefull childhood, We found a penguin scarf and, funny thing, knew that lesbian penguins exists in the wild and adopt babys and stay together, so it became our thing, "las pingus". So this Little reminder of a sad past was now connection, experiencied with joy, honor, and only for US to understand. A little scarf ment hope, maybe we could have the family the rest of our latinerican society tries to deny. And of course, how much we enjoyed sensing our scents in each others hair, like two animals that found a treasure
[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