A conversation with self-taught photographer Fabián Guerrero: a queer, first-generation Mexican American born in Dallas, TX.  Fabián’s work both reflects and is inspired by his upbringing as a first-generation immigrant and a queer brown individual; taking from fashion, film, poems, and music, the lifestyle and everyday survival, to shed light on his family’s history and the meanders of the brown and queer communities. “Queer Brown on Both Sides of the Lens” delves into Fabián’s emergence in photography, his artistic process, and the importance of place, Texas and the Mexican-Texas borderland in his work.

Fabián Guerrero is a queer, first-generation Mexican American born in Dallas, TX. He works with film and photography to document and create images that reflect on pasts, presents, and possible futures of our generation. Fabián’s work both reflects and is inspired by his upbringing as a first-generation immigrant and a queer brown individual; taking from fashion, film, poems, and music, the lifestyle and everyday survival, to shed light on his family’s history and the meanders of the brown and queer communities.

Laura Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in Latino Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.