Subrosa and the Cult of Aphrodite

In Subrosa and the Cult of Aphrodite, photographer Jason Langer turns his lens toward Portland Oregon’s (The Rose City), exuberant and eccentric world of night performance, spending five years documenting and interviewing over one hundred performers whose acts blur the lines between disguise and revelation. Langer would venture into the night to make portraits of brave dancers who use their bodies for erotic and political declarations in front of hundreds of hungry eyes, capturing color pho...