Fre?de?ric Nauczyciel is an artist working primarily in photography and film. His imagery is influenced by American photography, contemporary dance, cinema, and painting. Nauczyciel immerses himself in familiar, but inaccessible and often invisible people and communities that comprise his subjects, including neighbors, families, traders, butchers, stewards, performers, and adolescents. Collaboratively constructing photographs, films, and performances with his subjects, the images of Nauczyciel’s protagonists reach beyond portraits of identity alone to create spaces of intimate entanglement between the sitter and the viewer. Since 2011 Nauczyciel has deployed his work between the predominantly Black neighborhoods of Baltimore and the outskirts of Paris to focus on the cultural phenomenon known as voguing, framing this art form as a performative language of resistance.