Your girlfriend’s favourite photographer.
Carly Hughes Horvath is an emerging Vancouver-based lifestyle and portrait film photographer. She first became enthralled with this slow practice in a fast-paced and digital world while in high school where she was inspired by Tumblr and the rise of aesthetic film photography in the 2010s. Since, she’s completely devoted herself to 35mm as a medium and has used it to capture alluring, sincere, and evocative imagery. Her photos have been featured in magazines including Monster Children, Nakid, Crazy Bastard, and Off the Rails. Hughes Horvath has also worked with many brands such as 1964 Supply Co, Pashunfruit Collective, and X9bikini and has been featured in half a dozen underground shows throughout Vancouver.
“Fear of Crowds”
There is no where more enigmatic and with more lore than the strip club. A constructed alternate world hidden behind windowless walls - a carefully curated fantasy. Controversial? Perhaps. But, the rich history of x rated entertainment stretches across centuries.
The venues themselves have never failed to attract individuals of many walks of life resulting in a perfect place to gain societal insights into abstract theories such as race, gender, sexuality, performativity, idolized bodies, transaction and labour.
While the clubs may represent a cultural cornerstone, what do we really know about the characters that bring these dream palaces to life and who are the subjects of such theories?
In her first solo gallery exhibition, Hughes Horvath has let us see behind the veil into the intimate parts of this livelihood. The show captures moments beyond the performers’ seemingly uncrackable facades to tell a nuanced and enchanting story of friendship, community, practice, performance, business and travel.
The opening night for “Fear of Crowds” will be Friday February 2nd, 2024 from 6pm - 9pm at Fingerprint Gallery located on the seawall in False Creek. 663 Market Hill Vancouver BC.
I, myself, you, me, we, we got drunk. Of course. Then we got hungover. Then we are sleeping till 4PM. Then we aren’t answering texts and calls. Then we’re fighting with the whole world. And it’s so cold out. Everything’s dark at this point too. Life blindfolded is what it felt like. What’s the point of stabilizing normal reality then? Let’s lose days into 2023 since Christmas sucked so fucking much.
