LEE BULLITT
Lee Bullitt, a Brooklyn-based fine art photographer, creates images with a narrative quality that gives viewers an intimate look at private, emotional moments in time. Bullitt started exploring photography in her teens. Now, she says, “I don’t really look at myself as being in ‘a field.’ I’m an artist. For so long in my youth, I feared calling myself an artist because I felt I couldn’t live up to it. Just like I was afraid to be a lesbian or use the word when I was younger… because I thought that was something far more complex. It was like, ‘OK, here is this title, and it actually feels right, but I don’t know if I am allowed to be this.’ I didn’t think I was allowed to be an artist.” It’s being an artist that gives Bullitt the opportunity to connect with other LGBTQ creatives. “As a QPoC [queer person of color], I am almost fostered into this sisterhood of those who are dedicated to the community and to us being able to live and work and create the way we see fit. And to know that people have the potential to recognize honesty in my photographs, which are representations of the sexuality of women, the emotionality of women, in a way that is bold and unapologetic, I think is wildly rewarding.” –SLO
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