Ugandas 1st openly queer photographer
Telling African stories
with the dignity they deserve.
aka Papa De is the first Ugandan non-binary queer photographer, award winning self taught multi anti disciplinary visual artivist.
Deeply passionate about documenting and archiving African Queer youth, they are dismantling stereotypes of beauty and gender identity, exploring notions of home and belonging, migration and displacement and how all these multiplicities interconnect with the current climate crisis.
Navigating the realms of black queerness within the diaspora, DeLovie's artistry is a defiant stance against the colonial gaze, aiming to deconstruct prevailing narratives of fetishization, victimization, and the objectification of black bodies.
Their mission extends beyond mere representation; it's about the preservation of dignity and the reclamation of African queer histories that have been too often marginalized and erased.
DeLovie
Kwagala
Their trail blazing and unapologetic advocacy for Queer African liberation and inclusion
is acknowledged both across the continent and and internationally, amplifying and raising awareness for the fight, right to exist, resistance and joy of queer Africans across the continent and the diaspora.
