Their scandalous work was once banned. Now it\u2019s in museums. The photographer talks about a lifetime defying conformity \u2013 and their \u2018very active\u2019 sex life<\/p>\n
The peaceful Swedish city of \u00d6rebro is not where you might expect to find Del LaGrace Volcano, the US photographer known for their subversive images depicting LGBTQ+ communities, drag kings and sexual desire. Yet this is the place they have called home for the last two decades, having moved with their ex-partner, Matilda Wurm, an associate professor at the city\u2019s university. Now, their days are punctuated by walks around a nearby forest and trips to the local outdoor swimming pool with the pair\u2019s two children. It is a far cry from the life they Volcano previously had in London, where they lived in squats, attended S&M fetish parties and documented lesbian cruising culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do miss it. I think London will always be my city,\u201d Volcano tells me when they pick me up from my hotel in \u00d6rebro\u2019s (virtually empty) city centre. Halfway between Stockholm and Gothenburg, the former trading hub known for is medieval castle is \u201cnot a queer city\u201d, the photographer admits. Most of their neighbours don\u2019t even know they are queer. Volcano, 68, is intersex and calls themself a \u201chermaphrodyke\u201d \u2013 but these days they \u201cpass as apparently a little old man\u201d, they say with a grimace.<\/p>\n
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