Summer Raine Young is a fine art photographer from Baltimore, MD, currently living in Phoenix, AZ. Self-exploration through photography has become a necessity in further understanding their own identity and has given them the confidence to take up space over the past decade they have been openly queer. As someone who tends to manifest in their own thoughts, body language becomes a crucial way to portray their interpretation of matters that sometimes cannot be achieved through words, which gives Young a sense of control. Their work revolves around themes of queerness, memory, and home. Their cats, Tortilla and Guacamole, freely enter the frame as they please, and have come to represent the comfort Young needs throughout their journey of self discovery.
Young earned their Bachelor of Arts in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD in May 0f 2019. They are currently an artist member of Eye Lounge Gallery in Phoenix, AZ and Preparator at the Phoenix Art Museum.