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JEB (Joan E. Biren) first introduced readers to her extraordinary photography in 1979 when she published Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, a radically intimate affirmation of the lives of women who love women. Over the ensuing decade, JEB’s practice expanded alongside the parameters of lesbian visibility, and her work grew to include communities of poets and filmmakers, politicians and physicians, mothers and daughters. The result was 1987’s Making a Way: Lesbians Out Front, a second volume of portraits no less revolutionary for their warmth and humanity. Making a Way includes more than a hundred images of lesbians at home and work, with partners and with allies, in thoughtful solitude and at the vanguard of political change—all illuminated by JEB’s camera in a spirit of loving collaboration. Featuring a collection of stories, remarks, and remembrances by each of JEB’s muses, as well as new essays by Cheryl Clarke and JD Samson, this reissue of Making a Way marks the long-overdue return of a passionately committed and vitally impactful vision. Comment end  

Joan E. Biren, known as JEB, is a filmmaker, photographer, and lesbian activist who has been documenting lesbian lives and communities since the 1970s. Her work serves to legitimize the lives and experiences of lesbians and queer people through honest portraits of everyday life. She was a member of the short-lived but influential The Furies Collective, a lesbian commune in Washington, DC, presented the touring slideshow exhibition The Dyke Show throughout the 80’s, and has produced several documentaries on queer topics. In an effort to destabilize the traditional power structures present in portraiture, she considers her models to be muses rather than subjects.

JD Samson is a musician, producer, songwriter, and DJ. As lead singer of the band MEN and member of the feminist-punk band and performance project Le Tigre, Samson has toured extensively and collaborated with numerous major artists, in addition to producing and composing highly influential work across the fields of music, fine and visual arts, fashion, and activism. She is currently an Assistant Arts Professor and Area Head of Performance at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where she is working on a range of collaborative music and performance projects.