The February 2023 issue of Maclean’s magazine featuring Montreal photographer JJ Levine is set out to document his own community in his Queer Portraits series: Chosen Family.
Queer Portraits is a reference to the history of portrait photography, which usually meant going to a studio in your best outfit and having your picture taken—and, for a long time, was reserved for straight, wealthy, cisgender people,” Levine says of the ongoing project. “It ended up being more of a personal archive than I initially thought it would.