Jaylan Rhea
Jaylan Rhea (b.1994) is an African American nonbinary photographer from North Carolina, whose work is a tender meditation on human connection, intimacy, and queer identity. They draw inspiration from personal memory, relationships, and the ways domestic and public spaces shape experience. Rhea studied at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Their work has been featured on Vogue.com and at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Rhea’s work highlights vulnerability, resilience, and the beauty found in authentic human connection.
Selected Works
Mark Anthony Brown Jr. Studio Visit
Field of Dreams BTS
Coolboy Rebel Studio Visit
CTWO MAAP Program 2024
Personal
Love To Love You
Email
@nonbinaryonthecouch
Mark Anthony Brown Jr. Studio Visit
In their studio at UNC Chapel Hill, Mark moves through canvases and tools, small objects and sketches telling the quiet story of an artist’s daily practice.
Love To Love You (Ongoing)
Love to Love You unfolds in quiet, intimate spaces and the subtle rhythms of love in daily life, with accompying offering from each sitter about what love means to them in modern time. Photographed between North Carolina and New York.
CoolboyRebel Studio Visit
Studio visit with Durham based artist Blaine of CoolboyRebel.
Field of Dreams at Green Road Park
BTS of Field of Dream at Green Road Park Installation in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mark and support assembling hoops, chains, and pallets into a memory-rich monument to aspiration.