Photographer and filmmaker Austin Young has been documenting pop, sub, and trans culture since 1985 through portraiture.  An equal blend of Futurist and Symbolist, Young combines facets of archetypical beauty with a pastel color pallete and compositional simplicity that intensely and intimately explores his subject's emotional presence.


Young’s portraits have been featured in major publications such as Interview Magazine, OK, and Flaunt. His work has been the subject solo exhibitions and projects at Pop tArt Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Berkeley Art Museum (Berkley, California); and as well as groups shows at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA) and Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). In addition to photography and filmmaking, Young is one of the founders of Fallen Fruit, a collective whose work has been shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; Salt Lake Art Center (Salt Lake City, Utah), Machine Project, Matadero (Madrid, Spain); and ARS Electronic (Austria).