• Tuck and Roll, PhMuseum
  • J HOUSTON
  • /
  • New York, NY (& sometimes Pittsburgh, PA)
  • /
  • Work
  • Opal
  • Tuck and Roll
  • a scale of 1 to 10 (PDF)
  • /
  • /
  • Online
  • 2022 Silver List
  • Q+A, The Heavy Collective
  • Photographer of the Week, Capricious
  • The Queer Quarantine, Washington Post Magazine
  • Portraits in Transition, Belt Magazine
  • Our Picks, Paper Journal Mag
  • A Month in Photos, Booooooom
  • Photobooks of Note, Deadbeat Club
  • 35 Queer Photographers, W Mag
  • Studio Visit with Aleem Hurst, SECP (Audio)
  • New Poetics, Online Exhibition, From Here On Out
  • Barbara Weissberger's Mother (Writing)
  • Caiti Borruso: Wanting to Be Photographed (Writing)
  • Fraction Magazine: Issue 139 (Curating)
  • /
  • j@j-houston.com
  • available for portrait commissions
  • /
  • social
  • CV
Work
Opal
Tuck and Roll
a scale of 1 to 10 (PDF)
/
Online
2022 Silver List
The Queer Quarantine, Washington Post Magazine
Photographer of the Week, Capricious
Portraits in Transition, Belt Magazine
Q+A, The Heavy Collective
Our Picks, Paper Journal Mag
Tuck and Roll, PhMuseum
Studio Visit with Aleem Hurst, SECP (Audio)
A Month in Photos, Booooooom
Photobooks of Note, Deadbeat Club
35 Queer Photographers, W Mag
New Poetics, Online Exhibition, From Here On Out
Caiti Borruso: Wanting to Be Photographed (Writing)
Barbara Weissberger's Mother (Writing)
Fraction Magazine: Issue 139 (Curating)
/
social
/
CV
J HOUSTON
/
New York, NY (& sometimes Pittsburgh, PA)
/
j@j-houston.com
/
available for portrait commissions

The images in Tuck and Roll build a trans community situated in the Midwest, examining what a utopia could look like in domestic and private landscapes through the lens of magical realism. I center collected objects, hair, quiet performance, and unfetishized body and pull materials integral to queer nightlife into the daylight. Using close friends and trans siblings as stand-ins for biological family, these images manifest a desire to have unconditional relationships without letting go of the landscape I grew up in. Made in areas around western Pennsylvania, Michigan, and upstate New York, I shot the images on large-format film to slow down and give expense to trans portrayal across the region.


* Tuck and Roll (v.); The technique, almost always done while running, involves diving forward in such a way that your shoulder lands on the ground first, and you roll into a little ball. As you come out of the ball, immediately spring back up into a running stance, or move into a kneeling position.


2016 - 2021


The images in Tuck and Roll build a trans community situated in the Midwest, examining what a utopia could look like in domestic and private landscapes through the lens of magical realism. I center collected objects, hair, quiet performance, and unfetishized body and pull materials integral to queer nightlife into the daylight. Using close friends and trans siblings as stand-ins for biological family, these images manifest a desire to have unconditional relationships without letting go of the landscape I grew up in. Made in areas around western Pennsylvania, Michigan, and upstate New York, I shot the images on large-format film to slow down and give expense to trans portrayal across the region.


* Tuck and Roll (v.); The technique, almost always done while running, involves diving forward in such a way that your shoulder lands on the ground first, and you roll into a little ball. As you come out of the ball, immediately spring back up into a running stance, or move into a kneeling position.


2016 - 2021