E.N.G. Jole

I'm a Los Angeles-based photographer, writer, and artist, with frequent travels to the Pacific Northwest and beyond. I have a degree in philosophy from Occidental College and I do research in linguistics and philosophy of language. I am studying to become a public interest & policy and queer rights attorney.

I'm non-binary; I'm queer; I'm polyamorous; I'm a leftist. My pronouns are they/them/theirs.

All art is political and being queer is political. Queer sex, queer love, and queer friendship are all art.
At the core of my artistic philosophy is the desire to create something deeply new. This way must transcend the binary of modernism and postmodernism, just as my own gender identity transcends the binary of man and woman. Art must understand both its ephemerality and its long-term impression, its birth as a product of nature and a product above nature.

For these reasons I seek to create queer visions of the world. I draw influences from the magical realism of Haruki Murakami, the vibrancy of Akif Hakan Celebi, the love of color and love and loss in themselves of Maggie Nelson, the love of Los Angeles by the art collective Department of Archives and Records, the political surrealism of Maggie West, and the imperfect understanding of Anthony Bourdain.

I shoot both film and digital.