Outsider/s is the debut monograph by emerging queer photographer Oli Raptor. This strictly limited edition hardback (only 200 copies) is a full-colour, unfettered celebration of queer bodies, pastoral landscapes, and the freedom to exist beyond convention.
Shot entirely outdoors across London, America, and Europe, Outsider/s places queerOutsider/sbodies in nature—unbound, visible, and defiantly present in spaces they’ve often been excluded from.
Defiant, tender, joyful, and totally unfiltered, it’s a visual stunning memoir spanning Oli’s youth in Baltimore to his life now in London. A response to online censorship and a love letter to queer visibility. The book launched to great success at Photo London last month.
Includes an essay by writer and curator Dominic Johnson titled Cruising, or the free circulation of sexual capital.
‘Oli Raptor depicts a world in which the free circulation of sexual capital is not a dream but a reality’ Dominic Johnson.
Published by Bona Varda
254 × 203 mm Hardback 184 pages Limited edition of 200 copies May 2025 ISBN 978-1068206801
