Angela Jimenez is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, where she is a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Newark Star-Ledger and a contract photographer with the Getty Images Creative department. Her work has been honored by the New York Press Photographer's Association, Review Santa Fe, the Communication Arts Photo Annual and supported by grants from The Alexia Foundation student award and The Puffin Foundation. In 2008, she was chosen as a finalist for Photolucida Critical Mass and the Robert Giard Memorial Fellowship and as a semi-finalist for the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize prize. Welcome Home is her first book. You can see more of Angela's work on her homepage.

The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, which is held each August on private land in Michigan, was founded in 1976 by a group of young womyn as an alternative to the male-dominated music industry and society that surrounded them. It has grown into one of the oldest and largest lesbian feminist gatherings in the world. For more information, visit the Festival homepage.

Press:

Images from the premier exhibition of Welcome Home at the LGBT Center in NYC in the Dossier Journal

Video interview on The Advocate/Here TV

Slideshow and article by Daniel J. Wakin on The New York Times LENS blog

Interview and images on Curve Magazine online

Slideshow and article by Julie Bolcer on The Advocate magazine online

Video interview with Grace Moon on Velvetparkmedia.com

Article and interview in the Philadelphia Gay News

Events:

August 4-9, 2009: Official release of Welcome Home at the 34th annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Exhibitions:

May-June 2009 Fourth Annual Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show. Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington, IN. Group show.

June 2008 Pink & Bent: Art of Queer Women, The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, NYC. Group show.