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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

Photographer Magnus Hastings celebrates the artistry and pride of drag

Close-up of Bianca Del Rio's elaborately made-up face, half-covered with an orange and gold hood, which she pulls up over her mouth with her hands.
Bianca Del Rio: the exhibition includes a selection of Hastings’s most famous portraits of drag stars. Photograph: Magnus Hastings

As a child, Magnus Hastings loved stealing his sister’s clothes and wearing his mother’s heels and feather boas, before he got “shamed out of being a drag child”.

Now, decades later, the award-winning photographer is celebrating the artistry of drag and the collective spirit of pride in his biggest exhibition to date at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery.

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