Getting provocative
Alvaro Arróliga Alvaro Arróliga uses his art to highlight LGBTQ communities in conceptual artistic photographs. KAMILA VARGAS-GONZALEZ | Dallas Voice Intern editor@dallasvoice.com What catches this artist’s eye “isn’t considered cute,” Alvaro Arróliga explains.
A comment like this lingers in the mind of the Dallas-based photographer when he is setting up photoshoots in heavily-populated Latinx or Black neighborhoods or in locations that appear abandoned, dirty or trashed with industrial equipment.
Allie y Pedro Arróliga is a queer photographer and conceptual artist. His photos are provocative, but they also have cultural significance.
And at the same time he makes sure he puts a spotlight on queer people of color in DFW communities, creating his works around themes of destigmatizing the culture of queer, people of color communities in fashion. “My idea is to have people like me or people from my community, in a context of fashion or lifestyle, go against what they tell us fashion should be or look like,” Arróliga explains.
