James Hosking

James Hosking is a Chicago-based photographer and filmmaker. His work exploring gender, class, and labor has appeared in the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the California Sunday Magazine, the New York Times, and other outlets. He developed a multimedia project documenting older drag performers at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in San Francisco, a small bar that has had an outsized influence on the city’s LGBTQIA+ community. The photo series was later developed into a documentary titled “Beautiful By Night.” Vimeo chose the film as a staff pick, and it screened at multiple film festivals. He has received support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts. In 2018, he was selected as one of the Magenta Foundation's top emerging photographers. In 2019, his work was the subject of a solo show at the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco and included the following year in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' group show, “Come to Your Census.” He is currently looking for new gigs and collaborators in Chicago and beyond.