APA|DC Announces 2025 Recipient for LGBTQIAP+ Photography Grant

Announcing APA|DC's 2025 LGBTQIAP+ Grant Awardee, Omar Soto, a DACAmented photographer whose surreal imagery explores queer joy and escapism to navigate the marginalization they endure while living at the intersection of race, gender, and social class. Born in Tijuana in 1996, Soto migrated to the United States in 2000 and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona. 

“This award will assist me in completing my series through the ability to compensate my dedicated collaborators which a majority of them are queer and BIPOC. This will also allow me to pay for services like printing and framing as well as creating additional work along with keeping my work alive, “ said Soto. “Funding is crucial to any artist and I cannot express enough how much it means to me to have APA's support along the way. It isn't lost on me that many amazing artists applied and to be selected to win this is beyond my wildest dreams.”