With a career that spanned over 50 years, Barbara Hammer is widely recognised as a pioneer of queer cinema. Hammer created a groundbreaking body of experimental work illuminating lesbian histories, lives and representations while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of experimental cinema. This exhibition highlights her early photographic output, a series of extraordinarily lyrical and poignant works made in the 1970s.The works embody a lyrical exploration of sexuality, women’s pleasure and freedom. Throughout the 1970s, Hammer toured the United States, Africa, and Europe, making film after film about women and the lesbian experience, both of which had seldom been seen by a woman, for women on screen before. She made a slew of now-legendary experimental films, including Sis­ters! (1973), Dyketactics (1974), Multiple Orgasm (1976), Sappho (1978), and Double Strength (1978), more or less inventing lesbian cinema at a time when such material had largely been relegated to the pornographic imagination of male artists and filmmakers. During this prolific period, Hammer photographed her travels, her lovers, moments of community and kinship between her collaborators on set, private and public performances, friends, strangers. Through these photographs, Hammer explodes traditional notions of female sexuality by showing it for what it is: complex, messy, abstract, human.