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Em Higgins (b. 2002) is a photographer in New York, NY making images about queerness, the body, and female sexuality. They approach desire head-on through self-portraiture, confronting the perversion of self-pleasure. Throughout their work, photography is also a documentarian tool, fervently recording their loved ones in search of kinship and in fear of forgetting. From capturing strippers in trees to gay ravers in their element, they find the surreal hidden in the mundane of every day.
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CV
Press
A Sunday Night with the G Strings
Bias Cut Magazine - 2026
The Cult of DENNIS: AI, Therapy, and Gen Z’s Desire to Be Saved
The Knockturnal - 2026
Through the Lenses of Tisch Seniors
Washington Square News - 2026
I Went to a Play About Chatbot Boyfriends and Left Covered in Glitter
Partiful’s The Guest List - 2025
G-Strings, Birthday Suits, and the Life of a Showgirl
Partiful’s The Guest List - 2025
What Your July 2021 Looked Like
I-D Magazine - 2021
5 Up-and-Coming Female Photographers to Watch Out For
Sheesh Magazine - 2020
2026, Slide Show, Night Club 101, New York, NY
2026, BFA Thesis Exhibition, New York University, New York, NY
2024, Smoking Dog, Gallery 1P, Brooklyn, NY
2023, Aquamorphosis, New York University, New York, NY
2023, Polka Dot Kitten’s Femme Artists of NYC, Make Believe, New York, NY
2020, More Angst: A Photography Collective, 55 Delancey, New York, NY
Education
2026, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, BFA in Photography & Imaging
2019, Pratt Institute, PreCollege, Photography
2018, International Center of Photography (ICP), Black and White Film Photography