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Wayne Bund is a photographer, writer, and teacher. He was raised on a farm in Boring, Oregon. He positions his camera to document people and systems – real and fictional – forging historical records. He crafts images that exist outside of normative structures, prioritizing feminist and queer agendas. His photographs highlight, obscure, and erase the body to celebrate the weird and the magical. He has worked as a professional photographer for 15 years and has photographed Jinkx Monsoon for Vogue Magazine. His work has shown at Seattle Art Museum, PICA, the Q-Center, and PNCA. He has received grants from the Ford Family Foundation, WESTAF Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and RACC. He studied at Pacific Northwest College of Art where he got his MFA. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon where he works as an Instructional Coach school teacher. He is a Pisces with a Scorpio Rising.