Bodies in the Sun
By Sheen Andola
Bodies in the Sun is a collection of photographs created during the summer of 2025 in Ottawa and across travels through Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. The series emerged from those journeys not simply as a tribute to Pride celebrations, but as an ongoing study of how queer bodies encounter light, warmth, and collective joy.
At its core, Bodies in the Sun explores temporality as much as presence. Sunlight becomes a metaphor for the fleetingness of the season, of youth, and of queer freedom in spaces carved out from heteronormative life. Rendered in black and white, the work resists the saturated palette often associated with queer joy or pride, offering instead a contemplative lens on softness, stillness, and the quiet radicalism of being seen.
Release Date: January 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-0699216-1-1
No. Pages: 129
Hard Cover
Shipping dimensions: 11" H x 8.5" W x 1" L
Bodies In The Sun © 2026 Sheen Andola
First edition published in 2026
This book began as a way of holding on to light, to laughter, to the bodies that gather when the world finally allows itself to slow. What unfolded instead was a record of friendship, of how we find one another in warmth, and how we stay when it begins to fade.
These photographs are not about perfection but about presence. They are traces of touch, fragments of shared time, small proofs that joy can be both ordinary and sacred. In every frame, there is a wish to remember how it felt to be free, to be seen, to belong.
Summer always ends, but the warmth does not leave us. It lingers in memory, in the soft echo of voices, the quiet glow of skin, and the way we return to each other again and again. What remains are the moments we made together, our small, bright world in the sun.