Sherman combined her appreciation of formal art with a raw documentary style, capturing the swirl of street and nightlife with a careful eye to composition, colour, and the flow of movement across the frame.--Madeleine Pollard "AnOther"

Sherman's colorful, intimate, impulsive and affectionate photos speak loudly for the wild, untethered souls in them, as well as the era they were living through.--Rae Alexandra "KQED"

Chloe Sherman offers a deliciously raw look into one of the most turbulent periods for the city's queer community, which was vibrant not only in America but also globally.--Max Wiener "Musée"

The images in "Renegades" depict youth, joy and the era's rebellious aesthetic, whether in raucous nights out, intense and intimate moments between couples or seemingly-spontaneous glances at the camera.--Suyin Haynes "CNN: Style"

While queer history often gets erased from mainstream memory, "Renegades" stands as a monument to this vanguard in the Mission that was figuring out the progressive politics that many now take for granted.--Brandon Yu "San Francisco Chronicle"

Each of these photos possesses a certain fascinating, hard-to-define almost religious mystery which gives those who look at them a direct route into an era of freedom, an era of joy.-- "Harper's Bazaar France"

Renegades' captures the vibrant chaos of a bygone era, where every corner held a story, and every gathering defied convention.--Crispin Long "New Yorker"

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Pub date: 2023-09-19

Length: 128 pages