In the mid-1980s, Steve Raber turned his camera on Los Angeles after dark — the bars, drag balls, and after-hours clubs of a community rarely seen. His photographs are an intimate lens into that nightlife: unguarded, tender, and made possible by subjects who chose, freely, to be seen.

EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE SEEN WITH DIGNITY

This site presents work from the archive with a focus on these communities and friends he photographed with dignity