Based in New York City, photographer Vivienne Maricevic has spent decades documenting the evolving landscapes of sexuality, gender identity, underground culture, and human expression. Since 1975, her work has captured intimate and often unseen worlds with honesty, sensitivity, and remarkable access. Through monographs including Male-to-Female (La Cage Aux Folles), She Shoots Men, Male Burlesk Times Square, NYC 1980–1981, and New York Then 1986–1992, Maricevic preserves fragments of nightlife and communities that once defined a raw and liberated era of New York City. Her photographs offer both historical testimony and artistic exploration, documenting spaces, performers, and identities
that largely disappeared following the AIDS crisis.

With rare permission granted inside iconic venues such as the Show World, Pussycat, The Avon, Ramrod, Big Top Lounge, and Show Palace Folles, Maricevic created a body of work that stands today as an important archive of queer history, performance culture, and gender expression. Her ongoing practice continues to explore the broader spectrum
of identity through portraits of trans individuals, drag queens, drag kings, and contemporary underground culture. always approached with humanity, curiosity, and respect. Vivienne Maricevic’s photography is not only documentary in nature, but deeply personal: a visual preservation of communities, freedom, and self-expression across generations.