These five photographs, from the pivotal series "Faenza" by Miguel Ángel Rojas, are part of the permanent collection of the MoMA.

In these, Rojas documents clandestine sexual encounters between homosexual men in the Faenza Theater, a decadent B-movie cinema built during the 1920s in Bogotá.

Exploring furtively this subculture of sexual acts in the shadows of public space, Rojas photographed the largely invisible community with a camera hidden in his suitcase or under his jacket. He set the camera's focus without looking through the viewfinder, using the movie screen as the only source of light. The resulting images are ghostly records of the spaces and experiences through which a community of men and Rojas himself began to understand and express their sexuality.

Text and images: MOMA NY @themuseumofmodernart

*Gallery label from Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980, September 5, 2015–January 3, 2016.

Miguel Ángel Rojas @miguelangel.rojasortiz 

Serie Faenza: Antropofagia

1970s

Silver gelatin print 

8.9 × 12.7 cm each