Paul Baker Prindle’s photographic practice is founded upon the traditions of portraiture, but quickly confounds those traditions by using index, vernacular conventions, and the landscape to evoke senses of the body as an envelope of flesh reflecting the sacred and the profane. This work reflects a number of strategies for engaging The Real, queerness, and the practice of portrait making.

Within several bodies of work viewers will recognize inspirations that range from a Baroque articulation of the body sublime to the seedy gay scene of New York in the late 1970's and early 1980's. His photographs and prints include images of men or the indices thereof, places claimed by men who sleep with men, the abject remains of anonymous sex, and sites across the United States where individuals have been murdered because they were gay or trans.  Over the past three years, work on his current series, Mementi Mori, has taken him to twenty-three states and the District of Columbia as he documents the haunting sites of homophobic murders. 

Paul Baker Prindle has exhibited in Austin, Baton Rouge, San Francisco, St. Louis, New York City, and Madison, Wisconsin.  His work has been published by Out and Out.com, Advocate.com, Our Lives, and Männer, and has received mention in Art Forum Diary.  Baker Prindle is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.  He divides his time between New York City and Madison, Wisconsin where he teaches at Edgewood College.