JJ Jimenez — Disco Pussy Syndrome
12 June, 2026 — 12 July 2026
JJ Jimenez, Amanda and the girls, 2006
Disco Pussy Syndrome is a photographic love letter to New York City, to its people, its places, and its fleeting, irretrievable moments. Shot on film and early digital cameras across the late 1990s and early/mid 2000s, these images gather together a world in motion: sweaty dance floors, queer nightlife, portraits of friends, quiet moments of intimacy and unexpected run-ins with strangers. This is not a document of a single community, but of a city and a time seen through the eyes of someone who lived it completely.
The series emerged from JJ’s rediscovery of her personal archive during the pandemic. Sitting with the photographs again, she found what was actually there: a world that existed before social media, before PRIDE month became a marketing campaign, before anyone was performing for an audience or chasing likes. People unguarded. Moments that were messy and real.
Through Disco Pussy Syndrome, JJ offers not nostalgia, but testimony, a reminder of the beauty in imperfection, the resilience held within joy, and the enduring power of a city that shaped her, and so many others.
Catalogue
JJ Jimenez is a native New Yorker photographer whose work explores themes of identity, memory, and queer subculture through intimate candid imagery. Raised in New York City and a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, her practice is characterised by a raw and unfiltered vision that investigates everyday experiences, personal narratives, and cultural intersections. Her self-published zine Disco Pussy Syndrome captures New York City in the late ’90s and early/ mid 2000s through intimate portraits of friends and moments of authenticity, transformation, and connection, with a strong presence of queer culture. Now living and working between Sydney and New York, JJ brings to Hillvale Gallery a body of work that is as tenderly personal as it is historically vital.