’Triptych’ is a meditation on provocative photographer’s life and work

When korde arrington tuttle was growing up in North Carolina in the 1990s, he felt like he had to live in a world with strict boundaries drawn around what he could do, and how he could act. korde arrington tuttle grew up in North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of korde arrington tuttle) - His parents nurtured his creativity, but the culture he was raised in was conservative and religious. He and his five younger brothers and sisters grew up in the church, and in predominantly white neighborhoods. "I was a faithful and devoted child,” says tuttle, "which meant internalizing whatever would allow me to continue receiving love and adoration from my parents and authority figures, structures and institutions." tuttle with his parents, Loretta and Perry, and his five younger siblings, Karsynn, Karigan, Kanyon, Kallaway and Kambridge. (Photo courtesy of korde arrington tuttle) tuttle felt denied the ability to understand his sexuality as a child and teenager. As a senior in high school, he was enrolled in conversion therapy, which tries to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual, through an organization called Exodus International.