Photographer Paula Gately Tillman, a Baltimore native, is most well known for her 1980s and 1990s work in New York and Atlanta, documenting underground scenes and fringe personalities. Her photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including most recently the CLAMP gallery in New York City and CLAMP online; the Permanent Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA); E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library at the BMA; Decker Library at Maryland Institute College of Art; Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Sheriden Libraries, at Johns Hopkins University; Fales Library at New York University; and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Gately Tillman’s Fringe: New York ◊ Atlanta ◊ 1984–1997, My Love is a Thread Tied to You, as well as published catalogs from her recent exhibitions, are also featured in these collections. Several images of RuPaul and the cast of the American Music Show captured by Gately Tillman in the 80s and 90s appear in the New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2024 edition, published by Georgia Humanities and University of Georgia Press.