Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSir Cecil Beaton, CBE was a British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was also the favored photographer of several generations of the British Royal Family Just two weeks away from the release of the latest season of The … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLondon’s CUBITT GALLERY is currently presenting a solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar, archive curator, and radical sex activist Ajamu X, curated by Languid Hands. Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter“From Here to Eternity” marks the first major retrospective of UK based Canadian/Indian leading queer photographer, Sunil Gupta . Spanning five decades, this stunning and important new exhibition will bring together all the key series from his pioneering photographic practice for the first time, as well as presenting never-before exhibited works. Born in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWe first came across the work of London photographer HOLLY REVELL when we interviewed the legendary Brit alternative performance artist DAVID HOYLE. He shared with us her stunning photo-book David Hoyle: Parallel Universe which is is a limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between him and Revell. Revell … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSo this is what the rabid right wing in Europe are bursting blood vessels this week. Swedish lesbian photographer Elisabeth Ohlson has an exhibition in the corridors of the European Parliament Building in Belgium and included the picture above. Jesus surrounded by leather-clad muscle daddies has been branded “vulgar”, “disrespectful” and “blasphemous” by … Continue reading
