Tag: art
(Complacent Present) …. Fragile Future
The annual GFEST – Gaywise FESTival has always been one of our favorite LGBTQI events in London. This year although so many of us in our community are enjoying more tolerance and acceptance than any other time in our history as Laws are changed and opinions alter, there is a whole part of the world…
When Porn is Art : an interview with filmmaker Antonio Da Silva Da Silva is a passionate crusader who has always been fascinated by male sex and sexuality
So how do we define pornography in the ever changing sexual climate of society today? The dictionary is very clear indeed and reads “it is printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.” Yet as attitudes…
Nan Goldin : I Remember Your Face
The best thing about Sabine Lidl’s captivating documentary on the celebrated photographer Nan Goldin is that she so perfectly captured the brutal honesty of both the woman and her work. Since the 1970’s Goldin has been photographing unfiltered raw shocking images of addiction, desire and sexuality but unlike her peers these were not of models…
I AM A CAMERA
FotoFest, an international non-profit photographic arts and education organization based in Houston, Texas is mounting a new exhibition I AM A CAMERA : LGBTQ Communities Seen From Within that runs July – August 29th 2015 . The nine artists in this exhibition work directly with particular communities, which at times include themselves, in the creation…
HERB & DOROTHY 50 X 50
Herb & Dorothy Vogel were seemingly a very ordinary New York couple. He was a Postal Inspector, and she was a Librarian and they married in 1962, the year after they met and they lived frugally surrounded by cats in a tiny one bed apartment in Manhattan. What makes them extraordinary is since they met…
