photography
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Fabrio da Motta getting all tied up in knots
The Sao Paulo based Brazilian photographer Fabio da Motta has developed quite an affinity with ‘shibari’ which is an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage. He has taken a series of very powerful images that explore bondage as an integral part of his compositions. His stunning body of work is very inspired by…
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Aaron Jay Young explores his queer male body
L.A. photographer Aaron Jay Young has a whole diverse body of work that includes being the guy with the camera on the set of Ru Paul’s Drag Race TV Show to a portfolio of portraits and real estate photography. However, this latest project is highly personal as it is a series of self-portraits that sets out the male…
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When Chicago’s Belmont Rocks were a ‘gay paradise’
Any gay man of a ‘certain age’ who grew up in the Chicago area in the 1970’s & 1980’s would have most certainly spent some summer days at Belmont Rocks the city’s lakeside gay cruising area. On a large grassy expanse punctuated on one side by a series of tiered limestone blocks that separated the…
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The work of East Village photographer of the 1970’s PETER HUJAR is recognized in a new Exhibit
There is a new Exhibit of the work of PETER HUJAR a quintessential East Village photographer in the 1970’s and 1980’s whose stark black and white images beautifully captured a shifting generation who would soon be almost decimated by the AIDS pandemic, which would kill him too. The show, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, looks…
