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Photographer and Original Plumbing maker Amos Mac has sent us a collection of beautiful pictures from a photo shoot with New York City based writer, visual artist and performance artist Stephen Boyer, one of the co-founders of the The People’s Library and editor of the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology. Stephen has just recently released his debut novel Parasite, which was published by Publication Studies in January and tells the story of a young boy, who runs away from home and becomes a sex worker in San Francisco. You can get a first impression of the book and its author by watching this recording of a reading Steven did at the St Marks Bookstore earlier this year.
The photos of Steven were taken at his home in Chelsea, where he lives in the basement of the former house of Geraldine Page and her husband and partner Rip Torn. The place is today occumpied by Page 22, an arts space managed by Page’s son Tony Torn. All pictures are courtesy Amos Mac.

Posted by ON April 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture | TAGS: , , , | Comments (0)

New York City-based photographer Veretta Cobler‘s book New York Underground 1970-1980 offers beautiful insights into the New York club scene of the disco era and overflows with glam, glitter and sexual tension. The book, which is completely kept in black and white, was published in 2004 by Parkstone International and is currently available for a sale price of 5,00$ on Amazon.com. It is also available in German (similarly cheap) and French (a little more expensive), although it is only the photographer’s introduction that differs. Here’s a little preview:

Posted by ON April 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture | TAGS: , , | Comments (0)

Shot by Zak Krevitt, jewelry by Chris Habana and Santiago Casanova.
More pictures on the OAK blog, more Juliana here.

Posted by ON April 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Fashion | TAGS: , , , | Comments (0)

This picture was quite popular on our Facebook page and I like it a lot, so I decided to share it here as well. It was taken by Los Angeles based photographer Catherine Opie for a Rodarte book published in 2011. You can order the publication for a reduced price via Amazon, fore more information about the book check out Artbook.com. I found the picture on the consistently amazing CruiseorbeCruised tumblr.

(c) Catherine Opie / Rodarte

Posted by ON March 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture, Fashion | TAGS: , , | Comments (1)

In 2003 Beijing/Canton based photographer 223 (civil name Lin Zhipeng) has started a blog, on which he published short texts and photographs, portraying his own and his friend’s everyday live. The website quickly became more and more popular and many followers started to get in touch with 223 to meet him, have sex with him and get photographed by him. At the same time the new-born photographer started exhibiting his photographs, printing first publications and doing shootings for fashion and art magazines such as iLook, S Magazine, beaux magazine or Vision Magazine. His series “In Existence” is currently shown as part of the exhibition “Secret Love” at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm amongst the work of other young Chinese photographers such as Ren Hang, who we just recently featured here.
About his work 223 says: “Sexuality and gender have become a central theme for me: the ambiguous; the frivolous; wet kisses exchanged between men; female fetishism; bodily closeness; sexual lust… some viewers flock in, curious, delighted; others snort in derision at the decadence and decline. But I just want to find a freer expression in my photo art. In China’s tradition-laden environment, it may seem as if we of the younger generation already have freedom, but it is freedom that we seek.” For a longer statement please visit the “Secret Love” website, for many more pictures please check out 223′s website. All pictures below courtesy 223.

Posted by ON February 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: | TAGS: | Comments (0)

boychild is an emerging performance and make-up artist currently residing in LA and soon to be based in NYC, whose work after a show at Art Basel Miami and collaborations with Hood By Air and make-up artist Robin Black has spread quickly on the internet during the last few weeks. My most recent contact with the young artist’s work was Jack Halberstam’s lecture “Going Gaga” (see below), which concludes with a video of boychild re-performing Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” during a show San Francisco – a performance which for Halberstam stands for a new sort of ”wildness” in pop culture that subverts and transforms ideas of gender, race and sexuality. The following collection of photos and videos show some of boychild’s most recent works and collaborations – for more of the beautiful make-up looks please check out boychild @ Instagram (preview below).

For Hood By Air S/S 2013, September 2012

@ boychild/Instagram

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Posted by ON February 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture, Fashion | TAGS: | Comments (0)

Photographer and writer Ren Hang was born in Changchun, the capital of the Jilin provinc in northeastern China. Today he lives and works in Beijing, where he has just recently graduated from the Advertising Department of the Communication University of China. His playful, bold and often grotesque photographs of nudes are currently featured in the exhibition “Secret Love” at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition runs until March 31 and highlights the work by contemporary Chinese artists, focussing on questions of identity and sexuality. You find more of Hang’s photograpy on his Tumblr and on his website, where he also publishes his poems and where you can order his self-publisehd books. For a short portrait of the artist by “Secret Love” curator Si Han check out the museum’s website. All pictures posted below where shot in 2012 and are published here with the kind permission of the artist.

Posted by ON January 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture | TAGS: | Comments (0)

Many pictures of Tokyo based photographer Daisuke Nakashima at first sight look like snapshots, but according to the artist they were all set up carefully, focusing on what he calls “the gap in the rhythm of life between myself and others”. Nakashima portrays his surrounding environment and the people within it, seeking to create distinct atmospheres, while leaving enough a lot of space for the viewer’s imagination. Most of the photographs below have been published in his photo book “each other” from 2008, which can be ordered both via Seigensha Art Publishing (Japan) or via Dashwood Books (US). For more of his work and current exhibitions check out his website.

Posted by ON November 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture | TAGS: | Comments (1)

The gang’s all QUEER (2009-2012)
Oakland based designer and artist Mekhi Baldwin has started The GAQ in May 2009 after unsuccessfully searching for a blog that caters to the work of queer artists of color. Over three years, the tumblr has become one of the most important sources for queer art and culture beyond the mainstream and has contributed to a new self-awareness in the community. A few weeks ago Mekhi has decided to stop working on The GAQ, so the site is no longer updated, but can still be visited as an online archive.

MIXED MEDIA
Amazing art tumblr by artist Julio Torres Salcedo, a self-described “27 y/o fatqueermexican”, who combines pictures of his own work (I especially like his shirts with drawings of new and old queer idols and role-models) with critical reflections on race, queer culture and the body + the work of other exciting artists. You can also find him on Twitter.

BLUE LIP BLACK WITCH-CUNT
Tumblr by artist and House of Ladosha member Juliana Huxtable, who you may know from her guest appearance in Le1f’s new “Soda” video or as a model for Bcalla or for photographer Amos Mac (see picture, with pink pics). Like her awesome Neon Ladosha blogspot site the tumblr focuses on fashion, arts and queer pop + neo-goth culture with a heavy bent on the work of queer artists of color. (UPDATE: The Neon Ladosha blog is NOT run by Juliana Huxtable Ladosha, but by, yes, Neon Ladosha. See comment below. Sorry for the misinformation!)

1-800 Friends/Thugs Mansion
“Welome to my little corner of misandry”: Fragments of contemporary queer culture + trans* culture + QPoC culture + pop culture by Oakland based accessorizer/artist Terry X, designer of the “Butch Please” cap.

The BANG Gang
Awesome all-gender hipster fashion tumblr with a focus on metallic fabrics, crazy prints, transgressive outlines and dramatic gold/silver jewelry.

FEMINIST DYKE WHORE
Colorful photo collection at the intersection of feminism, fashion and (black/queer) pop culture.

Queering The Game Of Life
“I’m a fat brown cis male queer who posts about stuff relevant to that, as well as other things that interest me, things I think are pretty, music, other forms of popular culture, and the occasional personal post with little to no consistency. I also run the body positive blogs fuckyeahchubbyguysofcolor and fatnudes, if you’re into that sort of thing.” Nothing to add.

THBGL
Tumlbr by photographer Tomoaki Hata, who’s photobook “The night is still young” about the Osaka gay/drag scene we featured earlier this year. Campy view on past and contemporary Western and Asian pop culture.

utopian asthetic
Exciting source for avantgardist fashion, design and art.

~ (Martyr Men)
Art, fashion, guys and porn posted by Kwame, a 22 independent pornographer. The site also features his own indie porn productions (= stylish wanking videos guys & re-edited porn). Via Okan.

MORE GOOD BLOGS + TUMBLRS

Posted by ON November 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture, Fashion, Music, Queer Politics, Web | TAGS: , , , | Comments (2)

Peter Berlin is the image of sex for the generation of gay men who came of age in the 70s. He cut an iconoclastic figure in his skintight pants and blond pageboy atop a sleek torso, pectorals as hard as his cock and as high as his cheekbones. He was a gay cult figure, a fetish object in multiple senses: both an icon for worship and sexual fixation. And the highest Peter Berlin devotee was Peter Berlin himself. The photographer, filmmaker, mixed-media artist and designer used himself as his own model and muse, elevating self-portraiture and naked, unashamed gay eroticism to new levels of artistic legitimacy. Now, some of his most evocative photographs are on sale, offered by the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City.

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Posted by ON November 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture | TAGS: , , | Comments (0)

Today is the vernissage of Montreal based photographer JJ Levine‘s solo exhibition “Queer Portraits” at RATS 9 Gallery, which will run until the 5th of November. The show will highlight images taken throughout the past two years, in which the artist continued documenting his queer environment by taking portraits of the people around him in their homes – something she’s already done since 2006. I’ve done a short interview with JJ, who also runs the hair salon Lesbian Haircuts for Anyone, to find out more about his work and the exhibition. All photos below courtesy JJ Levine.

How would you describe the approach you have with your portait works? What do you want to contribute to?

I only photograph people with whom I have close relationships, so my approach is a very personal one. I want to contribute to a visual culture of identity-based image making.

Do you see yourself in a certain artistic tradition?

On a technical level, my portrait photography is quite traditional; my approach to the medium is one of precision and care. All of my work is shot on film and I normally print using an enlarger in a colour darkroom. However, my subject matter is far from conventional.

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Posted by ON October 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: | TAGS: , , | Comments (0)

Hidden Souls is a dark + futuristic photo series by artist, photographer and costume designer Mustafa Sabbagh, which was shown at the Slam Jam store in Ferrara, Italy during the summer months. The exhibition – a collaboration with curator and stylist Simone Valsecchi - is already over, but the store has just recently published a really beautiful catalogue of the exhibited pictures, which can be ordered on their website (200 copies limited edition). Preview below.

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Posted by ON October 5, 2012 | CATEGORY: Arts & Culture, Fashion | TAGS: , | Comments (0)