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Men I’ve Met - gregg, 2005
This was the photograph that started the project that has never really ended. It’s my go-to when I need to clear my head and just make photographs. The beginnings of my relationship with gregg were very, how do i put this, convoluted? We met at the ending of my very long first relationship…I needed comfort and understanding. Things ended very selfishly on my end. However, through time we have become really wonderful friends; he’s one of the few friends I have kept since I moved to brooklyn. He’s an amazing photographer and friend, and I truly love him dearly. This project is sometimes only looked at on the surface and in the beginnings I often got frustrated by it. However with the support of curators like Sylvia Wolf (who is amazing if you don’t know who she is), I realized that it would be something I would be working on for my entire photographic career, changing and evolving through the years. I’ve never felt comfortable as a gay man or in gay social circles. Making these photographs helped me through my social anxiety and allowed for brief sentimental connections. Sometimes even sensual, but never sexual. Through time the characteristics of subjects I pick have changed, they now aren’t only gay men, and I’ve changed the way I depict “nudity”. These highlights can get long winded and when you’ve written 20-30 pages on a particular project it’s hard to summarize, especially when it comes to each particular story. So this is a little bit of insight, and a special thank you to Gregg, for as a subject, he helped me start this project.
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(Source: matafari)
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Maybe we could express ourselves more fully if we say it without words. Should we try that?
(Source: freecocaine)
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Cate Blanchett in ‘The Aviator’, 2004.
(via missavagardner)
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‘When people run in circles it’s a very, very mad world.’
(Source: guypearce)
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jeff, 2010
When I think of Jeff, this is the image that immediately comes to mind. To be honest, I haven’t photographed him much. As much as I want to, there is something about keeping a little bit of my life just for me where I don’t necessarily need a photograph to hold onto. I have him to hold onto enough. Which has led to me really only photographing Jeff properly a few times a year. This is from our first vacation together in Costa Rica. To say it was magical is kind of an understatement. By the end of the trip I knew that this was the man I would be spending the rest of my life with. Funny thing about this portrait… we spent about a half hour in this pool under an awesome waterfall. We were getting packed up, to get back onto our horses when I realized I hadn’t taken any photographs. So, I made him get back in the water just so I could take this one portrait that was the last shot on a roll of film I had loaded in my Mamiya. It’s become one of my favorite portraits I’ve taken, and my favorite of him.
