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Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- GAY PICTUR
- 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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Vcent Keh of MASCULAR Stud and Oliver Zke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the lnch of A Portra Isolatn, a project explorg emotnal and physil space the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global panmic grew spe and impact, gay men around the world were asked to subm self portras that reflected their experience of the ronavis lock-down. The ia behd the llectn was to show that gay men are affected by the crisis a siar way to everyone else but more so. Livg liv which are often agmented between nventnal work ndns and their private liv leav many gay men whout the tradnal support mechanisms of heterosexuals and this shows through the separated by geography, culture and age, the men the imag all share fears for the future, lonels, job secury, and separatn.
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GAY PICTUR
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'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
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NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
A picture speaks 1000 words, and this is even more te for gay pictur.
Whether a portra of an LGBT lumary, a snapshot of a historic LGBT spot, a slishow of a Pri Para, or jt artistic shots of the sky, gay pictur are a ccial part of the life and history of LGBT people, and are ccial s documentatn. Has everythg unr the sun when to gay pictur.
It is precisely this faceted humany that photographer Stt Pastfield, a gay man himself, sought to pture Gay Ameri, travelg 54, 000 across 50 stat three years to weave a powerful, profoundly human taptry of 140 fathers, brothers, sons, and iends om all walks of life, religns, ethnici, and backgrounds, who happen to be homosexual mal.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
From lawyers to artists to teachers to farmers, his perceptive, eply personal portras pat a layered picture of ntemporary gay (male) life, the first-ever large-sle photographic survey of gay men always tell you to shoot what you love, and that objective led me to this project.