Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
His work appeared the German book Me schul Auge/ my Gay Gaze II, and most recently was a featured artist an exposn at Art Murmur, Oakland, you like his work, you will enjoy his portfol se, Instagram, Twter, and Flickr as well. A gay uple (left) kiss naked on a California beach, cir 1970.
Such a photograph would have been extraordarily rare jt s ago, but now is one of many published the book “Dads, ” a four-year visual archive of gay fatherhood across Ameri that began 2016. “I felt a ltle b lonely as a gay dad – although there are two of – but lonely the sense that all the other fai I knew were straight parents, ” Heynen said a vio ll, explag why he began photographg the seri.
“I also thought was important for (my kids) to see other fai wh gay dads. “For many people, the book will be an troductn to gay fatherhood.