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Today the Journal is entirely devoted to the exhibition of the Pride Photo Award, which opened this weekend in Amsterdam. The Journal was made entirely by Christian Caujolle. This is the great talent of Christian, to discover a photography that is not frequently published.
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Being lesbian or bisexual still signifies harsh living conditions in modern China. Since 1997 it is not longer illegal to be homosexual and in 2001 homosexuality has even been removed from the Ministry of Health's list of mental illnesses. But despite all loosened restrictions and the increas...
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The world as a whole may have come around somewhat to the idea that their exist a whole spectrum of sexualities from heterosexual to homosexual and beyond. In Africa, a continent who's societies on the whole are still very traditional, such ideas are only now starting to be raised as an ent...
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In the small town of Jogiakarta, Central Java, there is a community of threehundred Muslim transgenders that are trying to defy gravity! They gather together to pray Hallah, they adopt children from the street, they run controversial NGOs and they support one another in the quest to gain m...
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The Secret History of the Mongols, considered to be the oldest Mongolian language literary work, is the single significant native account of Mongolia's rise to power around the 12th century AD. Providing a clear narration of the vicissitudes that brought a dispersed land of nomads to beco...
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This series of diptychs presents pairs of seemingly different "heterosexual couples" interacting intimately in a studio setting. Upon closer examination, the viewer will recognize that each pair of couples is comprised not of four models, but two. This parody of prom-style portraits challenges ...
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Solitary Fruit 10 of a series of 20 (mostly) black & white analog photographs made in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama: the Deep South. At the end of 2011 I followed the 1959 route of the (white) American writer John Howard Griffin, who in his book Black Like Me reports of his travels...
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While living in Vancouver I resided in the demonized area known as the Downtown Eastside (DTES). I worked part-time in some of the residential housing programs and produced this series as an independent photographer. I met some of these drug-addicted subjects through work, met others i...
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In Singapore, public parks serve as a recreational space day and night. However, some leisure activities such as cruising fall outside of the parks prescribed usage. Public stigma against such alternative nocturnal activities dictates a need for secrecy, but privacy in a public s...
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In Loser 2011 I embody the champions of the post-soviet era in this country – Martin has three children with different women and he believes in marriage, Veiko works in Finland and hates immigrants, and Lauri is a closeted homophobe.
The expected values of Estonian citizens are nat...
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Being "positive" twenty years ago was certain to result in death.
The gay community had to learn how to deal with it and, although so many people died, nobody knows yet why a few didn't. Rejected by society because of their double condition (homosexual and hiv +) and even by the ga...
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"Transportraits" is a series of 20 x 24 inch portraits of transgendered men, photographed against an oil-painted backdrops that I create using the landscape painting instructions from Bob Ross', The Joy of Painting. Photographers are thought of as capturing a replica of the original su...
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Parallel to the documentary film 'I am Gay and Muslim', I made a photo series of the men who are part of the film or contributed to it. This photo document gave them an opportunity to show themselves, facing the many dilemmas young, gay Muslims are struggling with in their quest ...
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Bananas are bananas because people say they are. Gender is constructed the same way. One is a woman because people say one is. One is a man because people say so. Therefore, gender is no more than a performative act, a field of expression, interpretation and manipulation.
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This project, entitled “Where The Boys Are,” takes its name from the Connie Francis song about longing and young love. Consisting of large scale photographs and appropriated imagery, I use gay iconography and specific references to the 1950s, 60s and 70s, to examine life before t...
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Mother and son relationship has often played an important role in the ideas about homosexuality. These portraits explore that relationship.
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