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Cecil Beaton : The Queen’s Favorite Photographer

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  Sir Cecil  Beaton, CBE was a British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.  He was also the favored photographer of several generations of the British Royal Family  Just two weeks away from the release of the latest season of The … Continue reading



AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA

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  London’s CUBITT GALLERY is currently presenting a  solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar, archive curator, and radical sex activist Ajamu X, curated by Languid Hands. Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets, … Continue reading



FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: SUNIL GUPTA, A RETROSPECTIVE 

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    “From Here to Eternity” marks the first major retrospective of UK based Canadian/Indian leading queer photographer, Sunil Gupta . Spanning five decades, this stunning and important new exhibition will bring together all the key series from his pioneering photographic practice for the first time, as well as presenting never-before exhibited works.   Born in … Continue reading



Holly Revell : artist photographer and documenter of performance

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We first came across the work of London photographer HOLLY REVELL when we interviewed the legendary Brit alternative performance artist DAVID HOYLE.  He shared with us her stunning photo-book  David Hoyle: Parallel Universe which is is a limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between him and Revell.  Revell … Continue reading



Jesus and his Muscle Daddy Followers

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  So this is what the rabid right wing in Europe are bursting blood vessels this week.  Swedish lesbian photographer  Elisabeth Ohlson  has an exhibition in the corridors of the European Parliament Building in Belgium and included the picture above.    Jesus surrounded by leather-clad muscle daddies has been branded “vulgar”, “disrespectful” and “blasphemous” by … Continue reading



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