Director Markus Stein’s searing documentary Baldiga – Unlocked Heart (Baldiga - Entsichertes Herz)—which world premiered at the 2024 Berlinale, went on to win the Mix Mexico Jury Award, and receives its Australian premiere at this month's Melbourne Queer Film Festival—is, in many ways, a familiarly tragic tale. A young queer artist finding their voice and... Continue Reading →
Wedgies, published by Baron Books, documents the wedgie subculture through the lens of photographer Benjamin Fredrickson. This series showcases male subjects provocatively positioned and being given extreme or atomic wedgies (where underwear is pulled up above the subjects’ heads). To coincide with the publication of the photographer's first book, there will be a solo exhibition... Continue Reading →
An upcoming group photography exhibition at the Bob Mizer Foundation gallery in San Francisco, Progeny: New Visions of The Classical Form, features five contemporary photographers—Lucas Murnaghan, Steven Menendez, Walter Jenkel, Phil Dlab, and Gabriel Goldberg—whose work is inspired by the iconic physique photographer Bob Mizer. Each artist reinterprets Mizer's legacy, showcasing new visions of the... Continue Reading →
Best known for his eponymous fashion label, designer Ashish Gupta has created a new limited-edition photographic book for House of Voltaire, Looking for now, the latest in their exclusive collaborations. Looking for now by Ashish. Courtesy of House of Voltaire. Featuring 64 original photographs printed in full colour, Looking for now is an intimate and... Continue Reading →
Brooklyn-based photographer Benjamin Fredrickson expands upon the tradition of portraiture created with analog film cameras by documenting the queer fetish communities that he is a part of. His work—which has been published in BUTT Magazine, Dazed, i-D, Interview, and The New Yorker—powerfully contributes to conversations around breaking down stigmas attached to HIV, sex work, and... Continue Reading →
On his 38th birthday in December 1984, budding photographer Patric McCoy made a commitment to himself that he would carry his 35mm camera with him wherever he went, take at least one shot a day, and stop whatever he was doing if anyone asked him to take their picture and oblige. Four decades on, the... Continue Reading →
Earth Worship, award-winning fine art photographer Steven Menendez's latest exhibition—running at The SoHo Project Space in New York Thursday, March 30th - Saturday, April 8th, 2023—features a stunning series of landscapes and sensual portraits of male nudes "in states of bliss in the majesty of nature". Earth Worship - Steven Menendez fine art photography exhibition... Continue Reading →
Explorations of intimate queer relationships by 48 LGBTQIA+ artists are currently on show at a two-part New York exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx and La MaMa Galleria in Lower Manhattan. Queer Love: Affection & Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings, photographs, sculpture, video, and multimedia works that celebrate queer carnality, camaraderie,... Continue Reading →
In October 2020, The Queer Review spoke with Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell about their stunning book LOVING A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s. It's a collection of previously unpublished vernacular photography depicting romantic love between men that powerfully and movingly reasserts both that love is love and that we’ve always been here.... Continue Reading →
Celebrity and fashion photographer Mike Ruiz, whose career spans over 30 years, has turned his lens to an ongoing portrait series focusing on the beauty and diversity of the leather community. Through meeting and bonding with leathermen during open call sessions, photographing them and collecting their personal stories, Ruiz has been inspired by their spirit of liberation and... Continue Reading →
