Paco Y Manolo

Paco Y Manolo is a Spanish photography duo that takes some of the frankest images I've seen in a long time. They basically take pictures of nude men, but in a sort of vulnerable, non-pornographi way. Really, it's very interesting art. Or at least to me it is. Anyhow, I thought I'd share a few images, just to spread the love. Thanks to Slava Mogutin's blog for introducing me.

Slava Mogutin

I wanted to blog for a moment about one of my favourite photographers/artists, Slava Mogutin. Mogutin is famed for being exiled from Russia for his queer writing, and specifically for "malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence." Anyhow, I'm going to post a few of my favourite photos of his, and then I'm going to give you a link to his site, but I do have to warn you that many of the photos are particularly sexually explicit, and I'm sure that to some degree I am a voyeur for enjoying his work, but I like to convince myself that it's the artistic sensibilites that draw me to his work, and that's true definitely, but there is something insanely beautiful about all of it: the grunge, the BDSM.

Slava Mogutin