Instagram has been my main platform to date and is where many of my models and collaborators have come from. ‘Early models or subjects were friends or friends of friends, but now projects come from further afield including brands, publications, agencies and other organizations.
This lead to exploring more editorial and creative shots which has evolved into my current style,’ he says. ‘I started working with Triggerfish, as well as our University swim team.
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His underwater series began when he started shooting members of Ontario’s LGBT Triggerfish water polo team. ‘I’ve always had an affinity for water, so I’m in my happy place when shooting in it.’ I have personally always found solace in the water, and I try to share that emotion with my audience through the images that I create.
‘My underwater work poses physical, emotional and conceptual challenges both in the creation and the interpretation. Murnaghan says he only began experimenting with underwater photography in December 2016, although he had been doing surf photography for several years prior to this. ‘Through my photography, I explore feelings, emotions and memories that we all feel from our childhood that are either unprocessed or suppressed and try to emote them through my subjects in an unexpected yet familiar setting.’ ‘I’ve always had an affinity for water’ ‘I started photography to explore a different side of myself and discovered an aesthetic eye and artistic voice that I never knew existed.
His full-time job is as a surgeon in a hospital. He tells GSN that he does photography as a hobby. Lucas Murnaghan, 41, lives his partner of the past ten years in Toronto. Perhaps that will change now that gender roles are getting tossed in the garbage.A gay photographer based in Canada is picking up a huge following on social media because of his incredible underwater images. It’s an amazing collection, but while the men’s casual intimacy is stunning, Brett says that it’d be a mistake to assume that they’re all queer some of them may be, but he says it’s far more likely that they’re just sharing the physical closeness that men used to express before homosexuality got labeled as a sinful mental disorder and sexual identity later in the 20th century.
He also notes the rarity of physical contact in modern photos: an interviewer of contemporary portrait photographers said that no photographer had ever had two men come in to have their photos taken together. Rather than viewing them as all queer, McKay suggests that we ponder the nature of their relationships: could they be brothers? Friends? Relatives? Co-workers? Military mates? It’s an amazing collection, but while the men’s casual intimacy is stunning, Brett says that it’d be a mistake to assume that they’re all queer some of them may be, but he says it’s far more likely that they’re just sharing the physical closeness that men used to express before homosexuality got labeled as a “sinful” mental disorder and sexual identity later in the 20th century.ĭuring the 19th century, he says, men regularly formed deep and emotional friendships and bonds that weren’t necessarily sexual even though they used endearing language (like calling one another “my lovely boy”) and physical closeness: some guys regularly held hands, embraced one another from behind, sat on each other’s laps and shared a physical closeness that seems jarring to modern audiences.