Forest McMullin has spent a significant portion of his photography career snapping photos of what he calls "fringe social groups." With his camera, he offers an intimate glance into the lives of everyone from incarcerated men in New York to members of religious supremacist groups in Pennsylvania, highlighting -- with a documentary lens -- some often unseen fragments of American culture. Such is the case in his series "Day & Night." In it, the Atlanta-based photographer captures portraits of men and women who live dual lives. During the day, they are mothers and businessmen in the South who lead "normal" lives -- or, at least, publicly acceptable lives that conform to constructed social norms. At night, however, McMullin's subjects are committed advocates of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism). They are swingers, dominatrixes, and dungeon masters who break through sexual taboos with pleasure.I think the photos are cool:
Would you want kinksters and fetishists to go mainstream? I mean let everyone know what you do in the bedroom or whatever is private to you.
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Lovely photos. :)
ReplyDeleteNice to see kinky people being allowed to just smile and be themselves in the mainstream.
Part of me wishes that I could tell everyone about trampling. I have 'introduced' so many vanilla women to the art of 'walking on my back'. I feel like some of them could really get into trampling if they let themselves go :-) I've met many tramplers that had no clue what trampling was until it was revealed to them how enjoyable an experience and freeing it could be. Then, a part of me enjoys the secrecy of it. :-)
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Walking on someone's back is okay with me. I don't know if I can walk on the face or the chest or tummy.
ReplyDeleteYeah, why divulge your secret? I think if it's a secret it becomes mysterious and exciting.