Sinful Sunday: Flicker

I spent this afternoon wandering around an exhibition at the Barbican Centre with Exposing40. It was called Modern Couples, and showcased all kinds of intimate photography and other artwork made by unconventional, creative couples over the last 150 years. I particularly enjoyed the Man Ray/Lee Miller pieces, and was really happy to be introduced to Claude Cahun/Marcel Moore’s gender-fluid portraits from the early 20th century.

We’re unlikely to spend another lazy Sunday in an art gallery till spring 2019, at which point the Royal Academy will have opened its much heralded exhibition on the Renaissance Nude. Designed to strip out the contemporary male gaze, and to reflect a largely hidden historical gender equality/balance in nude portraiture, the collection they’ve brought together promises much – I hope it delivers.

For now though, I feel inspired to up my own erotic photography game. I’ve always loved the idea of finding a gallery willing to host a Sinful Sunday exhibition, and have idly wondered on many occasions which of my photos (as artist, subject or both) I’d submit for inclusion. Especially after today though, I kind of hope my best work is still to come – and that wherever life takes me over the next few years, there will always be lovely, creative, brilliant people nearby to join me in my photgraphic adventures.

Whether or not we end up in a museum.

Photo credit: Exposing40