Category: gay photography

Colette: “Where the Sea Was Already a Little Paler Than the Sky”

Photographer Unknown, (Human Significance)

‘Let them die,’ he said again. ‘It’s less dangerous. I can swear on my word of honor that I never gave a present or made a loan or an exchange of anything except … this …’

He waved both hands in a complicated gesture which fleetingly indicated his chest, his mouth, his genitals, his thighs. Thanks no doubt to my fatigue, I was reminded of an animal standing on its hind legs and unwinding the invisible. Then he resumed his strictly human significance, opened the door, and easily mingled with the night outside, where the sea was already a little paler than the sky.”

—Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932

Slice of Light

Photographer Unknown, (Slice of Light)

“There is scarcely anything when a man is in difficulties that he is more disposed to look upon with abhorrence than a rightabout retrograde movement—a systematic going over of the already trodden ground: and especially if he has a love of adventure, such a course appears indescribably repulsive, so long as there remains the least hope to be derived from braving untried difficulties.”
― Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

We Are Freaks

Photographer Unknown, (We Are Freaks Tattoo)

“There’s a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”

― Diane Arbus

Scott Teitler, “Casey Levens”

Scott Teitler, “Casey Levens”, Photo Shoot for JON Magazine, 2015

Born and raised in New York, Scott Teitler now calls South Florida his home. His interest in photography began when his father gave him an old Nikon SLR camera, and his quirky group of friends became his subjects. Scott further developed his talents at the University of Florida where he studied advertising in the College of Journalism, while also pursuing a minor in photography from the College of Fine Arts.

Within a short space of time Teitler’s work was featured in local publications and national and international work soon followed. His passion is for taking clean, simple photographs that show the subject in a comfortable and unguarded way.

Featured in a previous spread from JON Magazine back in 2015, Scott Teitler’s photo shoot ‘Rabbit In A Hat’ with model Casey Levens is inspired by a magician and his rabbit.