Love is the same for everyone. The shots of the most beautiful gay couples ever
While many states still consider homosexuality a crime, punishable by jail or even the death penalty, Braden Summers, an American photographer, has decided to travel the world to show the normality of same-sex love. Wherever he has been on his journey, he has asked couples of men or women to photograph them in an affectionate moment, very similar to their daily life. "I decided to start this series when I lived in Europe", Braden declares "I was photographing couples when my boyfriend suggested that I also photograph gay couples, caught in their emotional normality, exchanging a kiss or a caress".
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Braden has been in Europe, but also in Asia and Africa, and has encountered many difficulties in those countries where "homosexuality is a taboo, if not a crime." Many people, however, were happy to be photographed, because they wanted to show to the world what it means to be homosexual in their culture ", continues the photographer. The photos, then, are romantic in the conventional sense, perhaps deliberately seeking a sentimentality that may seem naive or rhetorical, but which is the direct result of this normalization of gay couples through Braden's eye and lens. These photos are not documentary, they are made to dream, they look more like stock photos used by newspapers and online magazines than artist photos: they are simple because they want to make them accessible to all, at all levels of education and culture, the idea of romantic love between two women, or two men.
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In short, the project is much less naive than it seems: "We are constantly faced with sublime images that sell us clothes and perfumes", Summers declares "why not use that seductiveness of the image to make" homosexual love "acceptable? In short, with a more advertising than artistic language, Summers would like to convince those who consider it an abomination to accept gay love, showing its harmless, even naïve side.
Braden's project does not stop there: now he would like to continue his series of shots by visiting again Asia and then Mexico, also involving couples with transgender people.
Learn more: bradensummers.com
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