Episode 1.9
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Isa and Dylan interview Black Masq.
Black Masq is a photographer b. in Oklahoma City. His work uses the nude to explore isolation and the search for authenticity as a queer person: “The ability to live and express authentically is often remote for queer people; we have to censor or suppress the expression of our identities to maintain social or familial networks or career opportunities. My work tries to reclaim a sense of agency through queer eroticism and self portraiture, and also in the methods used to create the images — where not only the subject but also the photographer become vulnerable in the service of creating an authentic image of the queer self. The portraits happen in a space where we are able to present ourselves in ways discouraged in our day to day — exposed, uninhibited — where we are most powerful.”
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About the Practice Practice podcast
Practice Practice is created by Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones. Season One of Practice Practice is funded by a THRIVE Grant from the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the Andy Warhol Foundation.