It looks like fans of BDSM in everyday life. Photo

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Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото Fans of this lifestyle is sometimes hard to find.

Atlanta photographer forest McMullin in his photo project “Day and night” (Day and Night) explores sexual desire and its relationship to the human personality, taking individuals and couples in their everyday life and behind closed doors of their bedrooms.

On the left we see the standard image of middle class Americans of both sexes, enjoying the routine, and the right suddenly find out that the same people reincarnated in other roles, following the nocturnal fantasies and turned into a dominatrix, Amateur bondage, transvestites, Swingers and furry.

These slightly shocking diptychs propose we look at two faces of the same people: easily accessible public image and vulnerable sex appeal. In stolen moments of intimacy where the characters show almost tangible confidence gap between what is considered normal and abnormal, is the white line that separates the daytime and night time pictures. The author of the photo project as if asking the viewer to leave preconceptions for the sake of better understanding a variety of erotic preferences.

“In 2008, I moved from Rochester, new York, to Atlanta in Georgia. Remember, as a very worried about how I will adapt to the religious, socially and racially conservative American South, coming from the very liberal North. Soon after, I read an article in a local weekly newspaper about a female professional over 30 years visiting Swingers clubs with her husband. There was a picture of her, and I was surprised how normal she looked,” – says the photographer.

“What?! Swingers clubs in Atlanta? I was shocked. I had no idea that such places can exist in the South. I began to study the question and found that in the city there were several. Then I learned that some have “dungeons” where visitors can be in front of everyone tied or chained and athleston for their own enjoyment and the enjoyment of observers. I was again in shock. Since most of my career I shot a marginal social group, I soon started thinking about how to take pictures of men and women who go to these clubs”.

“I contacted the owner and managing the largest underground club in Atlanta and she invited me to meet her in the club. I showed some of my past work, and she let me come in working hours of the club, promising to meet up with some regulars. I met with a professional dominatrix by the name of Dia, and it openly embraced my ideas. After our portrait photo shoots, she began to introduce me to other members of this subculture – how it all started”.

“This level of candor is definitely not for everyone. Some were ready to withdraw on the condition that I permit them to be in the mask, and I refused. Now and then it seems to me that contact with the camera is critical in my business. These men and women oppose themselves to the viewer as if to say: “I feel completely comfortable in my body, in life and with what I choose. And you should feel the same””

“I don’t think someone is more authentic than others, but they don’t seem fully integrated as one complex personality. Some pass through an obvious transformation when wearing a certain type of clothes, behave a certain way or to participate in what is called a “scene.” The change in them almost physically visible. And others like never change.”

“In the case of shoot first when she put on her wolf suit, there have been significant underlying changes. She became more confident and even moved differently. By the way, it is important to note that these pictures are about identity, not just about BDSM. There are furries, transvestites and drag Queen, and these people are not interested in BDSM”.

“I think people in these photos almost all felt some form of liberation, when he participated in the “Day and night”. Many of them compare it with the confession of homosexuality and are very pleased that opened. They think that they no more choose their sexual behavior than homosexuals, and that they do not need to hide.”

Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото
Так выглядят любители БДСМ в повседневной жизни. Фото

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