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October 14, 2015 in Site News

This is my blog. It will be scintillating, riveting, scandalous, and (at times) thought-provoking. But it isn't yet. Yet. Stay tuned!

- Matty

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"If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up."
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Yusniel, looking out to sea, during a session last year in Fort Lauderdale, FL. I am in love with this man's acuity of artistic vision, his unapologetic comfort with his body, his focused energetic hope. It made every shot with him an exploration. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
I wouldn't describe Yusniel as particularly intense. I've met a lot of dancers who are, but Yusniel comes across instead as kind, as engaged and focused. It's a hard balance to strike as a performer: to be a consummate artist yet personable and approachable. It's unsurprising to me that this man (who is also amazingly talented) is now performing on "So You Think You Can Dance" (@danceonfox) to the large and diverse audience his artistry deserves. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
A little ways back, I had the impossible delight of working with Yusniel Rodriguez--model (@yusnielrod) and contemporary dancer--down in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Yusniel's fresh perspective, enthusiasm, strength-in-movement and keen attentiveness to the lines and limits of his body made for a hugely dynamic series. He was quite the sight, leaping from boulders in wild perfect form or curling mimetically into the shapes of rocks. We had particular fun in the water, with open poses that speak like graceful airs. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
For this session, I wanted to see what happened if I pulled Bear's hair around his eyes and face. In five sessions together, that hair (while luxurious) never seemed to end up this way--always it was tucked behind Bear's ears or pulled back. This time, I wanted it messy. Something enters the eyes this way, which is a little more bereft, a little more abandon-ridden. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
With one light source, the sun dallying through the trees outside my apartment, it's nice to see the shadows play across Bear's body here. It makes those @versace_official undies all the more striking. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
Bear's sense of his own body is phenomenal: this new session from Summer 2017 marks the sixth time we've worked together, and that sense has always served him--growing in notice and deliberateness as Bear's comfort with his own sensuality has enlarged. Form, freedom, even a kind of explosive thematic nakedness is ever-present in his work: using the body to get to some heightened state. He's great to work with. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
There's a portrait photographer I like who says that the only ingredients in photography are light and time. I couldn't agree more. This is what interests me. I want to observe the effect of light and time on people, specifically on the kind of men that I usually desire. I have my secondary interests, too, of course: queer identity, masculinity, gender expression, vulnerability, softness. And I think mostly these get expressed in subject-choice and technique, but especially in mood. Mood requires change to work. Unlike commercial or fashion work--where the focus is on the product and the clothes--intimate portraiture places the model inside a scene, with its singular yet ever-shifting mood, subject to changing light and time. In my best work, I let go a little and let the camera do the seeing; in my best work, the day is a sum of fated interlocking parts. The less agency the better. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
The hardest thing to find in a client-model is somebody whose vision corresponds with your own. Rare is the client who simply gives over and says, "Do what you do best." I haven't had that experience very many times. Quinn here is one of the only ones. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
In July 2015, on an inlet of the Columbia River I'd scouted the week before, Quinn and I settled into the rhythm of a beachside session. The little stretch we'd picked was deserted, filled with trash and rocks and waterlogged woodscraps from the area's decrepit moorings and pilings. Quinn was a little too luxurious for the setting, a little too glam--the swimshorts and hat at odds with our surrounds. Yet as I've thought on these photos over the years, these beach images are the ones I come back to: contrast, swatches of bright color, unblemished pink skin against the drab grey-green Northwest sky. • • • #mkulischphoto #mattkulisch #photographer #photographersofinstagram #contemporary #contemporaryart #queerartist #gay #gayartist #instagay #intimate #men #model #nude #portrait #lookbook #intimateportraits
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