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I've been doing sexual photography in San Francisco since 1977. My photos have encompassed a wide range of styles: stark and grainy nude landscapes; impressionistic, gritty, cinema verité images of S/M sex scenes; sharply focused, elegantly composed, studio sexual portraits involving S/M, erotic piercings, gender play and what I call non-standard penetration. The latest work comprises soft and romantic images of explicit sex that challenge the concept of pornography. I've self-published high quality fine art printed books of my work: "Sexual Magic: the S/M Photographs" in 1986, "Sexual Portraits: Photographs of Radical Sexuality" in 1990, and "Sexual Art: Photographs That Test the Limits" in 1994. These books have sold more than 10,000 copies. "Lust & Romance: Rated X Fine Art Photographs", was published by Last Gasp of San Francisco in October, 1998. I published my latest, Vanilla Sex: Explicit Fine Art Photographs, in 2007 as a free downloadable PDF document and in 2009 as a high quality paperback. "Lust & Romance", "Sexual Art", "Sexual Portraits" and "Sexual Magic" are now also available as free downloadable PDFs. I've had numerous solo and group shows and my photographs have been showcased in many magazines. Check out these reviews of me and my work, available online: I photograph real people, not models, and am always looking for individuals, couples or groups of all genders, races, ages and persuasions who want to share their sexual energy from the vanilla-ish to the outrageous with my camera. |
My formal CV:
Honors | ||
2014 | Society of Janus Hall of Fame, San Francisco | |
Acker Award, "For Achievement In The Avant Garde" | 2012 | Master of Erotic Art, Seattle Erotic Art Festival |
Permanent Collections | ||
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana | ||
The Cornell University Human Sexuality Collection, Ithaca, New York | ||
The Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco | ||
The Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago | ||
The Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas | ||
The Leslie-Lohman Foundation, New York City | ||
The Bancroft Museum, Berkeley | ||
The International Center for Photography (ICP), New York City | ||
Published Books | ||
2022 | Nudes 1977-1981 (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
2019 | Chinatown Mysteries (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
2018 | Jump (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
2017 | Slow Dance (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
2016 | Sexual Magic: the S/M Photographs (Shaynew Press, SF) - online PDF | |
2013 | Sexual Portraits: Photographs of Radical Sexuality (Shaynew Press, SF) - online PDF | |
2010 | Sexual Art: Photographs That Test the Limits (Shaynew Press, SF) - online PDF | |
2009 | Lust & Romance: Rated X Fine Art Photographs (Shaynew Press, SF) - online PDF | |
Vanilla Sex: Explicit Fine Art Photographs (Shaynew Press, SF) - print version | ||
2007 | Vanilla Sex: Explicit Fine Art Photographs (Shaynew Press, SF) - online PDF | |
1998 | Lust & Romance: Rated X Fine Art Photographs (Last Gasp of SF) | |
Sexual Art: Photographs That Test the Limits (Alixe, Paris) | ||
1994 | Sexual Art: Photographs That Test the Limits (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
1990 | Sexual Portraits: Photographs of Radical Sexuality (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
1986 | Sexual Magic: the S/M Photographs (Shaynew Press, SF) | |
Awards | ||
2016 | Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | |
2015 | Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | |
2014 | Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | |
2013 | Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | |
2012 | Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | |
Workshop Presenter, Society of Janus, San Francisco | ||
2011 | Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | |
2010 | Workshop Presenter, Seattle Erotic Art Festival | |
Awardee, Folsom Street Fair Artists’ Booth, San Francisco | ||
Workshop Presenter, Society of Janus, San Francisco | ||
2009 | Workshop Presenter, Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco | |
2008 | Workshop Presenter, Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco | |
2007 | Workshop Presenter, Seattle Erotic Art Festival | |
2005 | Lecturer, Wardell Pomeroy Basic Lecture Series, Institute For Advanced | |
Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco | ||
2000 | Nominee, Erotic Oscar, London | |
1997 | Venus Award, Good Vibrations, San Francisco | One- and two- person shows |
2019 | Crimes Against Nature, SF Citadel, San Francisco | |
2014 | Slow Dance, Salana Gallery, San Francisco | |
2012 | Dirty Secrets (vintage prints), Leslie-Lohman Basement Gallery, NYC | |
Dirty Secrets (vintage prints), The Kymara Gallery, Biddeford, ME | ||
2011 | Contact Sheet Sexual Portraits, Center for Sex & Culture, SF | |
2009 | Leather Men, Mr. S Leather, San Francisco | |
2008 | Vanilla Sex - 2008, Good Vibrations (Polk Street), San Francisco | |
2007 | San Francisco Open Studios, Shaynew Studio, San Francisco | |
2005 | Vanilla Sex - 2005, Center For Sex & Culture, San Francisco | |
Sexual Magic, The Citadel, San Francisco | ||
2002 | 25 Years of Sexual Art, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | |
Lust & Romance, art@large, New York | ||
2001 | San Francisco Open Studios, Shaynew Studio, San Francisco | |
Lust & Romance, Stormy Leather, San Francisco | ||
2000 | Lust & Romance, Passion Flower, Piedmont, CA | |
1999 | Lust & Romance, Good Vibrations, San Francisco | |
1998 | Lust & Romance, 848 Community Space, San Francisco | |
1996 | San Francisco Open Studios, Shaynew Studio, San Francisco | |
1995 | Sexual Art, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | |
Sexual Art, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | ||
1994 | Good Vibrations, San Francisco | |
1991 | Stormy Leather, San Francisco | |
1989 | Visible Spectrum, San Francisco | |
1988 | Sexual Portraits, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | |
1987 | Two jewish boys photograph sex South-of-Market, Mark I. Chester Gallery, SF | |
1985 | Himovitz/Salomon Gallery, Sacramento | |
1984 | Inside/Outside: Two views of Radical Sexuality, Mark I. Chester Gallery, SF | |
Nathan Hart Gallery, San Francisco | ||
1983 | Exposé, San Francisco | |
University of Denver, Denver | ||
1982 | Simon Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey | |
Silver Image Gallery, Laramie, Wyoming | ||
Mind's Eye Gallery, Pocatello, Idaho | ||
Selected Group Shows | ||
2022 | Trans-Aware, Scott Wiener Gallery, San Francisco | |
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | ||
2021 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
Cleveland Photo Fest: Deja Nude | ||
2020 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
2019 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
2018 | Fanfare-LA, Photo Independent, Los Angeles | |
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | ||
2017 | Kinsey Institute: Untold Stories, World Erotic Art Museum, Miami Beach | |
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | ||
On The Edge 7, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco | ||
2016 | For Love Or Money, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN | |
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | ||
On The Edge 6, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco | ||
2015 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
On The Edge 5, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco | ||
2014 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
On The Edge 4, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco | ||
2013 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
Puss 'n Boots, Amelia Hyde Gallery, San Francisco | ||
XXX, Leslie-Lohman Basement Gallery, New York | ||
Dirty Show Fourteen, Detroit, invited artist | ||
On The Edge 3, Gallery 4N5, San Francisco | ||
2012 | GalleriErotica, Masquerotica, San Francisco | |
Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Master of Erotic Art | ||
The Dick Show, Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco | ||
On The Edge 2, Gallery 4N5, San Francisco | ||
2011 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
Shibari Relief Benefit, Wicked Grounds, San Francisco | ||
On The Edge, Artists Alley Gallery, San Francisco | ||
We Out Here, Big Umbrella Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Fear No Art, Mark I. Chester Studio, San Francisco | ||
2010 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
Last Gasp 40th Anniversary Show, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco | ||
True Art, The Warehouse Gallery, Oakland, CA | ||
The Dirty Show, Detroit, invited artist | ||
Shape of Us, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN | ||
Nature & Nurture, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN | ||
2009 | Seattle Erotic Art Festival, invited artist | |
Cupido 25th Anniversary Show, Fotografiens Hus, Oslo (poster image) | ||
The Dirty Show, Detroit, invited artist | ||
Juried Erotic Art Show, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN | ||
La Petite Mort....a collection of Erotica, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ | ||
ARTundressed, Erotic Signature tour, Miami and other cities | ||
2008 | Waking Dream, Ultimate Eye Foundation, Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA | |
VoyeuriS/M, Stormy Leather, San Francisco | ||
Juried Erotic Art Show, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN | ||
2007 | SEXICON, Living Room Gallery, Berkeley, CA | |
Expressive Bodies, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN | ||
Seattle Erotic Art Festival | ||
2006 | Juried Erotic Art Show, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN | |
The Erotic Show, City Art Gallery, San Francisco | ||
The Dirty Show, Detroit | ||
Seattle Erotic Art Festival | ||
2005 | The Erotic Show, City Art Gallery, San Francisco | |
The Dirty Show, Tangent Gallery, Detroit | ||
Seattle Erotic Art Festival | ||
2004 | Six On Sex, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | |
The Dirty Show, Tangent Gallery, Detroit | ||
Seattle Erotic Art Festival | ||
2003 | Assorted Flavors, Sacred Profanities Gallery, Berkeley, CA | |
Seattle Erotic Art Festival | ||
Photo Sex, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
SF Open Studios, Six on Sex, Mark I. Chester Studio, SF | ||
2002 | Group Sex II, art@large, NYC | |
Erotic Art Fair, Leslie Lohman Center, NYC | ||
2001 | Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography, Greely Square Gallery, NYC | |
1999 | Edge: 20 years of BD/SM Photography, Sacred Body Art Gallery, NYC | |
1998 | L A Nude VI, Photo Impact, Hollywood | |
Celebration of Diversity, Raven Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Uniforms, David Aden Gallery, Venice, CA | ||
Queer and Kinky Danger, GLHS, San Francisco | ||
Next Show, Raven Gallery, San Francisco | ||
1997 | Sex and Subversion, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | |
1996 | Gender Affects, Indiana Univ. Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington | |
Kinky Sex, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | ||
Erotic Art Fair, Tom of Finland, Los Angeles | ||
Vanilla Sex, Differences, San Francisco | ||
1995 | Sex Sells, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco | |
The VulvArt Show, 848 Community Space, San Francisco | ||
Sex For Sale, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | ||
SEXART 4, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Art of the Corset, 111 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco | ||
1994 | Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery, Canberra, Australia | |
The Erotica Show, Photographic Image Gallery, Portland | ||
Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York(Libido Magazine) | ||
The Scott OHara Show, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
1993 | The Dick Show, 848 Community Space, San Francisco | |
The XXX-Rated Show, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | ||
SEXART 3, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Crossing the Line: Gender Transgressions, Aru Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York | ||
Art, Sex & Theater, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Erotic Photo Show, Dressing For Pleasure, Upper Montclair, NJ | ||
1992 | Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York | |
SEXART 2, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
The Fear of Human Survival, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | ||
Un-Chain My Heart, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego | ||
1991 | Woman as Subject, S. F. State University Art Gallery | |
SEXART, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Five on the Edge, Shaynew Gallery, San Francisco | ||
Art and the Forbidden, S. F. State University Art Gallery | ||
1990 | Liquid Eyeliner, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery | |
The Nude: Classsic and Erotic, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle | ||
Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York | ||
1989 | Erotic by Nature, Dancing Man Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA | |
Eroticism: West Coast Expression, Gallery 601, San Francisco | ||
Group ... Sex Photo Show, Mark I. Chester Gallery, San Francisco | ||
1987 | Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York | |
1983 | Nathan Hart Gallery, San Francisco | |
Simon Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey | ||
1982 | Rated X, Neikrug Gallery, New York | |
The Finished Print, Farmington, CT | ||
SoHo Gallery, New York | ||
Books by Other Persons That Include My Photographs | ||
2011 | Femalia, Last Gasp of San Francisco | |
2009 | Erotic Signature, World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today - Volume III | |
2003 | Photo Sex, Down There Press, San Francisco (cover) | |
2001 | Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica, Carroll and Graf, New York | |
2000 | Lencyclopédie du Sadomasochisme, La Musardine, Paris | |
Still Doing It, Down There Press, San Francisco (cover) | ||
1999 | Orgies, Ipso Facto Publishers, Paris | |
1998 | Uniforms, FotoFactory Press, Santa Monica, CA | |
1997 | I Am My Lover, Down There Press, San Francisco | |
Return of the Tribal, Park Street Press, Rochester, VT | ||
Fiction Intl #30 (Pain), San Diego State Universary Press (cover) | ||
1996 | Becoming-Woman, Camilla Griggers, Univ of Minnesota Press | |
1995 | Sex and Love, Takarajima Books, Tokyo | |
1994 | Sex Wars: Photography on the Frontlines, Society for Photographic Education | |
1993 | Femalia, Down There Press, San Francisco | |
1990 | Erotic by Nature, Shakti Press, Santa Cruz, CA |
Selected Magazine Portfolios | ||||||
Bear | EIDOS | PFIQ | Spectator | |||
Black Sheets | Libido | Powerplay | Taboo | |||
Cupido | On Our Backs | Prometheus | Taste of Latex | |||
Drummer | Paramour | SandMutopia Guardian | Yellow Silk |