This Photographer Creates Erotic Art That Captures Masculinity Through a Queer Lens
Exploring the fluidity of masculinity through the eyes of a queer non-binary photographer, Jordan.
Jordan Blake Service (he/they) is a Los Angeles based photographer and designer. With over 10 years of mainstream fashion industry experience, Jordan has taken his design eye to translate seemingly classic aesthetics and put them through a queer lens. In 2019, Jordan founded Queer Artists Collab LA, focusing on LGBTQ community organizing in the art space.
Jordan used to be scared of masculinity. Who can blame them? As an out, proud queer kid, Jordan was bullied for not performing masculinity as society expected. It was his femininity that all but alienated him from men. He carried with him a fear of male-centric spaces like locker rooms and public restrooms. For this reason, Jordan, despite being passionate about photography, only shot women. They carried this fear into adulthood, but eventually, photography would be their saving grace.
OVERCOMING A FEAR OF MASCULINITY
When Jordan picked the camera back up, he pushed himself to shoot men. Through the camera lens, Jordan’s fear of masculinity began to fade. At the same time, they began to understand the shape of their own gender identity. Now navigating the world as a queer non-binary creative, Jordan’s photography has bloomed into something transformative. The fingerprint of his journey is on every photo he takes.
We’ve compiled a collection of photos by Jordan that explore masculinity in all of its complexities; photos that prove any one person can embody both masculinity and femininity.
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