We can’t stop ogling Brooklyn-based photographer Travis Chantar’s latest photo series Flowers.
For the series, Chantar, who identifies as queer, adorns beautiful naked men with strategically placed flowers covering their modesty.
In his artist’s statement, he writes:
Flowers are a precious reminder of fleeting, young beauty. I love the idea of freezing the wild, perfect frailty of life in its prime. It would seem a waste if I failed to notice moments of bloom.
Scroll down for a sampling of Chantar’s work…
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Kangol
I like the idea, and some of these images are beautiful. But it’s become a kind of meme that lots of people–and Snapchat, right?–also are trying, with varying degrees of success. I’d love to see him photograph these men amidst flowers outside. Maybe in fields of dandelions, or bluebonnets, or tulips, or amid irises, sunflowers, etc.
QueerTruth
Sorry… this is an overdone theme. It should be organic.
This looks like a bunch of 5 years old glued petals on some dudes like they are Christmas trees.