This is a series of virtual galleries of dark erotic fine art black and white photographs, reflecting my life and explorations in San Francisco's gay radical sex underground from 1979 until the year 2000.I am in the process of updating and changing the galleries, so while some galleries have small thumbnails only, others link to larger images. Keep in mind that these galleries are in a state of transition, and under reconstruction. Please be patient.
You'll notice that this work stops in 2000. After more than 20 years of exploration, I had to put down the film camera to try and make the rent from taking digital pix. And now digital has literally put an end to fine art black and white film work and gelatin silver photographs. In only a few years, the entire market has been turned upside down. Digital is no longer the wave of the future, but the tsunami of the present.
If you want to look at the digital work I am now doing...................
But those 20+ years of work still exists. I lived the life, walked the walk and talked the talk. The photographs are a kind of diary and no one can take that from me. The work now changes from taking black and white photographs to preserving them because of the history that they tell. I am always looking for angels to support this work and men who believe in sexual portraiture who want to become part of this on-going personal and artistic exploration, even if that is in another medium.
Mark I. Chester