Photographer: Jonas Van der Haegen
The series ‘Love, fuck & pray’, was made in 2018 – 2019 in collaboration with the LGBTQIAP+ center in Tokyo and Osaka (Japan). This work functions as a visual research about queer sexuality and the male body in Tokyo that bounces back on a culture that is known for sexualising mostly the female body.
The portraits dance between masculinity and femininity. They reflect -together with texts of Yukio Mishima- on the rich history of BDSM in Japan and give it a contemporary face. The work functions as a conceptual documentary with in a personal approach, which reflects the artists Queer gaze.
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-1-1.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-2.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-22.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-4.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-20.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-21.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-5.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-6.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-7.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-8.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-9.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-10.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-11.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-3.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-12.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-13.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-14.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-15.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-16.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-17.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-18.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-19.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-24.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-25.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-26.jpg)
![](https://pornceptual.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LOVE-FUCK-PRAY-27.jpg)
Leave a Reply