Drasko Bogdanovic
Drasko Bogdanovic (born 1977 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-Canadian artist, portraitist and photographer of homoeroticism. He emigrated to Canada in 1996 where he took up digital photography. Bogdanovic was a classically trained musician and self taught painter before taking up photography. An early fascination with Hollywood magazines and black & white photography influenced Bogdanovic to juxtapose classical posture with natural light in his male nude photography. Today his landscape and architecture photography capture cities’ geometry, immutable personalities and intrinsic emotions; his photography has appeared in domestic newspapers and magazines and has been featured in local and national advertising campaigns.
With male nudity being one of the last taboos of our society, men don’t get a chance to show their beauty and be appreciated for it. It is uncomfortable to fit masculinity and beauty together. My photography depicts men without focusing on sexual orientation.
This kind of intimate portrait photography draws viewer into the game of a voyeur and an exhibitionist. Filled with erotic charge and sexual tension, these images are guaranteed to arouse. With a more natural relationship to nudity, we might also be freed up to find each other a lot more fascinating.
