Queer French photographer Romain Berger on clichés of gay culture
With a background in film and theater, queer French photographer Romain Berger has long been fascinated by images, popular culture, stereotypes and gender issues.
His artistic work is quirky, cinematic, colorful and gently provocative. He openly claims the status of a “camp” artist, a concept which, among other things, refers to a form of self-deprecation allowing gay men to laugh at the difficulties of their condition in a homophobic society, all with artifice and exaggeration.
This is why he deliberately takes the clichés of gay culture and turns them on their head, highlighting the best and the worst of our world – loneliness, superficiality, overconsumption, violence, addiction, sexuality, politics, etc.
See more of his work at www.romainberger-photography.com
