Snap! 2012, a photographic fundraiser for The AIDS Committee of Toronto is taking place on March 25, 6pm-10pm, at The National Ballet School of Canada, 400 Jarvis Street Toronto.
SNAP! is ACT’s annual photographic fundraiser featuring a live auction of art, a silent auction, and the Elevator Digital Photo Competition.
In previous years, the event has drawn over 700 guests, providing patrons with an opportunity to support ACT’s prorgams and services, increase their awareness of HIV/AIDS, and add to their art collections. The event provides a great opportunity for both major and emerging artists to showcase their work.
SNAP! is now entering its second decade, and has raised over 1.2 million dollars since its inception in support of the important programs and services at ACT.
You can purchase tickets for the event at www.snap-toronto.com
Bruce LaBruce is fabulous artist and I am so proud to be in his new book of photographs Bruce(x)ploitation. The photograph of me is from the Transformation series that we shot in 2005. You can see those images in the Portraiture section of this website (search under Objectifications.) Also featured in the book are Tony Ward, Slava Mogutin, Francois Sagat, and lots of naked and bloodsoaked pornstars, skin heads, hustlers, zombies and terrorists. It is a wonderful collection of art, sex and radical politics.
Bruce and I also collaborated this year on another series of images based on the Madonna/Whore paradox. One of these images will be shown in Madrid at La Fresh Gallery in Bruce’s exhibition called Obscenity. It opens February 16.
In May, three of the images will be published in Up and Coming, an erotic art journal published in Toronto (more details closer to the time.)
I can not show the new images online until they have shown in galleries and published, but I am very proud of them.
(To the left is one of the posters for the Madrid exhibition, but that is not me in the photograph.)
On a side note, I was recently privileged to see videos of the theatre pieces that Bruce has been directing in Berlin over the last four years and these works are mind-blowingly inspiring.
These images were made from the Sodom posters I did in 2011. Sodom is a monthly nightclub night where people are encouraged to dress up in themed masquerades.
The images without the night club’s promotional text become kitsch, computer generated, surrealistic fantasies which were also simultaneously very real.
concepts: Nina Arsenault and Mitchel Raphael
photography: Mitchel Raphael
digital manipulation: Joey Wargachuk
make-up: Myles Sexton