Gay cowboy pic

Rural America, as an ideal, is by and large a patriarchal, Christian, white domain — still hostile to anything that is not that. Nature and rural life — which is not inherently exclusive, but open — becomes caught up in that fixated identity. Please could you share with us your first encounter with the IGRA and the impression it made on you?

The “Mt Rushmore-atization” of Gay Cowboys – Bob Devin Jones on Blake Little’s Photography

At the next rodeo, I stayed on the steer and completed my ride. From the beginning, I brought my camera to all the rodeos, but as a rodeo competitor, I now had inside access. I could shoot close to the action-down on the arena floor and behind the chutes. I began photographing seriously as I got more involved.

Van Sant ropes gay cowboy pic

Black and White photography has the uncanny and beguiling ability to evoke profound human emotions joy, menace, hurt, harm or danger… loss. Developed at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, this collection of 41 black and white images explores the diverse and complex nature of individual and community identity in Western rural culture.