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Braden Summers traveled to six different countries to prove that no matter where you are, love is equal.
New-york based photographer Braden Summers is highly experienced in capturing romance with a single click.
But as a gay man, he was tired of the LGBT community being misrepresented in media imagery – or worse absent completely. He decided to take matters into his own hands.
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Summers traveled all over the world to create dramatized romantic scenes featuring only gay couples.
Summers discussed the All Love Is Equal photography series with BuzzFeed and shared a few of the spectacular photographs:
I shot my first gay-centric romantic photo in London with two men, an umbrella, and an iconic bridge.
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It made me think a lot about iconic romance in general and how all of the images that came to mind were of straight couples - real or fabricated.
Gay imagery tends to be hyper-sexual, or banal images of everyday couples, or worse yet depictions of our victimization.
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I wanted to create a whole series using my London image as a benchmark.
So, I raised over $23K set out with a producer friend of mine to Paris, India, Lebanon, South Africa, Brazil, and the US to shoot the project over a 6 week period.
The images are not documentations of reality, but illustrations using models and real-life couples to help my viewers dream about having that type of romance.
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The work is meant to speak to a large audience, it should be reminiscent of the highly-produced romance images that we are fed on a daily basis.
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Summers hopes to one day have his photography in a touring exhibition, so he can continue to spread a little bit of romance all over the globe.
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