At The Same Time
At some point in the late aughts, I noticed that the work I was making resembled work being made by two other couples who were posting work on Flickr. One of the couples lived in Toronto, ON, and one the other in Manchester, UK. None of us had ever met in person before. I was interested in how we were collectively expressing intimacy in male same-sex relationships and in how we’d come to share a visual language even though none of us had met.
I reached out to the other couples and proposed we exhibit our collective work in our three cities, Edmonton, Toronto and Manchester, which we did. At the end of the project, once two of the couples had split up, we published a book of the work. The book collected the work of Steven Beckly and Dylan MacNeil (Toronto, Canada), Ted Kerr (Brooklyn, NY) and Zachary Ayotte (Edmonton, AB), and Colin Quinn and Oisín Share (Manchester, UK).