{"id":1872245,"date":"2026-04-08T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1872245"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:44:00","slug":"slava-mogutins-photos-explore-desire-vulnerability-sex-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1872245","title":{"rendered":"Slava Mogutin\u2019s photos explore desire, vulnerability, sex and power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-1418-945\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443085.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/70057\/1\/slava-mogutin-interview-analog-human-studies-photography-bob-mizer-gallery\" data-article-id=\"70057\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.52\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slava Mogutin\" class=\"img\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443085.jpg\" width=\"1440\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">\u00a9 Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-04-08T14:44:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"08 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"8\">8,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lightbox\">Lightbox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lightbox\">Lightbox<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Slava Mogutin\u2019s photos explore desire, vulnerability, sex <span class=\"nowrap\">and power<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>Ahead of a major new retrospective, Analog Human Studies: 25 Years of Photography, we spoke with the acclaimed queer photographer about sex, power, and <span class=\"nowrap\">dissident art<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-04-08T14:44:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"08 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"8\">8,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-04-08T14:44:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"08 April 2026\"><span class=\"month\">April<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"8\">8,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/JamesGreig\">James Greig<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-15-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Slava Mogutin, Analog Human Studies: 25 Years <span class=\"nowrap\">of Photography<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/0\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_anton_roof_cock_moscow_2000_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1425-950\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443081.jpg\" width=\"1425\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/1\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_ari_piss_alley_LA_2022_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-173-954-636\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443082.jpg\" width=\"954\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/2\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_g_crouching_jeffersonville_2022_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-202-954-636\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443083.jpg\" width=\"954\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/3\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_g_mirror_harlem_2022_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-79-1015-676\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443084.jpg\" width=\"1015\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/4\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slava Mogutin\" class=\"img\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1418-945\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443085.jpg\" width=\"1418\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/5\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_joey_sniffing_carlos_san_francisco_\" class=\"img\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1418-945\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443086.jpg\" width=\"1418\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 15 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in art for art\u2019s sake. I don\u2019t believe in <\/span><em><span>safe <\/span><\/em><span>art. I don\u2019t believe in art that\u2019s apolitical, decorative or elitist,\u201d says photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/slava-mogutin\">Slava Mogutin<\/a>, the subject of a new retrospective exhibition &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bobmizer.org\/calendar\/slavamogutin?hsLang=en\"><em><span>Analog Human Studies <\/span><\/em><\/a><span>&#8211; spanning 25 years of his work and currently on view at the Bob Mizer Museum in San Francisco. \u201cWe\u2019re facing a worldwide epidemic of hate, bigotry and violence. It\u2019s not the time for <\/span><em><span>safe<\/span><\/em><span> art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shot primarily on analogue film, Mogutin\u2019s portraits move between black-and-white and rich saturation, often featuring props (boxing gloves, gas masks and antlers, for instance) and explicit nudity. His images are often strikingly beautiful, yet there is also a sense of immediacy and imperfection. Over the course of his career, he has published more than two dozen books, exhibited in cities around the world, and collaborated with fashion houses including Helmet Lang, VETEMENTS and Commes des Gar\u00e7ons. He has also worked with some of the most significant queer artists and writers of the last century, including Allen Ginsberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/bruce-la-bruce\">Bruce LaBruce<\/a>, Edmund White, and Dennis Cooper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>San Francisco is a fitting location for his first major retrospective. Born and raised in Soviet Russia, Mogutin first visited the city as a teenager in the early nineties, spending two months there as part of a student exchange programme. \u201cIt was the tail end of the Aids epidemic, the newspapers were filled with obituaries, and the Castro felt like a collective grave,\u201d he says. While he had been excited to visit this \u201cgay mecca\u201d, the experience had a chilling effect on him as a young gay man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the visit was not without its pleasures. He spent long hours at the City Lights Bookstore, the birthplace of the Beat Generation, and at Different Light, a bookshop in Castro where he discovered gay books and works of art that were then banned in Russia, among them George Platt Lynes, Herbert List, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/robbert-mapplethorpe\">Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a>, Tom of Finland and Bob Mizer. \u201cIt was a real artistic and sexual awakening\u201d, he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"694f1367-bf0f-46b7-83e1-b42600c8599b\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/955\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443088.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.66\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443088.jpg\" width=\"955\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Years later, he returned to San Francisco as a refugee, after being exiled from Russia for his writing and queer activism. He met and collaborated with photographers like Arthur Tress, Tom Bianchi, Marc Geller and Kelly Grider, and it was at this point that he took some of his earlier classic photos, some of which are now on display in the exhibition. Mogutin\u2019s first paid jobs as a photographer were shooting for porn magazines, including <\/span><em><span>Playgirl<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span><em><span>Honcho<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span><em><span>Inches<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span><em><span>Mandate<\/span><\/em><span> and <\/span><em><span>Torso.<\/span><\/em><span> \u201cMy editors always complained there weren\u2019t enough hard-ons \u2013 the industry\u2019s gold standard,\u201d he says. Never interested in straightforward porn or nudity, he was drawn instead to roleplay, fetish, bondage and BDSM, anything that was more psychological and ambiguous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of his images, he says, were too hardcore for print porn at the time. Yet a few years later, when he showed outtakes from these same shoots at his first solo exhibition in New York, he found that they were celebrated. Christopher Makos described him as \u201cthe male Nan Goldin\u201d, which he took as a high compliment. His works have an undeniably erotic quality, but he doesn\u2019t see that eroticism as something separate. \u201cDesire, vulnerability, sex, power \u2013 they\u2019re all intertwined,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"2aaacc55-6c5c-48b5-b13a-b42600c85eec\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/960\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443095.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443095.jpg\" width=\"960\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>While Mogutin has been documenting the queer community for over 25 years, mostly shooting his own friends, lovers and collaborators, he rejects the idea of \u201ccommunity\u201d as something stable or unified. \u201cWhat interests me is disaffection and discontent,\u201d he says. \u201cMy work isn\u2019t about representation, it\u2019s about proximity: fragments of lived experience; bodies that carry desire, danger and damage at the same time.\u201d He\u2019s not seeking to capture clean images or a fixed identity, but a series of encounters, which are \u201cintimate, unstable, sometimes tender, sometimes brutal\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later in his career, Mogutin began to cast his eye backwards and seek inspiration in mid-20th century, pre-Stonewall queer art and literature, which he describes as \u201cmore experimental, more dangerous, more political and emotionally charged\u201d.\u00a0 He sees a parallel between his own experiences as a dissident in Russia and the way that figures like Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs and James Baldwin fought the system. \u201cThese people didn\u2019t create because it was trendy or beneficial; they risked their lives and put their freedom on the line to express themselves in the most honest and radical way, with total disregard for the homophobic laws and morals,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"fbff8fa3-e1a5-4caa-91d8-b42600c85b0f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/953\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443090.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.66\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443090.jpg\" width=\"953\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>These figures created work as a time when queer life was coded, criminalised and forced into the shadows, which \u201cproduced a different kind of eroticism, one that\u2019s rooted in risk, secrecy and invention.\u201d While he\u2019s not nostalgic for that repression, he\u2019s interested in what that pressure created \u2013 something akin to \u201ca poetics of survival,\u201d he suggests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of the artists who have inspired him the most have been writers and filmmakers. \u201cRimbaud burned through language like it was a body. Genet turned crime and desire into mythology. Burroughs dismantled the narrative entirely,\u201d he says. He is also drawn towards filmmakers like Pasolini and Fassbinder, who \u201cunderstood the violence inside love better than anyone\u201d, John Waters, who \u201cglamorised gore and kink and ridiculed anything heteronormative\u201d, and Bruce LaBruce, who \u201cpushed queer desire back into confrontation \u2013 where it belongs.\u201d All of these artists, he says, refused respectability in different ways. \u201cThey worked from excess, from contradiction, from the body. That\u2019s the only place I trust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bobmizer.org\/calendar\/slavamogutin?hsLang=en\">ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 Years of Photography by Slava Mogutin<\/a> is on view at the Bob Mizer Museum from April 2 to June 13, 2026. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-15-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Slava Mogutin, Analog Human Studies: 25 Years <span class=\"nowrap\">of Photography<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/0\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_anton_roof_cock_moscow_2000_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1425-950\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443081.jpg\" width=\"1425\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/1\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_ari_piss_alley_LA_2022_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-173-954-636\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443082.jpg\" width=\"954\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/2\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_g_crouching_jeffersonville_2022_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-202-954-636\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443083.jpg\" width=\"954\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/3\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_g_mirror_harlem_2022_WEB\" class=\"img\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-79-1015-676\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443084.jpg\" width=\"1015\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/4\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slava Mogutin\" class=\"img\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1418-945\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443085.jpg\" width=\"1418\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36924\/5\/slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies-25-years-of-photography\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#169;slava_mogutin_joey_sniffing_carlos_san_francisco_\" class=\"img\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-1418-945\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443086.jpg\" width=\"1418\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 15 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in art for art\u2019s sake. I don\u2019t believe in <\/span><em><span>safe <\/span><\/em><span>art. I don\u2019t believe in art that\u2019s apolitical, decorative or elitist,\u201d says photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/slava-mogutin\">Slava Mogutin<\/a>, the subject of a new retrospective exhibition &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bobmizer.org\/calendar\/slavamogutin?hsLang=en\"><em><span>Analog Human Studies <\/span><\/em><\/a><span>&#8211; spanning 25 years of his work and currently on view at the Bob Mizer Museum in San Francisco. \u201cWe\u2019re facing a worldwide epidemic of hate, bigotry and violence. It\u2019s not the time for <\/span><em><span>safe<\/span><\/em><span> art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shot primarily on analogue film, Mogutin\u2019s portraits move between black-and-white and rich saturation, often featuring props (boxing gloves, gas masks and antlers, for instance) and explicit nudity. His images are often strikingly beautiful, yet there is also a sense of immediacy and imperfection. Over the course of his career, he has published more than two dozen books, exhibited in cities around the world, and collaborated with fashion houses including Helmet Lang, VETEMENTS and Commes des Gar\u00e7ons. He has also worked with some of the most significant queer artists and writers of the last century, including Allen Ginsberg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/bruce-la-bruce\">Bruce LaBruce<\/a>, Edmund White, and Dennis Cooper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>San Francisco is a fitting location for his first major retrospective. Born and raised in Soviet Russia, Mogutin first visited the city as a teenager in the early nineties, spending two months there as part of a student exchange programme. \u201cIt was the tail end of the Aids epidemic, the newspapers were filled with obituaries, and the Castro felt like a collective grave,\u201d he says. While he had been excited to visit this \u201cgay mecca\u201d, the experience had a chilling effect on him as a young gay man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the visit was not without its pleasures. He spent long hours at the City Lights Bookstore, the birthplace of the Beat Generation, and at Different Light, a bookshop in Castro where he discovered gay books and works of art that were then banned in Russia, among them George Platt Lynes, Herbert List, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/robbert-mapplethorpe\">Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a>, Tom of Finland and Bob Mizer. \u201cIt was a real artistic and sexual awakening\u201d, he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"694f1367-bf0f-46b7-83e1-b42600c8599b\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/955\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443088.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.66\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443088.jpg\" width=\"955\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Years later, he returned to San Francisco as a refugee, after being exiled from Russia for his writing and queer activism. He met and collaborated with photographers like Arthur Tress, Tom Bianchi, Marc Geller and Kelly Grider, and it was at this point that he took some of his earlier classic photos, some of which are now on display in the exhibition. Mogutin\u2019s first paid jobs as a photographer were shooting for porn magazines, including <\/span><em><span>Playgirl<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span><em><span>Honcho<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span><em><span>Inches<\/span><\/em><span>, <\/span><em><span>Mandate<\/span><\/em><span> and <\/span><em><span>Torso.<\/span><\/em><span> \u201cMy editors always complained there weren\u2019t enough hard-ons \u2013 the industry\u2019s gold standard,\u201d he says. Never interested in straightforward porn or nudity, he was drawn instead to roleplay, fetish, bondage and BDSM, anything that was more psychological and ambiguous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of his images, he says, were too hardcore for print porn at the time. Yet a few years later, when he showed outtakes from these same shoots at his first solo exhibition in New York, he found that they were celebrated. Christopher Makos described him as \u201cthe male Nan Goldin\u201d, which he took as a high compliment. His works have an undeniably erotic quality, but he doesn\u2019t see that eroticism as something separate. \u201cDesire, vulnerability, sex, power \u2013 they\u2019re all intertwined,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"2aaacc55-6c5c-48b5-b13a-b42600c85eec\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/960\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443095.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443095.jpg\" width=\"960\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>While Mogutin has been documenting the queer community for over 25 years, mostly shooting his own friends, lovers and collaborators, he rejects the idea of \u201ccommunity\u201d as something stable or unified. \u201cWhat interests me is disaffection and discontent,\u201d he says. \u201cMy work isn\u2019t about representation, it\u2019s about proximity: fragments of lived experience; bodies that carry desire, danger and damage at the same time.\u201d He\u2019s not seeking to capture clean images or a fixed identity, but a series of encounters, which are \u201cintimate, unstable, sometimes tender, sometimes brutal\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later in his career, Mogutin began to cast his eye backwards and seek inspiration in mid-20th century, pre-Stonewall queer art and literature, which he describes as \u201cmore experimental, more dangerous, more political and emotionally charged\u201d.\u00a0 He sees a parallel between his own experiences as a dissident in Russia and the way that figures like Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs and James Baldwin fought the system. \u201cThese people didn\u2019t create because it was trendy or beneficial; they risked their lives and put their freedom on the line to express themselves in the most honest and radical way, with total disregard for the homophobic laws and morals,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"fbff8fa3-e1a5-4caa-91d8-b42600c85b0f\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/953\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443090.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.66\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY\" class=\"img\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/3\/1443090.jpg\" width=\"953\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Slava Mogutin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>These figures created work as a time when queer life was coded, criminalised and forced into the shadows, which \u201cproduced a different kind of eroticism, one that\u2019s rooted in risk, secrecy and invention.\u201d While he\u2019s not nostalgic for that repression, he\u2019s interested in what that pressure created \u2013 something akin to \u201ca poetics of survival,\u201d he suggests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of the artists who have inspired him the most have been writers and filmmakers. \u201cRimbaud burned through language like it was a body. Genet turned crime and desire into mythology. Burroughs dismantled the narrative entirely,\u201d he says. He is also drawn towards filmmakers like Pasolini and Fassbinder, who \u201cunderstood the violence inside love better than anyone\u201d, John Waters, who \u201cglamorised gore and kink and ridiculed anything heteronormative\u201d, and Bruce LaBruce, who \u201cpushed queer desire back into confrontation \u2013 where it belongs.\u201d All of these artists, he says, refused respectability in different ways. \u201cThey worked from excess, from contradiction, from the body. That\u2019s the only place I trust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bobmizer.org\/calendar\/slavamogutin?hsLang=en\">ANALOG HUMAN STUDIES: 25 Years of Photography by Slava Mogutin<\/a> is on view at the Bob Mizer Museum from April 2 to June 13, 2026. 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