Hey! This is Mason Rose.

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Since discovering photography as a teenage metal musician, I found inspiration from James Bidgood, Cindy Sherman, Pierre et Gilles, and other photographers who embrace camp and vulgarity.

I love to incorporate textures - latex, leather, silk, skin - against backdrops of flower fields at golden hour, foggy mountains, and early 20th century architecture.

Through an ethereal and haunting aesthetic, I seek to nurture poise and esteem in place of the systemic shame routinely thrust upon queers, sex workers, trans people, and the kink community.

I take pride in connecting with my subjects on complex and vulnerable levels, creating dynamic images; soft and rough, vulnerable and strong, finding bliss within deep aching.