I'm an old fart, 75 years old. Getting back on Flickr after a few years absence.

I love older men. ️🌈

J'aime les hommes plus âgés

Amo a los hombres mayores

Adoro gli uomini più anziani

Ich liebe ältere Männer

Jag älskar äldre män

我愛年長的男人

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

One looked up, grinning,

And said: "Comrade! Brother!"

-Stephen Crane

Definitely woke here. If you are not, don’t bother, just move on.

I've stolen the quotes below from another Flickr photographer. (and others). Please forgive me.

My photography may not reflect these quotes, but they are things in which I passionately believe.

“From the beginning of my photographic adventure, it started in 1985, I portrayed the nudity and sexuality of male subjects with generous builds and soft and sensual curves, who have always been my KINGS, those who involve my instinct, my head and my senses, with that whole of perceptions, thoughtsand emotions, with which I end up revealing myself, more than if I used a thousand words.

They are men with non-conforming bodies who destabilize the mainstream beauty dogma and who,more often than not, have a problematic relationship with their own physical image, often the protagonist of stories of bullying and derision.”

-Gianni Gianorso Rauso - Of Lovers and Kings - Photographic Fragments of Memories 2009/2022 -an exhibition of his work The exhibition is at Bar.lina Rome until 9 July 2023

It can be found online at NOISY RAIN MAGAZINE July/August 2023 issue.

Gianni is also here on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/gianorso/

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God.

This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty … what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse…

To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

-Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer

“The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion,

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

-Richard Avedon

"A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door,

the host said, 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic

camera.' He said nothing nothing until dinner was finished then: 'That was a

wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

-Sam Haskins-

"If a way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst."

--Rainer Marie Rilke

"We must keep alert, so that the sense of these words - "freedom", "dictatorship", "liberty" - will not be forgotten again. Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be easier, for us, if there appeared on the world scene someone saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the black shirts to parade again in the Italian squares." Life is not that simple. Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances - every day, in every part of the world."

--Umberto Eco

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

--V, in "V for Vendetta"

"Now they're planning the crime of the century, well what will it be?

Read all about their schemes and adventuring, it's well worth the fee.

So roll up and see, as they rape the universe,

How they've gone from bad to worse!

Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?

Rip off the masks and let's see. But that's not right - oh no, what's the story?

There's you and there's me, That can't be right"

--Supertramp