Disability and Sexuality

Disability and Sexuality is my first major body of work made after breaking my neck in 2009. Following months of rehabilitation, I realized that while medicine could teach me how to move and breathe in my new body, it offered almost nothing about pleasure, desire, or intimacy — especially for a gay man like me.

When I returned to school, I began photographing other disabled men as a way to understand how we experience our bodies, our relationships, and our erotic lives beyond clinical frameworks. These portraits are tender, curious, and unapologetic, centering disabled men as sexual, emotional, and desirous beings.

Rather than treating disability as loss, the series shows how desire is reshaped through injury, care, and embodiment. Disability and Sexuality became both an artistic project and a personal reclamation — a way to build connection, reimagine intimacy, and define what sexual life could look like on my own terms.

Black and white portrait of a shirtless young man with short hair, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
Black and white photo of a nude young man sitting on a stool with an electronic device in his ear, facing to the left, in a studio with a plain dark background.
Black and white portrait of a shirtless young man with tattoos on his chest and neck, looking directly at the camera, with a dark background.
Black and white photo of a young man with a serious expression, sitting in a motorized wheelchair, shirtless, with tattoos visible on his chest and neck, holding the armrest with one hand, against a plain dark backdrop.
Black and white portrait of a shirtless man with tattoos, short spiky hair, and a goatee, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.
A monochrome photograph of a shirtless man with tattoos, leaning on crutches, with one knee and leg visibly prosthetic, standing on a plain surface against a dark background.