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Experience a world of the unspoken homoerotic. Male sex appeal, unvocalized desires, kink, perversion and all that is considered naughty, and not right, is Drasko Bogdanovic.
Raised in Sarajevo during the Bosnian conflict, Drasko's view of real world strife strongly influences his photographic view. His subjects are raw, a little filthy - the message is to the point. Inspired by film noir and German sexual proclivities, Drasko is credited with his ability to expose the raw, often-missed angles of sexuality.
Whether still or motion photography, the message is simple - there are no rules, sexuality has no bounds, all is right with the perverse.
This website contains material of adult nature.
If you are offended by nudity and graphic depictions of sexuality, please go somewhere else.
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bio/cvselected solo and group exhibitions:
2012
Submission (solo exhibition)
14th-27th May 2012
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto
2011
Canadian Cameras At Work
September 2011
Contraste Agence d'Art/Alliance Francais,
Beijing China
Raw Me
June 18th - July 9th 2011
Bezpala Brown Gallery, Toronto
Naked man staring at you (solo exhibition)
April 5th-24th 2011
Hang Man Gallery, Toronto
Snap!2011 Silent auction and competition (best portrait)
March 27th 2011
National Ballet School Of Canada,
Toronto
2010
CRUSH (solo exhibition)
November 27th 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada Fundraiser,
"Humanitarianism Through Art"
November 6th 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa
ArtPorn Lounge Show (Part of Hustlaball 2010)
22nd October 2010
KitKat Club, Berlin
Queer Salon Belgrade
3rd - 10th October 2010
Cultural Centre of Belgrade,
Belgrade, Serbia
INSTANT
June 17th 2010
Robert Goff Gallery,
New York
Snap! 2010 Photography Competition and Silent Auction
March 21, 2010
National Ballet School (400 Jarvis Street)
Toronto
Persuasion Of Men (Solo Exhibition) CONTACT PHOTO FESTIVAL
May 7th-31st 2010
GRASP Erotica Bar
Toronto
One Night Stand with Sarah-Jane Schorlemer and Drasko Bogdanovic
January 22nd 2010
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
2009
New Photographs (solo exhibition)
November 7th 2009
Flashbox Galerie
Munich, Germany
MAGICAL DREAMWORLD
Curated by Missy Marston-Shmelzer
Group Exhibit
November 6 - 29, 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
Humanitarianism through Art
A Fundraiser for: Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada
September 25 - 27, 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery,
Ottawa
One Night Stand (Solo Exhibition)
September 11 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery Ottawa
Canadian Cameras At Work: A Video Art and Photography Exhibition
August 27 2009—September 3 2009
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
Beijing, China
Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show
May 29 - July 31, 2009
Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery, U.S.A
THIS:HAS:BEEN (Solo Exhibition) CONTACT PHOTO FESTIVAL
May 1st - 31st 2009
Blueprint, Toronto
SNAP! 09, Photography Competition and Silent Auction
March 21st 2009
Toronto
2008
Nuit Blanche/Art in the Fall,
October 1st 2008
401 Richmond, Toronto
first Queer Sarajevo Festival,
September 2008,
Academy Of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia
IN FLAGRANTI (Solo Exhibition)
August 8th - September 30th 2008
Come As You Are, Toronto
The Artful Nude,
July 11 - August 9, 2008
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Surfaces, (award of merit)
April 29 – Friday, May 23, 2008
John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
Camera Obscura Serbica,
Praxis Gallery, Toronto
Erotic Blender,
February 11th - March 31st, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
SNAP! 08, Photography Competition and Silent Auction
March 22nd 2008
Toronto
Third Annual Miniature Photography Exhibition,
Praxis Gallery, Toronto
Drasko Bogdanovic (born 1977 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-Canadian artist, portraitist and photographer of homoeroticism. He emigrated to Canada in 1996 where he took up digital photography. Bogdanovic was a classically trained musician and self taught painter before taking up photography. An early fascination with Hollywood magazines and black & white photography influenced Bogdanovic to juxtapose classical posture with natural light in his male nude photography. Today his landscape and architecture photography capture cities’ geometry, immutable personalities and intrinsic emotions; his photography has appeared in domestic newspapers and magazines and has been featured in local and national advertising campaigns.
Introspectre, one of Bogdanovic's most prominent works, was given the Award of Merit at The Ontario Society of Artist's Annual Exhibition in May 2008. In 2010 he published his first book of erotic photography "Persuasion Of Men" featuring introduction by Brad Fraser.
Drasko Bogdanovic is a regular columnist at fab, Toronto's gay scene magazine.
submissionSubmission
collection of new erotic photographs
Buddies at Bad Times Theatre, Toronto
May 14th-27th 2012
opening night reception and party May 15th at 7pm
music by Rasmus Behncke
persuasion of men book
136 page, hard-cover book with more than 120 colour and black & white, full and double page photographs featuring "The Whole Man" introduction by notoriously outspoken Canadian writer Brad Fraser.
Persuasion of Men examines society’s view of male nudity and the uncomfortable fit between masculinity and beauty. Bogdanovic‘s intimate portraits depict men without focusing on sexual orientation. The images draw the viewer into a game of voyeur and exhibitionist filled with erotic charge and sexual tension, guaranteed to arouse. Presenting a natural attitude to nudity, Bogdanovic strives to illustrate curiosity and freedom towards the male form.
available in hard cover with dust jacket for $72.95
softcover $56.95 and
ebook download for Apple iBooks $4.99
to purchase click on a preview
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La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland St Ottawa,
ON K1N 7H9
613 860 1555
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