Abney Park Cemetery in London is famous for being the first arboretum in Europe to be combined with a cemetery. It’s a very gorgeous and dodgy place with fallen tombs outcropping everywhere, squirrels and foxes around, and a beautiful landscape during every season. It’s known for all the cruising going on around the tombstones.I fancy cruising outdoors and I go there sometimes since moving to London from Jerusalem two years ago. This time I got naked and took some photos. Some men actually approached me but I was so into my own trip that I didn’t even notice them watching me through the trees. My inspiration was something like ‘a living body among the deads’. I set the camera up on a gravestone, turned it on ‘automatic’…and these are the results.
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So beautiful.
I did a painting 10 years ago of a cross after it had been fucked. But it’s not a headstone, it’s a full-size timber cross, so the absent fucker would have to have struggled, hanging on the back of the cross-bar. There’s an over-turned crate that he would have used to hoist himself up and a little hole in the cross with spoof dribbling down the front and flowers growing at it’s base where the seed has accumulated over multiple sessions. These little details are easily missed and it just looks like a painting of a cross. But your 3rd photo gave me a pleasant shock of recognition.
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I didn’t know that such a place existed… I think it’s a bit macabre the photos there, but I guess that’s the intention. What the hell… You’re gorgeous, man! Awesome pics!
I used to cruise there years ago when I lived in Stoke Newington. I remember being fucked over some dead Victorian’s headstone while 20th Century gay guys watched in the sunshine. I guess we’ve come along way in the last 10 years or so, eh? :-)
a nice set! respect!
fuck, that’s hot!
Bravo!