Photographs by John Ryan Brubaker @jrbrubaker - Tumblr Blog

Rain Piece no. 30 Van Dyke print on Arches Platine (at Thomas, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKZvm30F9et/?igshid=tn2lhjzeujfh

FOUND ABSTRACTIONS, 2019

In December 2018 Tumblr became the latest major social media platform to introduce a zero tolerance policy towards 'adult content'. Other major networks – Facebook, Instagram, etc. – have long removed content considered 'adult' despite it not respresenting sexual contact or pornographic material. This has included female (but not male) nipples, breastfeeding and same-sex couples kissing. The decision by Tumblr to remove these images and accompanying threads has led to the loss of long-established resources for communities that have used this platform to exchange imagery and stories about safe, consensual, sex-positive practices and lifestyles. It has also re-inforced the unbalanced treatment of physical bodies based on gender stereotypes and assumptions.

As digital media becomes the core platform for social communication our cultural expression is being controlled by unaccountable media conglomerates. They are dictating what we are able to see and discuss, shaping our concepts of what is considered dirty, shameful or unacceptable in society.

The works in this series are enlarged crops of images found on a variety of digital platforms. The original photographs include nude human bodies, kissing consensual adults and breast-feeding mothers, but no sexual activity of any kind.

https://jrbrubaker.com/projects/foundabstractions/

#censorship #tumblr

Every Stop on the 97 Tram Line. 2017. Come see this and other work in my atelier as part of open studios at @greylightprojects. Today through Sunday, 10h-18h. Rue Brialmont 11, at Botanique, St. Josse. (at Brussels, Belgium)

Every Path is Viable, Lander County, NV as German billboard at @duesseldorfphoto. (at Düsseldorf, Germany)

Friends... I will be in Charleston on Saturday to give a talk for the closing reception of my current show at #taylorbooks #annexgallery. @walkyourcamera will be joining me for a conversation about the work and an open Q&A. March 31 @ 6pm. Join us if you can. (at Taylor Books)

#annexgallery #taylorbooks

La Barrière (plus detail). (at Saint-Gilles, Belgium)

Slow Mining. (at Thomas, West Virginia)

Brussels. #bxl (at Brussels, Belgium)

#bxl

I’ll be showing a billboard-sized work from ‘Every Path is Viable’ at @duesseldorfphoto as part of the Photo Panels series with 2 min ago. . — February 13-23. — Am Steinberg 16, 40225 Düsseldorf. . And it’s a pleasure to find one’s name next to John Baldessari... (at Am Steinberg)