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'Robert Andy Coombs: No Content Warning'

From June 14, 2024 through September 14, 2024
  • ONE Archives at USC Libraries, 909 West Adams Blvd., University Park
Free
A male model with short, bleach-blond hair  faces away from the camera. Black leather straps hold together the harness he's wearing as he squeezes the end of a drainage bag hung over his head and dripping down his shoulder and back.
(Robert Andy Coombs via ONE Archives at the USC Libraries)

A small but exciting photography exhibit opened recently at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, coinciding with Pride Month. Contemporary queer and disabled photographer Robert Andy Coombs shares nine erotic photographs called No Content Warning, that “unapologetically present the vision of artist and often subject.” The show asks the viewer to confront the artist’s experience directly. Coombs shared on his social media earlier this year, “I get it, I am not digestible to the general public and neither is my artwork.” All the more reason to be intrigued to check it out (although it may not be appropriate for kids). It’s the first time several of these works have been publicly exhibited.