July 2023

The photographer captures the norm-defying power of the LGBTQ+ experience in his stirring recent photobook Corporeal “In Rennt’s photography, the body becomes an abstraction of itself in its extremity. It’s without delay gendered and genderless, dominant and submissive, aroused and inert. We, the viewers, are held captive on this balancing act,” Maia Kenney writes in her foreword to Corporeal, Spyros Rennt’s latest, self-published book. On this publication, the Athens-born, Berlin-based photographer explores queer desire through moments of joy, intimacy and excess. Following the discharge of One other Excess (2018) and Last Give up (2020), Rennt’s third monograph takes his insider’s view of the LGBTQ+ community into recent territory. If his previous books testified to...