A photographer whose work documents and celebrates the homoerotic is among the winners of this year’s Governor General Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Evergon, 77, said he’d hoped to receive one of the Artistic Achievement Awards eventually, but is “gobsmacked” that it actually happened. Over the course of his career, which is now in its fifth decade, the artist born Albert Jay Lunt said he’s seen attitudes toward his work shift alongside the perception of the LGBTQ community.
“There’s pieces that were scandal 40 and 50 years ago, and there seems to be no scandal with those pieces at the moment,” he said in
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