#queer close-up

Nothing is known about the source of this image, but its atmosphere is immediate. The extreme close-up leaves almost no context, only skin, breath and the charged space between two faces. It could be a whisper, a kiss about to happen, or the dizzy second when closeness makes the rest of the room disappear. The softness of the grain gives it a dreamlike quality, while the ambiguity keeps it intimate rather than literal. A small, quiet image with a very strong sapphic pull. Photographer and source unknown