Intimate Encounters: Disability and Sexuality features the photography of Belinda Mason-Lovering, which highlights the fact that disability does not prevent or preclude sexuality. Selected images from this internationally critically acclaimed exhibition will be on display at the Museum of Sex.

The Shutter Room is proud to announce the opening of an important exhibition featuring the photography of Belinda Mason-Lovering, which highlights the fact that disability does not prevent or preclude sexuality. Selected images from this internationally critically acclaimed exhibition will be on display at The Shutter Room from March 1st to March 24th.

Described as a landmark photographic essay, this exhibition challenges the hidden and often not- so- hidden myth in our society that only the most glamorous, attractive and successful among us lead active, healthy and imaginative sex lives. The subjects featured in each striking photograph on view possess physical disabilities and through the experience of being photographed, share their most intimate thoughts and feelings.

Mason-Lovering traveled around Australia over two years collecting images that reflect the personal emotional journey of people with disabilities by choosing to photograph the intangible emotion.
"The participants gave me such precious stories and trusted me to translate these thoughts and feelings carefully and tenderly onto images", explained Mason-Lovering. They exposed not only their bodies but also their souls by expressing their most intimate of emotions and thoughts. Our own reaction to the images exposes us to ourselves and our ability to listen when someone lays their naked soul in our path.