Boys in nature

Dennis in the woods. 2008

Latex in the garden 🖤

Carah Faye Charnow of the Shiny Toy Guns. 2016 in downtown LA. Styled by Karis Wilde and Tamar Wilde ✨🌟✨

The Passengers starring WIFE (effects edit), 2014 No post production kids….all in camera effects Here’s a link to the original short film we made for MOCA vimeo.com/247997593?fl...

Fall is coming ya’ll

Sexy and psychedelic 😍 Go give Artemesia some birthday love 💞

New Mexico with Leahy. 2014 The first shot is White Sands, and the second is the Very Large Array where part of the movie Contact was filmed.

Admin reveal 👼🏻 Sassy since birth 💅🏻

Class Actress in the Hollywood Hills DePalma meets Lynch meets Giorgio Moroder She’s in the studio right now recording new music ya’ll! Look for another collab soon 💋

2013 collab with Inner Course

Album artwork for baby sstr Blew Velvet and their AMAZING two singles A sacrifice and A mirror. Two songs you should have on rotation 💞

Waterfalling in love

High glam and Hollywood lighting✨✨

An actual goddess in the spring fed bath at the meadow. A mix of studio lights and sunlight filtering in through the forest ✨

Some band photos I did for Totally Radd back in 2005 or 2006. Based on the legendary fantasy artists Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo

Sometimes my garden looks THIS good ✨🌸🍑🌸✨

I don’t know how, but I’ve managed to be photographed by so many contemporary photography legends! This portrait from Alec Soth was taken in my greenhouse in the winter. He’s a damn master of his craft and I was seriously trying not to fan girl out! Shot on an 8”x10” viewfinder.

It’s giving ancestral body 2025, 25”x40” archival photograph In honor of all my 2spirit Choctaw ancestors 💗💖💗

From 2008….i had just figured out this bent mirror photo technique using a sheet of 4’x8’ mirrored acrylic. Starring three brilliant dancers from LA in the gay woods of Tennessee.

Mr. Big Ideas 2008 self portrait on Polaroid 🤘🏼

Diamond waves in the blue, blue light 2025, Sixteen 15”x20” archival photos hung in a grid Sixteen photographs of my HIV meds shot on blue velvet. Annual cost of my current two meds—$68,000

ACID HOUSE 2025, 26”x40” archival photograph Part of my new solo show that’s up in Nashville now through June 28th. DARK BIG BANG is on view at Tinney Contemporary 💅🏻

Just a woodland sprite, doing fairy things 😊 Including gardening and working on the land all day, harvesting and eating wild foods, and love making passionately every chance I get. I love spring! 📸: @benjyrussell.bsky.social

The forest and the womb 2025, Four 20”x32” photographs I’ve got a show opening on Saturday in Nashville! We started installing today…lordy it’s going to be so good ya’ll

In the early 00’s, I did all of the photos for the band Shiny Toy Guns…before and after they got big. They were always so down for whatever wild idea I had as a lil baby photographer still figuring out how a camera worked. A set made out of hubcaps or a sunrise photo in a cow pond with balloons 😂

When an artist tells you they spent all day doing administrative work

From Hazing the Muse. A collab with the brilliant artist Rya Kleinpeter. 2013

Gay confession: I own SEVERAL smoke machines. For emergencies ✨🌈✨

slow enchantment 📸 @benjyrussell.bsky.social

The commodification of dreams 2025, 30”x40” Some new work that’s going in my upcoming show DARK BIG BANG. It opens May 17th at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville 💅🏻 ✨🌸✨

I’ve been getting to hang with this absolute babe while I’ve been in LA🔥 This shoot is from 2016 when somehow we had access to the most amazing wardrobe and one of the only green screen shoots I’ve ever done. Trans futurism is a vibe ya’ll!

Ready to pounce 😊 Booking for May and June all over the southeast. You know what to do. 📸 @benjyrussell.bsky.social

Kaleidoscopic garden fantasy

I have a solo exhibition of new work opening in a month in Nashville! DARK BIG BANG at Tinney Contemporary May 17th-June 28 with an opening reception on May 17th from 5-8pm Pictured: Flower medicine 2025, a quadryptich of four 24”x26” separate photographs of my HIV medication on black velvet.

Film noir 🖤

I like to bask in luxury, indulge my senses, and peruse immeasurable pleasure. How about you? 📷: @benjyrussell.bsky.social

The garden at night is one of my favorite places to photograph 🖤

I’m back in LA for a couple of weeks! I’ve been stuck in the woods for the last year with no travel. I’m sooo ready a city moment. I shot this photo of Carah Faye from the Shiny Toy Guns somewhere in west LA back in 2015 ✨

poetic license

Heavenly✨🙏🏼✨

Superstar choreographer and bff Ryan Heffington photographed at my place in Tennessee. Professional dancers are truly some of the most amazing folks to get to collaborate with 🏆

Rya and I in Cox City, Oklahoma 2007 One of a thousand legendary nights

Night gardening

I’m so ready for all of the spring flowers! Tennessee is just magical this time of year ✨🌼✨

In full bloom

FYI my spring is going VERY well so far🥵 💚🌼💚

Kimi at sunset in Los Angeles✨

Rya, Luke and I at the Ida waterfall. This was during Experimental Summer Camp 2010. For Experimental Summer Camp we’d host a dozen-ish artists in TN for a week or two and everyone would collaborate, run through the woods naked, and make tons of art. It was pure magic and the best kind of chaos ❤️

Karis during Beltane Jewelry by House of Malakai