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    Braden Summers’s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Jacob Anderson-Minshall

    Braden Summers’s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Braden Summers moved to France to photograph a modern vision of romance. While living in Paris, his husband (then boyfriend) suggested he shoot a romantic gay scene. “I took it as a welcome challenge,” Summers recalls. And the resulting image of two men holding hands in London (pictured below) inspired him to create “an entire body of work. I worked on a series of photos that would illustrate idealized romance for same-sex couples from a wide variety of cultures and countries. The message I was trying to get across is that same-sex romance is beautiful! It should be accepted and celebrated, not just tolerated, around the world.”

    That project became Summers’ All Love is Equal series, which indeed captures the beauty of queer love, but more than that, the photographs also challenge the perception many have in other countries that LGBTQ+ couples exist exclusively in Western nations.

    “I remember hearing about heads of state in African countries proclaiming that gays do not exist in their own country and thinking how absurd that was,” Summers says. “Representation holds so much power. If you show people that diversity exists, in time they will fear it less.”

    He says that his favorite image still “might just be the first of the series, the men in London walking in the rain on the bridge. To me, there was always something about it that felt simultaneously classic and revolutionary.”

    Summers says this project, like much of his photography, “is meant to inspire people to see beauty in diversity; to expand their own definition of what might be considered beautiful.”

    This piece initially ran in Out Traveler print issue #25 read the digital version of the issue here. All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    London, England

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    John Hall and Gleeson Paulino, the first of the All Love Is Equal series, show that same-sex romance is beautiful

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    London, England

    Dapper gay couple walk through London rain by Braden Summers

    John Hall and Gleeson Paulino

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Bali, Indonesia

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Mutiara Fitriani and Inka, inspired by the fairytale beauty of Indonesia

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Bali, Indonesia

    two women together on pond in Bali Indonesia by Braden Summers

    Mutiara Fitriani and Inka

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Paris, France

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Joanna and Azalea, a couple living their truth, enjoy a moment in the City of Lights

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Paris, France

    Lesbian couple of color share a moment in Paris by Braden Summers

    Joanna and Azalea

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Oahu, Hawaii

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Ho Vinh Khoa and Rhonee Rojas stroll hand-in-hand through the botanical gardens in Koko Head

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Oahu, Hawaii

    A gay couple walk through tall cactuses on Hawaii by Braden Summers

    Ho Vinh Khoa and Rhonee Rojas

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Luisa Chagwala and Ebby Weyime at Lion Park

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    a South African lesbian couple by Braden Summers

    Luisa Chagwala and Ebby Weyime

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Tshepo Sithole Modisane and Thoba Sithole Modisane, a couple who had recently wed in a traditional Zulu celebration, the first same-sex wedding of its kind

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    A gay South African Zulu couple by Braden Summers

    Tshepo Sithole Modisane and Thoba Sithole Modisane

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Mumbai, India

    Braden Summers\u2019s Photos Show Love Is Love Around the Globe

    Divya Puri and Divya Tandle in the streets of Mumbai

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    Mumbai, India

    Two women wed in India by Braden Summers

    Divya Puri and Divya Tandle

    All photos by Braden Summers bradensummers.com

    This piece initially ran in Out Traveler print issue #25 read the digital version of the issue here.

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