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“I had just met this guy who disclosed to me that he was a male escort, and I just had a million questions,” says photographer Jeff Ball. “So we did a photo shoot.” But the experience felt too far removed, too inauthentic for what Ball wanted to accomplish: “I just really wanted to understand.”
So for eight months, Ball crisscrossed the country, escorting, networking and gathering material for a book that he eventually abandoned. “There was a moment when I felt that the book was everything that was wrong with my life,” he admits. “So I purged it. I laid it down.”
Now Ball has combined the journals, photographs and video footage that survived that experience with more recent material and a multimedia installation piece that re-creates his bedroom interviews; the result is Dis-Closure, which opened last night at The Other Side Arts, 1644 Platte Street, and continues until May 22.
“It isn’t so much about the sex — though, obviously, you can’t get away from that — but is really focused on the emotional and psychological effects of doing that type of work,” Ball says.
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Get more information about Dis-Closure at www.theothersidearts.org or by calling 303-561-3000.
May 4-22
