Natasha Poly, ph: David Benjamin Sherry: by Adam Baran for Butt Magazine : Picture yourself walking through some beautiful natural landscape like Monument Valley in Utah or the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. You’re enjoying the vistas, thinking about the intensity of the color on display, when suddenly you spy a figure coming towards you – a nude, skinny man with a shaved head, his body painted, camouflaged in that same color you were pondering a moment ago. He looks like he could be a monster, some kind of demon in purple or aqua. For a moment you’re frightened, and then you see his tripod and camera set up and realize he’s just some crazy 28-year-old fag photographer from New York City named David Benjamin Sherry. This is the kind of work David’s best known for – combination landscape and self-portraiture, with a strong attention to the kind of wonderful color combinations you find in those celebrity portraits that Andy Warhol painted in the 1970s that everybody hates....
