Photographer Mark McKnight Turns Queer Bodies into Abstract Landscapes

The “body as a landscape” is an infinitely renewable cliché in art, one that draws its power from the collision between shifting human passions and nature’s steadfast indifference. At its best, it inspires work that collapses the distance between our interior sensory world and the environment around us, either imbuing everything with consciousness or recognizing our own as a particularly freaky extension of nature.In a recent discussion with Los Angeles–based photo