"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
— Jean Genet
Before the HBO series True Blood, was the Charles Gatewood book True Blood….and unlike the HBO series True Blood, these photographs chronicle edge-players of a controversial fetish subculture: one in which, true to its name, is the blood.
(Source: beautynursedondarkness)
“The first cut is the worst…”
Glitchy close-up of Dharma, from
Charles Gatewood’s book and short film, True Blood
“An open wound that won’t heal due to the lack of closure.”
Hemorrhage, by Derek Hess
Still of Danielle Willis, from Charles Gatewood’s short film “Blood Bath”
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
