“All bodies, in Hang’s work, are equally seductive, and equally grotesque. Hang didn’t see gender, he saw desire in the human form,” writes Charlotte Jansen in Elephant’s Beyond Gender issue. As Pride London kicks off in the city today, we’re celebrating the late photographer who saw past the traditional barriers of sexuality to explore people simply as people, at play, and sexually alive. “I don’t want others having the impression that Chinese people are robots with no cocks or pussies,” the artist once said.
