CHECK Magazin - Gesundheitsmagazin für Männer No.9
Alkoholmissbrauch und dessen Folgen sind die zweithäufigste Ursache für Krankenhausbehandlungen in Deutschland. Mehr als 150 internistische, neurologische und psychiatrische Diagnosen werden mit Alkoholmissbrauch assoziiert. Doch eine Gruppe fällt beim Thema Alkoholkonsum besonders auf: Queere Menschen, darunter insbesondere schwule und bisexuelle Männer.
Alkoholmissbrauch und dessen Folgen sind die zweithäufigste Ursache für Krankenhausbehandlungen in Deutschland. Mehr als 150 internistische, neurologische und psychiatrische Diagnosen werden mit Alkoholmissbrauch assoziiert. Doch eine Gruppe fällt beim Thema Alkoholkonsum besonders auf: Queere Menschen, darunter insbesondere schwule und bisexuelle Männer.
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ENGLISH<br />
Body Awareness<br />
TRAPPED IN<br />
A DREAM<br />
Sound familiar to you? You see a photo<br />
of yourself and suddenly you‘re surprised<br />
that you look quite good. But then you<br />
look in the mirror and don’t find this<br />
attractive person again. The problem of<br />
impaired perception of one‘s body and<br />
appearance is widespread, especially<br />
among gay men. One who often<br />
witnesses this is photographer Kiko<br />
Dionisio.<br />
Hello Kiko, you photograph many people from<br />
our community and have noticed that there<br />
is often a discrepancy between how your<br />
models perceive themselves and how you<br />
perceive them.<br />
I first noticed it when I was photographing a<br />
friend of mine, a very beautiful man who was<br />
exercising every day. I‘ve always wondered<br />
why he does all this and he told me he was<br />
always overweight as a kid and was bullied<br />
accordingly as ‘the little fat boy’. He still saw<br />
that boy in the mirror and not the well-built<br />
man he was now. I found that very surprising<br />
because he was the last person I thought<br />
would have problems with his appearance.<br />
How often does it happen to you that your<br />
models don‘t feel comfortable in their skins<br />
at first?<br />
Well, I usually had to persuade them to do<br />
it at all. I usually hear: no, I‘m not ready yet,<br />
give me another six months, I don‘t look good<br />
enough yet. Even though they already looked<br />
like Adonis. And then when we start taking<br />
pictures, it always takes about an hour before<br />
they can let go.<br />
“99 % of the time the models are<br />
amazed at how good they look.”<br />
I have to say that I work a lot with shadows<br />
and therefore stage a lot. So I often say: please<br />
stand more to the left or right, or please tilt<br />
your head a little now. The models therefore<br />
do not necessarily have the feeling that they<br />
know what is happening. In order to convey a<br />
feeling of security, I show the pictures directly<br />
afterwards. 99 % of the time the models are<br />
totally amazed at how good they look.<br />
Why is that?<br />
For some it may be that they are chasing an<br />
ideal that they want to live up to. Anything<br />
that doesn‘t match that isn‘t considered<br />
pretty. Be it an idea of yourself that you don‘t<br />
want to look like you did back then, or the role<br />
model of a great singer or actor that you want<br />
to be like. Behind this is usually the idea of <br />
wanting to look perfect.<br />
FOTO: KIKO DIONISIO<br />
22 <strong>CHECK</strong> BERLIN #9