What would you say if you will see a naked man jumping in front of his camera? Everyone is entitled to have an opinion about that but we must admit thatStiriGay.ro team loved the idea. And we will be lucky to see that live, here, in Romania as the man that invented that thing will visit our country very soon.
Morgan Tepsic is a 20 years old talented American photographer, born and living in Oklahoma City. Although all his pictures are great and he promotes photography as art, managing a magazine called Tepsic Magazine, Morgan is more known as "The Jumper Man", the guy that strips and jumps naked in front of his camera.
You would say an exhibitionist but the resulting pictures are totally crazy but innovative, having all the requirements of an artwork.
Now, his passion for traveling will be combined with his passion for being naked. Monday, 24th of May he'll start a trip around the world, visiting countries like Japan, Korea, Laos, Taiwan, Thailand, China and Romania, among others. And everywhere he wants to be free so he will jump naked in front of his camera.
He uses for inspiration the feeling of being completely lost in an area where he doesn't know the language, the street names, the people, etc. He tends to get his best pictures when he has a clear head and he has tunnel vision on his subject.
His first experience of jumping naked in front of the camera happened after Christmas of 2009 when he was at his home, without electricity and without weed. Outside it was a snowstorm so he went out on the empty streets and did his first naked pictures. After that, he moved to empty warehouses or abandoned factories. But his craziest adventure ever was to jump on the lawn of his state capital after some rallies.
At the beginning he was turned on doing this but now it is harder. He is also turned on when taking pictures in the bedroom or having sex in public places, especially in trains. He likes dirty talks and sex plays with ropes.
Morgan loves artists like Henri Cartier Bresson, Terry Richardson, Ryan McGinley, Jakob Lodwick, Chiamattt, Breakbot, Demetri Martin and detests party pic dudes that snap a picture of you and then twist their cameras around while the shutter is still open so their pictures look like they have more energy in them than meets the eye. But he also detests expensive cars, Facebook, cocaine, Jesus and Lady Gaga.
We are eager to see the result of his work but until then Morgan Tepsic was kind to answer exclusively to the questions fromStiriGay.ro about his future visit to Romania, about his project and, of course, about himself.
Your photos reflects an extraordinary freedom. Seeing them, we feel we want to jump next to you. Did you ever considered to have another people doing the same thing, in the same time, in the same picture as you?
Usually the people that help me with the pictures are not comfortable with getting naked with me. However, I do have a "masterpiece" in mind...but my lips are sealed on that until it happens.
We noticed you'll come to Romania too. What made you choose our country?
One of my good friends who has traveled throughout Europe turned me on to Romania...after researching it for a while I was sold. The architecture, the nature, everything. I can't wait to get naked there.
Do you plan your photo shoots from home? What is your plan for here, in Romania? Do you have a specific location?
Shoots are pretty spontaneous...which is probably why I almost never wear underwear or socks anymore. So I can strip down easily and get naked. So far, Retezat looks incredible... I'd love to hit some public places, but I need to plan that a bit more carefully. I'm sure I'll keep stopping and getting naked every place I go!
What means freedom for you?
Freedom to me is having an idea or dream and fucking going for it!
What are your expectations from this adventure, from Romania and from the whole trip too?
I try not to have any expectations about anything... Even with this nude project I didn't have any. I just wanted to get naked around in weird places, that was it. The only thing I expect from this trip is to visit some amazingly beautiful places, meet some nice joyful people and take pictures.
So he "detests Jesus," does he? What a sad person. What does he even KNOW about Jesus? Obviously very little. Perhaps it's no wonder that he's wasting his life pointlessly stripping in public.
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