Celebrating Queer Identity and Recovery Through Artistic Expression

Explore raw emotion and body-based storytelling in my unique photography and visual art.

Welcome to Expos’d

I’m Robert, and this is more than a website it’s the kind of space I wish I had found decades ago when I was navigating serious psychological and physical health challenges. When I needed to see others expressing their authentic selves. Finding connection from community. I felt silenced by government policy, peers, employers, social platforms, and a constant feeling like the morality police were dictating what I could express. I'm on a long and ongoing journey of recovery both from chronic illness, and psychological discomfort and rejection. As part of this process I have come to understand how vital it is to express ourselves to feel heard, and create real human connection without fear, censorship, or judgement. And that's what I hope to create over time in this bubble I've created.

My story

A space to be real, raw, and seen.

I’m Rob and this isn’t just a website. It’s a reclamation.

I’ve lived a life that could fill several timelines over. From the outside, I’ve often been the outcast, the 'too much', the 'not enough'. But inside... I’ve fought to survive, to be kind, to love, to express myself safely, to stay here.

My life has been a rollercoaster of joy and devastation
Rejected by people for who I am.
Silenced by shame, homophobia, and sexual abuse.
Growing up terrified by the AIDS pandemic as a queer kid developing under the shadow of Section 28, where even mentioning homosexuality at school was banned.
All while trying to make sense of a world that seemed hostile to people who are different, like me, and possibly you.

I learned early on to mask, to strive, to outperform until I couldn’t anymore.

The Breakdown That Became My Breakthrough

In 2020, I was working on the NHS Covid testing scheme pilot, getting it ready to rollout at the height of the pandemic. Already burnt out, and struggling mentally I kept pushing. Then a simple throat infection hit and my central nervous system said "that's it, I'm forcing you to rest now whether you like it or not!"
My nervous system finally fully collapsed under the pressures. I spent the next 8 months mostly in bed, unable to tolerate light, sound, conversation. It felt like I was rotting from the inside out.

During the lead-up to this, I knew something was deeply wrong, doctors dismissed me:

“Your bloods are fine.”
“You look great.”
“There’s nothing wrong with you.”

But I knew something was terribly wrong. And like so many people like me, I wasn’t believed.

I lost my ability to function. I couldn’t hold a conversation, take a shower, or walk down the street. I went from high-achieving and hyper-independent to utterly dependent on my partner and others for survival. I disappeared from public life. Online forums where I sought support and understanding from others in the same situation felt hopeless and full of despair, but not direction. I needed to find my own way out.

Eventually, I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and told:

“You’ll never be more than 80% of who you were.”

This was from a trained nurse in the CFS Service! Talk about encouraging optimism and a positive mindset for recovery!

Needless to say I walked away from that service and never went back.

Why EXPOS'D Exists

In that dark space, something began to grow:
A fire to create, connect, reclaim.
To say the things we’re not meant to say.
To be visible in a world that constantly tries to erase us.

EXPOS’D is the result of that. A dedicated personal space, where I can be creative, sick, angry, healing, expressive and to be seen without fear of judgement, misunderstanding or shame.
No shadow bans. No moral policing. No filters to make our lives more “palatable.”

Just truth, in all its explicit glory, mess and beauty.

I'm also about to start my 2nd year photography BA after a very testing and strenuous first. I began a degree to compliment my old skool photography diploma and try to fire up the synapses again, it's been really hard so far, but I am determined to finish. I'm not aiming for high grades, just getting over the finish line is the goal. My work here will obviously be informed by uni, but there will be lots of personal projects too, so I can keep my own creative energy flowing separately from the structured briefs of academic life and get the autonomy my nervous system and mind so deeply crave.

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Want behind the scenes access, deeper stories, and the works they have inspired on tap? Early gallery launches, and soulful connection?
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EXPOS’D isn’t here to impress anyone. It’s here for me to express myself through various mediums, and get everything out of my head and translated into something cathartic, aiding my recovery from my ailments once and for all.
Come as you are. Stay as long as you need.
You belong here too.

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Subscribe to my newsletter, a simple update alerting you of new work, posts and explorations. I promise you won't be spammed. I'm doing this all on my own, in my spare time alongside my NHS job. I have limited energy, and will only be posting as and when work is ready and I'm able, which won't be often, I can assure you. But please do join me on this journey of healing and discovery as I navigate university, and remolding the plasticity of my brain and re-firing those sleepy synapses back into action. I'd appreciate the support, it's a tough road to tread.

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Expos'd Art

2020 - Present

Exploring layers of life through multi-faceted, sensory artistic expressions.

Unique Artistic Vision

Neurodivergent Artist

2020 - 2023

A personal journey of discovery and recovery; from shame to resilience depicted through sensual reawakening, queer themes, solidarity and unabridged expressive sovereignty.

Celebrating Queer Identity Through Art

Expos'd is a queer-owned photography platform celebrating authenticity, raw emotion, and body-based storytelling, offering a space for creative liberation and connection in the UK.

Your Artistic Liberation Space

Unapologetic. Sensual. Authentic.

Founded by neurodivergent artist Rob, Expos'd embraces nudity, kink-friendly expression, and queer themes, providing a bold, uncensored exploration of identity and resilience through layered visual installations and photography.

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