The Photos...

The bulk of my work, the core of Disappointed Virginity, is of course the photographs. Since the mid-ninties I have been working on these images, which remain an obsession to this day. Read more →

The Films...

My work under the Disappointed Virginity banner made the transition from still to movement with my series of short films, exploring similar themes to my photographic images.Read more →

The Mutoscopes...

A series of animations, made using the mutoscope or flicker book technique. These are put together from sometimes hundreds of individual photos, to create a living portrait and breath more life into my work.Read more →

Other Projects

Other works that further explore my themes, albeit with the occasional splash of sometime colour. Including "The Futile Nature of Eroticism" and "Faults Upon the Theme of Distortion". Read more →

"Under the banner of "Disappointed Virginity", Marc Blackie has created for himself a self contained monochrome world. Herein he explores his sexually charged mindscapes via the mediums of photography, short film and animation, exploring the nature of eroticism and picking away at the sinister underbelly of desire.

Each of his still or moving pieces convey their own individual narrative yet also exist entirely in context within this world, in what he describes as "A blend of the erotic, the surreal and the anhedonic".

Citing influences from such figures as Hans Bellmer, Koji Wakamatsu and Georges Bataille and with an (un)healthy dose of pornographic imagery, his highly stylized and unique work is simultaneously laced with a certain dark humour and a queasily unnerving quality. ".