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More than 300 images from Elton John<\/strong> and his husband David Furnish<\/strong>‘s extensive photography collection are currently on display at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Elton is one of the world’s foremost collectors of photography, but says there’s one kind he hates \u2014 photos of himself.<\/p>\n

“It’s extraordinary that I collect photographs because I don’t like being photographed,” Elton told the BBC<\/strong><\/a>. “I find it really painful.” He adds, “I would never put myself up on the wall [at home], no thank you.”<\/p>\n

Furnish laughs, “The paradox of someone who appreciates and has a sophisticated eye for photographs yet cannot stand to be photographed is not lost on me.” There are<\/em> two photos of Elton in the exhibit, but they’re more irreverent and don’t show him performing.<\/p>\n

The exhibit, called Fragile Beauty,<\/em> includes images of everything from the Civil Rights Movement and AIDS activism to 9\/11 and the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Noting that the exhibit includes “a lot of pain and grief,” Elton explains, “Sometimes in tragic images, whether it’s paintings or photographs, there’s a lot of beauty. And that’s why the show’s called Fragile Beauty,<\/em> because there’s beauty in everything.”<\/p>\n

Elton says he was “absolutely blown away” to see his collection on display, because he hadn’t really gotten a good look at a lot of the photos he owns.<\/p>\n

“You buy photographs and they go straight into storage,” he says. “And a lot of them I haven’t seen hung properly or hung at all. And so walking through, it’s been hung so beautifully and the different sections and wall colors. I couldn’t be happier.”<\/p>\n

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