Let’s face it. Older people are not often the subject of choice for photographers, especially when they’re engaging in love or intimacy. But in a number of new publications and exhibits, several photographers have taken what’s usually hidden or invisible and instead, publicly presented seniors in surprising and unexpected ways.

First, take a look and listen to Isadora Kosofsky, a young documentary photographer whose recent TED Talk displayed haunting images of 3 seniors caught between loneliness and love while involved in a romantic triangle. Or take a look at this recent New Yorker profile of the work of photographer Matthew Morrocco, a young artist who has documented, with permission, the trysts in which he’s engaged with older gay men. And then you can open up the new book To Survive on This Shore, which profiles through photography the lives of older transgender and gender non-conforming older adults. Finally, from the Dutch foundation GetOud comes new photography that vividly demonstrates that personal expression, and tattoo imagery, doesn’t disappear just because you’ve reached retirement age. All of these works of photography demonstrate that despite advancing age there is no reason to lose the individuality, sexuality, or idiosyncrasies that made us unique as younger people.