Where does the time go when you are having fun …… and looking at a seemingly endless flow of some wonderfully diverse queer men from around the globe? Liam Campbell the Editor In Chief of ELSKA our favorite queer photo-zine mag told Queerguru that they are actually celebrating their 7th Anniversary this month.
We are proud to say that we have been there every step of the way as ELSKA has published thirty-eight issues, each dedicated to a different city and including a range of everyday gay, bi, trans, and queer men living in the targeted city
Keeping to its mission the project has been dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of extraordinarily beautiful ordinary men from LGBTQ communities around the world. With each issue we are made to feel as if we have traveled to the city and got to know LGBTQ life thereby meeting some locals.
The men in Elska are not celebrities or models; they are our friends, our lovers, our brothers, our partners, the people we love — indeed the name ‘Elska’ means ‘love’ in Icelandic. Elska aims to show that LGBTQ people exist everywhere and deserve our attention, and also Elska seeks to highlight a range of locations so as to emphasize simultaneously how different gay life is based on where you live and also how the hopes and wants of people everywhere are essentially the same. whole world is queer, beautiful, and to be loved.
We asked Liam Campbell how he came to start Elska in the first place. He told Queerguru “My initial idea was simply to find an outlet for my passions for photography and travel. I chose cities based on where I personally wanted to visit and then I just met whoever I could find there, spontaneously and without any special selection criteria.”
“Furthermore” he added “it is through visibility and a sincere portrayal of diversity we can erode all the ‘-isms’ that plague our community I have been seeing a gradual increase in positive attitudes towards diversity over the past couple of years, and it’s fuelled me to keep going. It’s also convinced me to keep visiting more unexpected locations.”
Elska’s collectible print publications are sold in select shops around the world and for order online. Also available
are limited edition signed art prints, e-zines, annual subscriptions, and more.
A list of stockists and more information can be found on www. elskamagazine.com
Posted by queerguru at 13:28
Labels: 2022, Elska, locals, photo zine, queer men
