Tag: nudity

  • Henry Miller: Focusing on the Male Form

    Henry Miller: Focusing on the Male Form

      Henry Miller Fine Art has a unique collection of work that focusses on the male form that its founder has been collecting for several years.  Its permanent home is in a beautifully restored East London period home, but for the next 10 days, there is an exhibition of selected works at the Coningsby Gallery in Londons…

  • Elska Magazine captures the Men of Cape Town

    Elska Magazine captures the Men of Cape Town

      For its latest edition Elska Magazine, the bi-monthly gay photography and culture publication has traveled to Cape Town in South Africa.  It’s a country where homosexuality was legalized in 1996 by the post-apartheid Constitution which was also the first in the world to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. South Africa was the fifth country in the world, and…

  • Fabrio da Motta getting all tied up in knots

    Fabrio da Motta getting all tied up in knots

      The Sao Paulo based Brazilian photographer Fabio da Motta has developed quite an affinity with ‘shibari’ which is an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage.  He has taken a series of very powerful images that explore bondage as an integral part of his compositions. His stunning body of work is very inspired by…

  • Aaron Jay Young explores his queer male body

    Aaron Jay Young explores his queer male body

      L.A. photographer Aaron Jay Young has a whole diverse body of work that includes being the guy with the camera on the set of Ru Paul’s Drag Race TV Show to a portfolio of portraits and real estate photography.   However, this latest project is highly personal as it is a series of self-portraits that sets out the male…

  • 1950’s iconic beefcake magazine PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL is relaunched

    1950’s iconic beefcake magazine PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL is relaunched

      In the 1950’s censorship was so strict it was nigh on impossible to get your hands on naked men ……well, photos of them at least. That started to change in 1951 when American photographer Bob Mizer found a way around the legal restrictions by making his naked models use athletic and bodybuilding poses like in…