If you have never seen an issue of ELSKA MAGAZINE the highly coveted series of photo-essays by Brit artist/journalist Liam Campbell, then where have you been as he is already up to Issue 11. Campbell descends on a city of his choice and photographs men. All sorts of men, and as diverse as possible. None of them are models or pin-up boys but just interesting local men he comes across who are just typical of the city’s gay population. Sometimes he captures their images in the street, and also often in the natural habitat at home. He even encourages a few to take their clothes off (for the photograph of course).
Each picture, with a help of a few words, carries their personal stories which make us want to relate to the men he has chosen as his subjects.
So far Campbell has trotted the globe and shot issues in Berlin, Reykjavík, Taipei, Mumbai, Istanbul and Yokohama to name a few, but this is the very first time he has ventured on to US soil as his latest issue is set in Providence, Rhode Island. Slightly bemused by his choice of venue, queerguru asked Elska’s Editor In Chief why not New York or San Francisco first? “When I first first visited Providence about a year ago, I instantly fell in love with the city and thought it deserved our attention. It’s an attractive, artful, and bigger-than-you’d-think capital.It’s a real testament to what America is supposed to be”, Campbell continued “Despite the racist and xenophobic rhetoric to piggyback Trump’s election, our Providence experience showed that America is still a place where people of different races, beliefs, and identities can be equally at home. There was a defiant attitude amongst the men we met and shot in Providence, capital of a solidly liberal state.”
Elska’s Providence issue is 164 pages and is available in a classic print ‘bookazine’ or in a electronic download version for tablet/iPad. It can be purchased, along with back issues, from selected stockists or direct at http://www.elskamagazine.com
P.S. queerguru thinks you may like to check out http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/2017/03/the-men-of-mumbai and
http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/2016/09/15271 and
http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/2017/01/elskas-men-of-yokohama
Labels: 2017, culture, Elska, eye candy, nudity, photographs
