FROM THE STREETS TO FASHION AND THEN TOWARDS ELSKA
How did Elska begin? I get asked this question a lot and the answer is that it was a process. A little over a year ago I started a job as...
АЛЕ ТІЛУ ХОТІЛОСЬ ГРІХА (BUT MY BODY WANTED TO SIN)… WITH SASHA K
Usually the inspirations for shoots come from songs I’d been listening to in the weeks prior to heading to a new location, but the song...
SOMETIMES FASHION IS JUST CLOTH, NOT CLOTHES… WITH KAMAL B
First off, I should be clear that whatever Elska Magazine is, it is not a fashion magazine. That’s not to say that we don’t care about...
IN A COUNTRY OF NATURE IS A CITY WITHOUT… WITH ADRIAN M
I’d never been to Central America before, apart from a very unpleasant three hours in Tijuana, half of which was spent in the US...
I’M NOT RACIST, I’M JUST NOT INTO ASIANS… WITH KAMAL B.
Whenever I photography someone from a minority race (I’m writing from a British perspective), I’m always a bit angered by the tiny number...
WHY NOT TO USE GRINDR… WITH ARTUR M
One of the main questions we get asked is how we find our Elska boys. Generally there are three ways… Sometimes they contact us directly,...
ON GÈLE DANS LE MILE-END MAIS ON GÈLE EN BEAUTÉ… WITH YBERÊ B
One of the joys of making Elska Magazine, at least in its early stages, is the freedom to choose any destination imaginable for the...
€20 AND OTHER THINGS LOST… WITH MARKO K
My friend Matt, an academic and professor with a penchant for post-communist places, decided to join me for a few days during my shoot...
A POST-APOCALYPTIC PICNIC… WITH MARKO K
My first night in Lviv was almost fully sleepless. Perhaps it was the excitement of the upcoming packed day of shooting, or perhaps it...
UKRAINIAN BLUE FROM AMERICAN APPAREL… WITH OLEG B
So there was a bit of inauthenticity in this shoot. Though I like to do Elska shoots with the boys wearing their own clothes, I did make...
