

WE DIDN’T CHOOSE BEARDED GUYS ON PURPOSE… WITH RAPHAEL K
If you ever wanted to know how we choose our “Elska Boys”, here’s how: We go on gay dating sites and other social media and start...


I WANT TO BE LIKE TINA BELCHER… WITH MAX E
“I’m a smart, strong, sensual woman”, says Tina Belcher in an episode of “Bob’s Burgers” when she proclaims her own self worth instead of...


NEW YORK WEEKEND WITHOUT SETTING FOOT ON MANHATTAN… WITH KYLE A
I was taking a little holiday weekend in New York, with the personal challenge to do so without ever setting foot on Manhattan. I have to...


DON’T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT MAGADAN LOOKS LIKE?… WITH ROMAN T
One of the men we shot for the Berlin issue was Roman T, a Russian native who’d been living in Berlin for several years with his German...


“NO, HE’S NOT BLACK, HE’S BRAZILIAN”… WITH DIEGO S
One of the most interesting legacies of having spent my childhood in America was the casual racism that permeated everyday life. After...


DRAG QUEENS AND PANCAKES IN THE DESERT…WITH SCOTTY P
When I was a flight attendant, the holy grail of trips you could get was the 6-day Los Angeles trip. With most long-haul flights, the...


A GEORGIAN STEW FOR THREE, NO TWO… WITH MAX E
Wednesday was a particularly busy day of our Berlin shoot week. After three days in a row of going until late evening with only our...


SHOULD WE GO TO TEL AVIV?… WITH SHIR N
I was very close to choosing Tel Aviv as the location for Issue (04). First of all, it would look drastically different from the past...


FINDING YOUR WORK COLLEAGUES ON GRINDR… WITH MIN-HYEOK
Before Elska began, or shall we say in the term of pregnancy, I was working as a flight attendant. On layovers I would be out shooting...


THE WAY I AM (A TEARS FOR FEARS STORY)… WITH DIEGO S
I lived in Chicago as a child, not in a suburb but it may as well have been, for it was far from the downtown in a mainly Polish...