Rethinking My Motivation... with Lucas M by Jean-Baptiste Huong
- LIAM C.
- Jun 23, 2016
- 2 min read
The story that Jean-Baptiste Huong wrote to accompany his Lucas M series in the Elska Taipei issue really got me thinking. In it he discusses how he's able to get the attention of men who he perceives to be vastly more attractive than him though the process of photographing them. It is actually a motivation for photographing them at all. It made me wonder if this ability to be up close with beautiful men is a motivation for me too.
My natural, instinctual response is that this is not my motivation. Certainly there is no sexual attraction going on when I shoot my boys, no matter how hot or how naked they are. But then perhaps that's more because I'm too busy concentrating on the camera to give sex any thought.
I do recall one time scrawling a text onto a model's naked body using lipstick. He was ten years younger than me and had abs better than Jesus on the cross. There's no way I he'd have let me put my hands on his naked body for any other reason.
And then what happened? When it came time to wash the lipstick off, I went into the shower with him to help him scrub it all off. Even then I didn't get a boner, and it's not that I have issues with impotency. Not yet anyway!
So I don't know, I stand by my response. What I would say is that I love beauty and that I love to capture and reproduce it. Maybe photography is my way of being close to beauty, but it's not some sneaky way of perving up to fit lads. Then again, perhaps I've misunderstood J-P Huong's text. He's also in it for the beauty, and is just a little bit of a pervert!
Elska Boy: Lucas M
Location: Paris, France
Photographer:Jean-Baptiste Huong
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