What determines masculinity?
I don’t know. That is what made me want to do the project in the first place. As a gay man I have constantly asked this of myself as I tried to place myself in some kind of spectrum from masculine to feminine, but I was always tripped up by the question of what masculinity is in the first place. I wanted the project to be a way to explore this idea of what masculinity is or could be for a wide variety of people. Some of the photographs’ details are almost comic. To what extent is this project exploitative of these guys’ conception of themselves as masculine, inviting the positive or negative opinions of the audience? It is definitely exploitative to a degree. I don’t think that I can escape from that, though in the end that is inconsequential to the ideas that are being talked about. People may find a lot of comedic details in the photograph, but I feel that is reflection of their own ideas of masculinity and how a subject may or may not fit into that concept. Once again, the subject d
