Over the past eight years I've published forty-three editions of my Elska Magazine project, with each issue made in a different city and focused on sharing stories and photographs of ordinary local men. Last month we invited members of our Editors Circle, which includes all our deluxe annual subscribers and…

Reflecting on our seventh year’s worth of local boys and local stories As we approach the end of another year, it's a good opportunity to look back at Elska in 2022. Here I'll reflect on each of the six Elska issues released this year. …

This month I am celebrating seven years of my Elska project. During this time I've visited thirty-eight cities all over the world, met and photographed over six hundred men, and have published their images and stories in thirty-eight lovely little bookazines that I call Elska Magazine. When I started Elska…

A message from Madrid It was the final day of my anniversary holiday, a road trip in Europe that my husband and I had been saving up for since we got married five years ago. We were…

In the autumn of 2018 I went to France to shoot what would become the twentieth issue of Elska Magazine. Ever since I started my Elska project back in 2015 I've had a real thing for featuring cities one might not expect. For example I chose to highlight Yokohama (instead…

Last September as I was preparing to shoot our Elska Montréal issue, I started to worry about what I was going to do with our assistant there. In the first year of Elska we always had an assistant at each location, but after a few years of lone-wolfing it, the…

Reflecting on a year's worth of our local boys and local stories As we approach the end of another year, I'd like to take the time to reflect on the past year of Elska content, and also to give a few stats and 'awards' surrounding this year's Elska issues. What…

Over the past five-and-a-bit years I've travelled around the world to produce Elska Magazine, a series of publications highlighting gay lives through photography and personal storytelling. It's been a busy job, but I always managed to make it run like clockwork — one new city and one new issue every…

When I started my Elska project I originally intended to produce a publication that was akin to a classic zine — small, staple-bound, maybe sixty or seventy pages max, and charmingly rough — inspired by the smutty little queer zines I saw in smutty little shops around London's Soho. Starrfucker…