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 Leipzig, and while he was freshening up for dinner I decided to check my messages. There…

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…

One of my main goals with my Elska Magazine project is to give a wide variety of geographical diversity, and by consequence human diversity, through my collection of issues. Over the past five years I've produced thirty-two different editions so far, and at least one has been made on every…

A couple weeks ago I decided to launch a vote so that Elska readers could choose the location of one of 2021’s future issues. …

As we approach the end of another calendar year, it’s the perfect time to look back on what we’ve done, where we’ve been, and who we’ve met at Elska. When the year started I never imagined how insane 2020 would have turned out. Fortunately for us though, all but the…