The Art of Liam Campbell

Elska is a bimonthly male photography, culture and travel magazine that bills itself as “part intellectual queer pinup mag and part sexy anthropology journal.” Every two months it features images and stories from queer men living in a different international location, including Yokohama, Japan; Haifa, Israel; Mumbai, India; Taipei, Taiwan; Bogotá, Colombia; Cape Town, South Africa; and Perth, Australia.

Writing in the online magazine Hornet, Daniel Villarreal notes that the recent Los Angeles edition of Elska features “some of L.A.’s most talented gays in their natural habitat” as photographed by Liam Campbell, Elska's founder, editor and chief photographer.

Born in Chicago, Campbell has spent most of his life in London where he studied photography for a year before attempting to get a “real job.” He returned to photography full-time in 2014 after, he says, life without art had become “too much like suffering.” Since then he has worked in fashion, engaged in portrait work, and launched Elska in 2015.

In Villarreal's Hornet article, Campbell is quoted as saying that his images for Elska: Los Angeles are “natural, un-airbrushed and spontaneous; and the stories [of the subjects featured] are personal tales rather than regurgitated press releases.” Adds Villarreal: “[T]here’s also a refreshing mix of queer men of different races, ages and body types, giving you a clearer, more intimate glimpse of Los Angeles that you’d ever get from glossy magazines or through the Hollywood machine.”

Related Off-site Link: Elska Magazine

See also: The Art of Richard Vyse | David Jester | Aaron Moth | Travis Chantar | Douglas Simonson | Guglielmo Plüschow | Vilela Valentin | Dante Cirquero | Nebojsa Zdravkovic | Brenden Sanborn | Wilhelm von Gloeden | Richard Haines | John MacConnell | Leo Rydell Jost | Jim Ferringer | Juliusz Lewandowski | Felix d'Eon | Herbert List | Joe Ziolkowski

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