Josh McNey is a photographer from New York who grew up in California and has spent several years in the United States Marine Corps. Most of his pictures deal with masculinity and the ways it is constructed, the best example may be his series of wrestlers I already recommended last year. On a blog which is part on his website he regularly publishes pictures of new shootings, mostly portraits like the two ones I posted below showing a guy called Christopher. I just found them on The Summer Diary Project. Click here for McNey’s website, here for his blog and here for an interview with him published on POSI+TIVE Magazine.
The following pictures are shot by a guy who’s flickr-profile is called “sud273” and who’s purpose in life seems to be travelling around and photographing wrestling fights and fighters all over the world. The funny thing about his pictures: they’re good, even compared to the ones of a professional photographer like Josh McNey, who’s “wrestling project” pictures I recommended last week. Seems like this is a kind of aesthetical voyeurism everybody can live with, even the guys themselves.
PHOTOGRAPHY: The website of New York based photographer Josh McNey (I especially recommend the wrestling project). POLITICS: The blog of Bash Back, a network of radical, anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects. DESIGN/ARCHITECTURE: The site of Scott Jarvie (I like his “Clutch Chair“).
By accident I just found out that there’s a nice new song and a new video by MEN featuring the Manhattan gay wrestling club “Metro Wrestling”. The video is directed by Matt Wolf, who (if it really is the same guy) also shot this documentary “Wild Combination” about Arthur Russel. Nice.
Click here to get to an article of a guy who took courses in Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu to “explore the homoerotic untertones” of MMC. It’s fun to read, although sentences like “Sometimes there’s not much difference between fighting and fucking, particularly when you’re talking about two men; both are power struggles about domination and submission” are kind of awkward. The author also talks about Shad Smith, the first openly gay MMC fighter who is not so openly gay anymore since he told the world he is. Here you see him fight (left):
