24 Portraits of Elska's Men Around the World

For each edition of Elska, the team travels to a different city and heads to social media to recruit locals to be photographed and write a personal story. Everyone is welcome as long as they live in the city, no matter their age, race, body type, sexuality, etc. As a result the 15 or so men spotlighted in each "bookazine" reveal a spontaneous and authentic glimpse at life in the featured city as it is, not idealized or contrived. The men don’t have styles dictated and the locations are not specially selected — rather they are simply shot in their homes and in various neighbourhoods, and they wear their own clothes or sometimes nothing at all. Then the stories accompanying them are totally free format, published in their original languages and followed by English translations, letting each use their individual voices to tell us something about themselves and life in their city.