48-year-old, Mormon-raised Californian, Michael Stokes hasn’t always been a photographer. He used to sell houses and before that he was a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Then in 2005, when he realised the market was going into freefall, he gave it all up and pursued his love of collecting and taking photographs.
When he first launched his photography website, Stokes revealed that his mother was horrified and wrote him a five-page letter saying that he could be assassinated, be put in jail, and asking if he was having a mid-life crisis! But thank God, Stokes persevered as he’s got an eye for male beauty, and he knows what makes a masculine man.
Masculinity sums up Michael Stokes’ work: strength, sex appeal and the perfection of the male body.
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• Masculinity is published by Bruno Gmunder Verlag
