According to Homotography, the following photo shoot is “inspired by online hook-ups and the masks/roles created through online profiles”. With a lead in like that, how could we not feature this on Manhunt Daily? It’s only icing on the cake that the images are totally fucking hot!
The photographer behind this shoot is self-trained, and he goes by the name of Y.M.I.J. He’s got some pretty impressive (or at the very least, equally hot) shots in his portfolio, so be sure to head over to his blog and check them out.
– Dewitt
Photo credit: Y.M.I.J.
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nice…the guys are hot…and the shots don’t seem like they’re overly produced…they make their point very well
…and I like his blog as well
The last pix is my favorite very professional & sexy at the same time .
Fantastic!
except they don’t really have anything to do with hookups or identity, they’re just semi-erotic photos of men in underwear. wearing masks.
Ummm… deadgirls… That is what the masks represent.. Unknown identities on hook up sites… Sheesh.. Draw a picture! Oh wait! That’s what these photos are about!
Love the pics! Very hot!
I have to agree with deadgirl. I never would’ve thought that this photo shoot represented what the photographer wanted it to mean. I would’ve got it if the masks were bigger, more audacious, and highly misleading… these guys look like they were bored with screwing in bed and decided to wear tiny Mardi Gras masks instead… for the shot, its hot, but for what it meant, it’s not.
Awkwardly posed models with pantomime, silent-movie expressions on their faces, luckily partially covered with masks retreived from a gutter on Bourbon Street on Ash Wednesday. I knew Janice Dickenson had a modeling school, but when did Gloria Swanson get into the act? “Self-taught” went without saying. Owning a digital camera doesn’t make one a photographer.
Put these up against Mapplethorpe, and it looks like bad student photography. Hell, put them up against most student photographers, and he’d be nowhere near the top of the class. Neither inspiring nor inspired.
Far to plain, the lack of emotion that the pics give are huge, just 2 boys with nothing better to do, would love to see bigger mask and the fragility of people behind then…
Love the blog though…
thanks manhuntdaily for posting this, homotography didn’t really explain my “abstract” view on this.A while back i did a photoshoot with the concept of homoerotic work, I wanted to tackle the world of hooking up through my perspective and thoughts of it , Now i wasn’t going to do this literally by having a computer and a Guy, Its a abstract view. The masks are a form of symbolism, which represent the profiles that are created and the roles that person wants to play in the online exchange . You have nothing more then a Profile/Mask to go off of. A character is created and in most situation the characters that are created are aggregated, But thats the mask they feel most comfortable putting on. The handcuffs act as a metaphor, which symbolize the repressed and at times guilty urges that are easier to fulfill through anonymous sex. A CEO is now the subordinate bottom. Again a abstract view that wasn’t meant to be literal. Thanks for the critiques.
Why do you have to explain away the handcuffs? The bondage is one of the best parts of this photoshoot. You could have gone a lot further with that. And it’s pretty common for bondage bottoms to be high-powered guys.