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How to get promoted

Whether the economy is booming or stumbling along, taking charge of your career and planning your next step should always…

Images from a Taiwan fanboy… with Stanza T

Occasionally I’ll receive an email out of the blue from someone who’s heard about or reads Elska. In the email there’ll be a bunch of self-portraits attached and a short message saying that they’d love to be in Elska if I ever come to their city. These…

My Nata Craving Unfulfilled… with Miguel A

When I first visited Lisbon with my bf, before the Elska days, I remember going to Pastéis de Belém. It was the place recommended by the guidebook for the best natas, and with no other local knowledge, I followed the book’s advice. We got on the tram at…

“With the First Snow Comes New Love”… with Sasha P

[ORIGINAL IN RUSSIAN; ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS]

Мясо наелось мяса, мясо наелось спаржи,
Мясо наелось рыбы и налилось вином.
И расплатившись с мясом, в полумясном экипаже
Вдруг покатило к мясу в шляпе с большим пе…

A Hybrid of Their Two Personalities… with Joey M

On 7th March I posted about meeting Joey M as part of my 3200ISO experiments, and mentioned how we shot him in his flatmate Marcos’s room ‘cos Joey’s girlfriend was in his own room and didn’t want to be disturbed.

Glenn W wasn’t part of the plan for the Reykjavík issue. We were supposed to shoot his boyfriend, Troy, but he wasn’t able to. Then he rescheduled, but sort of chickened out. Honestly I was a bit pissed off, but then suddenly he said “maybe you can shoot my boyfriend instead”… and that boyfriend was Glenn.

City Beach — Perth, Australia

Liviu, 27th March 2016

On the Edge of Indecency… with Julien P

I can be very sensitive about people assuming that Elska is or contains porn. It’s not that I have a problem with porn. I even use it sometimes. Yet I don’t like to think of Elska as porn, as if it’s a dirty word (blame my nine years of Catholic schooling…

There won’t be any less of us…

If I was a woman I would marry Rachel Maddow.

Small World Lisbon… with Daniel T

After doing the Reykjavík issue, set in the capital city of a country with just 325,000 people, I saw just what a small world it could be. I ran into several of the guys we shot by chance in the street, at the mall, whilst driving; not to mention on the pages of the…