A brand new worldwide photo competition is about to get off the ground in December 2016 and you're invited to be a part of it. Join in and submit your best gay fetish photos. If your photographs are successful in the competition, you could be the winner one of the following cash prizes: 1st [...]
Originally as an ongoing project exploring biker culture through intimate portraits, Sam Benger delves through the pages of the newly released acclaimed Bikershot: The Photo Book, a collection of bikers with their gear, their brands and their bikes. "Rebels without a cause" is a saying that conjures up images when thinking of the roots and history of biking culture. Of late [...]
Photographer Cedric Lefebvre of Brussels, known to many a motorbiking leathermen via biker networks, reveals the hidden subculture of bikers through a series of intimate portraits in his new book, Bikershot. Due for release in November, to some the new book will uncover a 'hidden' biker culture and to those in the gay biking community not surprised [...]
Mounting Tom LeatherWest expands its Tom of Finland range, launching a new exclusive product available to readers, supporters, leathermen and their friends, reports Sam Benger. Following the release of the limited edition of the Tom of Finland stamps by Finland Post and the Tom of Finland Foundation, LeatherWest thought that the historic release of the stamps [...]
Chris Malford reports on the global release of the eagerly awaited "leather men's stamps" by Finland Post. Since April this year, when Finland Post made the surprise announcement that they were to honour Tom of Finland, leather men have been waiting for the day to get their hands on their very own "bit of Tom". [...]
Leather Pride Gromit by Clive of Cheltenham. Gromit, one of the beloved icons of Bristol, has suddenly come over all 'leather pride' thanks to the skills of a local leathermen in the West. [no_toc] Clive, based in Cheltenham, spotted a competition where by entrants were asked to paint their own Gromit for a [...]
Tom of Finland, Untitled, c.1978, graphite on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins (MA-FINLT-00001) © Tom of Finland ® Foundation, used with permission, all rights reserved The first solo exhibition of work by Tom of Finland in the UK. This show at Modern Art is comprised of some 30 figurative [...]
Chris Malford reports on a rare opportunity to see original Tom of Finland artwork. Just as the 'Leather Season' is traditionally at its quietest, the opening of Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition in London sees this Summer's leather opportunities being described as "super radical and fierce", to quote the exhibition's curator Sarah McCrory. Within a collection of eight artists brought together where one common aspect is [...]