The Bush is Back
24 Studies in Hair
Some men photograph beautifully precisely because they haven’t done anything to themselves.
That combination is much rarer in imagery than it ought to be, and it is honestly more compelling than the alternative.
Body hair does something to a photograph that smoothness alone cannot. It introduces texture where there was only a line, and weight where there was only definition. It anchors a man in his biology rather than some aspirational version of it. That anchoring is what makes an image feel genuinely tactile rather than just decorative.
We’ve had twenty years of the other thing. It was all buffed, hairless, and geometrically perfect. It was beautiful, sure, but it felt increasingly airless. It was like admiring architecture you would never want to live in.
Hair puts the life back into the shot.
These twenty-four photographs show exactly that. Each one is a study in contrast, where definition meets density and discipline meets wildness. They are more honest, and because of that, more affecting than the smooth aesthetic ever managed to be.
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