Elska #54 Rome

Elska is a bi-monthly photography and culture publication dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of gay communities all over the world. Each issue is made in a different city where readers get to know to several local gay guys through honest photography and personal storytelling. One article described Elska as "part intellectual queer pin-up mag and part sexy anthropology journal", and another as "probably the nicest, most sincere magazine ever". We quite like that!

About Elska Rome (Italy):

This fifty-fourth book in the Elska series marks our very first trip to Italy, a country that people have been asking us to visit for many years. And our focus city, chosen by our cohort of deluxe annual subscribers, is Rome. Epic, historic and not without some beautiful men, it's a wonder why it took us so long to get here!

Inside Elska Rome, writer and photographer Liam Campbell introduces the city through encounters with several of its local gay men. There are two key components to the Elska experience: photography and story. For the photographic portion, Liam shares honest and intimate images of the men he met here. They were photographed in their city streets, dressed in their own style, and also photographed at home, not dressed at all. For the story portion, Liam shares a narrative derived from extensive diaries kept during his visit to Rome. This includes details of moments shared with these men, conversations they had and a little bit of daydreaming inspired by them.

‘Elska Rome’ features ten chapters and the following local elskans: Dave P, Lorenzo D, Krish P, Andrewson M, Lucas G, Matteo B, Leonardo F, Enea F and Alan G.