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"Powerful and provocative,
this image by Moscow-based photographer Seva Galkin forms part of
series sexing up the profile of the country's military. Our lone
comrade stands at the urinal in the red-lit toilet block, this
ruggedly muscled frame suggesting a threat that's almost entirely
undone by the vulnerability of his beautiful bare arse."
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"I
specifically created this type of Russian muscle boy. I went a
little bit with the stereotype. Many see Russians as kind of hulks
or “bears.” The matter is that in Russia
there are many different types of people as is the case everywhere.
I just really like muscled models." |
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“I look for plasticity; a body shaped by fitness
and, of course, a glitter in the eyes”. |
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"One senses his Slavic
soul scarred by the collective memory of hard times and
deprivation". |
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"Das westliche Auge
sieht das naturlich anders, was auch den Reiz seiner Aufnahmen
ausmacht. Und noch etwas spricht fur den kurzlich erschienenen
zweiten Fotoband "RUS": Seva Galkin und seine Arbeiten sind nach wie
vor eine Raritat im nicht gerade schwulenfreundlichen Russland." |
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