Photographer Pascal D’Ameyal Loves Men At Work

Pascal D'Ameyal's male portraits focus on guys who build their muscles at work or in the battlefield rather than at the gym. It's like a blue-collar worker fetish, but only if you consider "half-naked Roman gladiator" working class.

And in fact, we would argue that a Roman gladiator or a barbarian warlord to sit in the same class as your buff firefighter or motorcycle gang member. All of them evoke images of strong men who work up a sweat for a living. The characters in these photographs would take one look at the pretty-boy models we spend all our time fawning over and run them through with a spear. Or maybe throw a snake at them… We don't know what the whole snake thing it about.

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