April | 2019 | Petri Damstén

I have always found that the old model of what man should be is too restricted and often harmful. It inspired me to start this series and share my thoughts as images. “Toxic masculinity” term is used a lot nowadays and it was one of the things that made me think these issues more....

Masculinity, The Story

I was pretty happy when I got my first image published in 1x.com. I could not imagine that one day I would have 100.

Final and cover image for the Masculinity series.

Masculinity, Final Chapter

Continuing with the “Masculinity” series.I have always found that old model of what man should be is too restricted and often harmful. It inspired me to start this series and share my thoughts as images. For the “Background Shadows” idea transformed on the way and I used lighting from another image and only mask from...

Masculinity, part 3

Fstoppers Photo of the Day: “The Man and The Rose”.

Fstoppers Photo of the Day

Two more images for the masculinity series. It was a bit tight schedule for the photoshoot so for “The Scream” I took the bed sheet covered head separately afterwards. As I guessed it took some time and would have messed the schedule if done in the photoshoot.

Masculinity, part 2

I updated my portfolio and removed the series menu. I made cover images for all the series and used them as a grid instead. I think this looks cleaner.

Portfolio Update

First image from “Masculinity” photo shoot. There are more frames coming later. For this series I hand painted the background to an old cabinet door and photographed it as a texture. I quite like it and probably do more of those in the future. Start of the week included judging “Norwegian Championship, NSFF (Norwegian Society...

Patched Childhood

Jake visited for a photo project (coming later…) and we took couple of additional photos at the end of the shoot…