Growing up in the 1950s, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent "physique" magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island. "Fire Island sounded exotic, perhaps a name made up by the photographer," he recalls i[...]

Tom Bianchi is for sure, not a photographer who cares about conventions. Aseptic shootings with professionally posing models aren't his cup of tea. He rather uses his camera to catch the moment. Like nobody else, Bianchi is capable of capturing the spontaneous, rough energy that sex between men set[...]