Photographed in 2013 and introduced to me by my friend Leandro, I had the opportunity to meet one of the very few Vietnamese guys in my collection of Asian male images. Taken back by his blond hair (as I think jet black hair on Asians are perfectly beautiful), I tried hard to get him to take off his pants for me, but to no avail. He wouldn’t go beyond shirtless. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed. In my books, if I am going to photograph any guy for this project, they have to do more than shirtless or underwear only. I have no interest to shoot something for the sake of simple pretty boy photographs that gets plastered on IG or for their own showing off collection. My only exception to this unwritten rule is when my main focus is to shoot a portrait of the guy, in which case, I will only request that they be shirtless.
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