Lost Boys

(Hardback)

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A compelling collection of Mogutin's portraits and landscapes taken over the last 10 years. Although he was exiled from Russia for his outspoken gay writing, his images caused as much controversy. Provocative yet iconoclastic, his work transcends the conventions of male nude photography, confronting the viewer with a raw style and new sensibility. A cross between porn and fashion, pop culture and marginal kink, Lost Boys is a poetic and sometimes raunchy journey into differing obsessions and fetishes of the cosmopolitan urban youth culture.

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"Watch out world: here comes Slava." - i-D "Slava's method is to subvert identity, pushing the reader into normally unconsidered modes of thought." - Index "Since arriving in the West, Mogutin has continued to play the role of the sexual provocateur, starring in the film Skin Gang by director Bruce LaBruce and establishing himself as a photographer of stylised images of uninhibited young men." - Time Out New York"

Author Bio

Slava Mogutin has received both critical acclaim and official condemnation for his outspoken writing. Chased out of his country at the age of 21, he was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International and American PEN. His photography has been exhibited internationally and featured in such diverse publications as i-D, Honcho, Visionaire, Bound & Gagged and BlackBook.