(Photo Credits: Screengrab from @tilotta_photo on Instagram)
“Attractive comes in all shades, sizes, shapes, and ethnicities. Simply put ‘As Is.'” – Steven Tilotta
A photographer from Houston named Steven Tilotta has recently released a photo book of his work from 2014 up to this year, showcasing men of all sizes.
The book, titled As Is: Portraits 2014-2020, aims to promote body positivity through photography and motivational messages. It has 212 pages and it contains notes and positive quotes from Steven Tilotta himself as well as other people; purchase the coffee table book here for $80.
Tilotta explained that with his work, he wants to start a revolution where we can begin to heal and learn to accept ourselves ‘As Is.’ He said in a statement:
It is a long journey, but I hope that we can begin to love ourselves. I chose guys for As Is that are not the images that have been force-fed to us of what male attractiveness, beauty, and masculinity is. It is a journey to accepting ourselves ‘as is’.
According to Tilotta, he decided to trade his paintbrush for a camera in 2013, nearly 20 years after being told by one of his professors in college that he would never be good at photography because he questioned the rules. “When it comes to the arts I don’t believe in rules, imagine if Picasso had played by the rules.”
Further, Tilotta shared that he looks up to Annie Leibovitz and Herb Ritts and that his work is heavily influenced by them, and cinematic color grading. “I love shadows I like to show a darker side because I believe everyone has one. It is what we choose to do with it keep it surpassed or show it to the world.”
To learn more about As Is, you can check out Steven Tilotta’s official website here. You can also follow him on Instagram; don’t forget to follow Adam4Adam’s official Instagram account while you’re at it, guys!
Indeed…
Beauty is in the “Eye Of The Beholder?”
As is Ugliness, in the “Eye Of The Beholder.” One negates the other…so a Null is reached.
Utopianism is in “The Mind Of The Mislead and The Disallusionists.”
Is the point of the book and its pictures…to disqualify Human’ perceptions of Beauty & Ugliness… as plentiful as those who exist?
Equality does not translate into a multiplication of snapysis, enlargement of the Retinas and engorgement of the penis, vagina or increasement in the production of saliva… .
There’s a reason Botticelli’s cherubic women were considered beautiful 500 years before ultimately fit women were… only the rich could afford food, and only women with meat on their bones reached menarche, so fertile women were ‘bigger’. Beauty’s eye IS in the beholder, but culture and custom DO play a part. Just as many gay men suffer real mental and physical abuse; then show themselves in a calendar au naturel so a pompous jerk (see other comments) will make it clear ‘that guy doesn’t meet my standard!’ but not to worry, the levels of bigotry and unkindness in THIS community… Read more »
Rantrap! As you Rant, Rant, Rant… I was being realistic about tjhe likelihood of the average gay man to find most of the pictured males attractive…unless, Legally Blind? I understand “Political Correctness” and “Revisionalism” but this is a sex-site and as such… 99% of those male pictured would be equivalate as “anthesis” and “anathema” to the Gay Community, “En Masse” would find attractive? Personally, I paid the pic and its individuals no mind as I am on this sex-site to meet, greet combine, intertwine, and become one…on top of my matress. Expressing “The Milk Of Human Kindness” is not the… Read more »
Isn’t this how most gay guys look? Of course! And the great news is they already accept each other for who they are, not what they look like. Now, if we can just work on the “pretty” ones who dismiss people based on whether they, too, are “pretty.”
These guys look like my play friends and myself! Suddenly it’s cool to be kind of gay guy most of us know!
I’d like to think we are all beautiful in our own ways, making us uniquely individual in our own ways.I really get floored when guys look solely at eye candy. I can stretch a hole like no tomorrow as I pound out my seed, but my options are always few and far between since most here on A4A only want the young perfect hard bodies. Older heavier guys are the best for guys willing to look past another mans age and waist measurements. The photos for this blog are wonderful, they should hopefully instill in each of us that we… Read more »
Anyone going to point out the elephant in the room? ..and no, this isn’t a fat joke.
beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. That photographer as great eyes.
The majority; real gay men, not the idea of what gay are physically. Like these high-fashion models; they don’t even really look what we see; all the make-up, airbrushing, self-starvation, colonics, etc., yeah, I like this!
What a wonderful set of pictures and the men in them. I prefer all men and enjoy being with them. This is so refreshing and I have been openly gay for all of my 80 years. Love this!
We have to try and see beyond the physical, has to be something within . . . and the eyes have that, as they are the windows to the soul.