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What was your approach to capturing it, conveying that sheen and texture and making it look tactile? I was basically a college dropout and was coasting through life. One of your subjects talked about taking on a kind of alter ego when they put on their leathers.

The leather itself looks beautiful in your images. So I started doing a series of portraits. A lot of positive things and feelings came out of it for me. You can be an out gay person and go to a straight bar, but as a leatherman you really need to have a specific environment to go to in order to feel safe and to express yourself.

James Kleinmann, The Queer Review: before we get onto this specific project, can you give me an insight into how you first got into photography and what made you want to follow it as a career? It was amazing to see this band of brothers come together to dress Mike up.

Celebrity and fashion photographer Mike Ruiz, whose career spans over 30 years, has turned his lens to an ongoing portrait series focusing on the beauty and diversity of the leather community. I struggled with with an internal conflict regarding what I was drawn to sexually, but denied myself.

That aesthetic has always been titillating to me, but the kink and fetish aspect of it scared me. Welcome 👏 Please Follow, Like, Comment and Share.

Through meeting and bonding with leathermen during open call sessions, photographing them and collecting their personal stories, Ruiz has been inspired by their spirit of liberation and empowerment, enabling him to work through some of his own hang-ups about sex.

With far fewer places to go out in leather, how conscious were you of helping to bring community members together with this project? I had a lot of toxic shame surrounding being gay that spilled over into my sex life. I reconciled a lot of things in my mind. So I wanted to take a different approach, and to have it be less overtly sexualized and more about the people and their journeys and experiences than their proclivities.

I was meditating and being very introspective about how I wanted to come out of the pandemic. Which is ridiculous in hindsight, but I really grappled with that for a long time. Feeling seen, understood and appreciated by a community is a gift I never knew I needed.

I hope that the project offers an insight into the leather community and gives it some humanity that it may have been lacking, because a lot of the photography surrounding the leather community is related to fetish and is dark and impersonal.

I was brought up to think that it was an indication of a damaged psyche, so I was afraid of it but drawn to it at the same time. Happy Visits 🥰. Fortunately, I was given a camera as a gift when I turned 28 and then I became completely consumed by photography.

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The first time I wore leather, it was empowering, it was life changing, it was forceful. What was once a shameful secret is now a celebrated badge of honor. These stunning images celebrate the continuing history of the leather community in all its glory, aiming to help keep its traditions alive for future generations.

When you put on that leather something happens. I felt it myself too, I felt something empowering wash over me.