This week I've been packing to move house and over the weekend I decided it was time to get rid of a LOT of DVD's that I've been moving from house to house for too long. In the process I decided to keep a handful of DVD's. Kylie Minogue concert DVD's and, the Harry Potter box set and. I also came across a bunch of DVD's that I forgot I had. The French Rugby or Dieux Du Stade calendar behind the scenes DVD's. They have definitely been kept.
I have about ten of them from the one that made a splash in the media when the calendar was first shot by Francois Rousseau in 2004 til about a decade later. I think they made a few more after I stopped buying them but I couldn't find them.
When that first DVD was released in 2004 I had only just taken up photography that year and I had only been out as a gay man for 5 years so to say it was a heady mix of different kinds of inspiration is an understatement. The men were actually all quite varied in their look and physiques but they were all very sexy.
I have the hard cover book released of two of the years as well and my god the imagery is beautiful. The memories are fond.