My great friend Joslin van Arsdale was Head of Photographs at Paddle8 and I kept telling her that she should have a queer photography auction, since every time she had any male nude photographs in her sales, they immediately sold (or were bought by me!). Eventually, she just turned around and said, you do it, and Boys! Boys! Boys! was born. Our first Boys! Boys! Boys! auction launched in 2018 and it was such a success that we have since had five more auctions; three exhibitions – in London (at h Club), Amsterdam (at The Ravestijn Gallery) and Cologne (at Galerie Biesenbach); launched an online store; and self-published a book with the new one out now.
Sadly our partnership with Paddle8 has come to an end as they have filed for bankruptcy. So I am currently building a new online platform for Boys! Boys! Boys! to coincide with the publication of the new book. It will become the home of queer and gay photography.

We self-published our first Boys! Boys! Boys! book in 2018, which sold out. I was therefore very keen to find a publisher for a more extensive and more widely distributed book. Luckily, I met boutique Dutch publishing company Mendo, who design beautiful books but also have a partnership with teNeues, so our book will be distributed worldwide.

The aim of the books is to promote our amazing photographers and their artworks. The first book was self-published with only two hundred copies. The print run for the new book is five thousand copies, so a big difference. I am hoping this is the start of a whole series of Boys! books, each one publishing new artworks from our growing family of photographers.

I currently work with more than fifty queer and gay photographers from over twenty countries, which keeps growing. My job as a curator and gallerist is to find and work with those photographers that are producing images that can be defined and promoted as fine art photography. I am trying to build a platform for queer and gay photographers to present, exhibit and sell their work as art. It is of course completely subjective and sometimes very difficult, but I have built up a roster of extraordinarily talented photo-artists whose work I am proud to represent.

I am definitely not conservative! However, I am very careful that Boys! Boys! Boys! does not go down the route of soft porn or titillation but is strictly about promoting fine art photography. I do completely agree with GaHee, as I also have Girls! Girls! Girls!, which celebrates the female form. The media have no problem publishing and printings these images whereas we get very little press for Boys! Boys! Boys! as they label the images as inappropriate. And don’t get me started on social media! We will continue to challenge these preconceptions by pushing and promoting Boys! Boys! Boys! and creating a strong market for queer and gay photography. The response so far has been amazing.

We had a whole line up of exhibitions planned in Oslo (Norway) with Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Fotografiska in New York (USA), and in Berlin (Germany) with Galerie Biesenbach, and future plans in Sydney (Australia) with Lyons Gallery. As of this moment, only Oslo has been rescheduled (from April to September). You’ll have to check our website for more information on the others.
We are also launching a new online site, which will become the home of queer and gay photography, selling artworks and books, feature films by our artists, and have all the latest news on our growing family of amazing artists.