NEW YORK CITY—CockyBoys owner Jake Jaxson and lensman RJ Sebastian have announced that their third fine art photography book, Summer Boys, is now available at book stores worldwide, on Amazon, at TLAgay, and at JakeJaxson.com for autographed copies. Published by Salzgeber/Bruno Books in association with CockyBoys Ink, the studio's book imprint, Summer Boys features gay porn star Blake Mitchell as its cover model. He serves to kick off a book whose contents consist of many layers of emotion: joy and melancholy; strength and vulnerability; love and lust; longing and freedom. The images in Summer Boys are meant to evoke all of the above emotions along with a sense of carefree bliss that the studio embodies and has long promoted in its work.
Jaxson said of the new book, "Since taking over and reinventing CockyBoys in 2010, our work has resonated with our private lives, and our lives have found expression in our work. This has given us the opportunity to grow both professionally and personally with every new challenge, with every new project, and with every new performer.
"We choose the 'Summer Boys' theme because it’s when 'Camp CockyBoys' is in full swing, and let’s be honest: it’s the best time of year to take off our clothes, feel the sun, and live life to the fullest. I could not be more proud of RJ’s work and progression as one of the leading erotic photographers working today, and I could not be happier with how his photos jump off the page of this beautiful book."
"Even after ten years, I struggle with the darkness and cold seasons in New York," reflected Sebastian. "I miss the sunlight, the long warm days and the energy they set free. Every time we travel to LA in winter for work or for play, our arrival there is like a sigh of relief. The 'summer boy' within me comes back to life."
"It is this special, lustful energy that we tried to capture and celebrate in the pictures of this book," he added. "Shot partly in the woods which surround our house in New York State and partly by the piers and beaches of Malibu, there is a touch of both worlds in this project; the everlasting summer in Southern California and the transitory summers on the Northern East Coast. But these two places only set the scene for the essence of what CockyBoys stands for: our performers, our friends, our companions, our summer boys. We chose almost 30 of them (and a cute dog) to be part of this project, forming couples who tell their own little stories of physical and spiritual rapprochement."
Sebastian's photographs for this project are meant to express the freedom, joy and inner peace that sometimes only summertime can give us. CockyBoys claims that if the reader really pays attention, he or she can feel the tender warmth of a summer wind as they turn the pages. If this book awakens the "summer boy" within readers, no matter what the season or in what part of the world, they will feel their mission is accomplished: Endless summer for everybody.
To obtain a signed copy of Summer Boys, email JakeJaxson.com.
