Toyin Ibidapo: The Cult of Boys Hardcover – 15 Sept. 2011

Pretty photographs of attractive Androgynous Twink - Ish boys all of age Btw Shots are professionally taken and capture the youth and Curiosity of the all the legal teens as featured. good book if your into that sort of thing. ❤️❤️

I am a huge fan of Toyin Ibidapo and I find this book a masterpiece. It's all about beautiful, delicate, a bit androgynous, sensual youth. I totally recommend it to everyone who loves long haired boys.

Just not what I expected. Only basically one type of 'boy' pictured - usually in seedy bedsit surroundings. Too limited.

Amazing publication!

There can't be many people who can claim to have had an assignment with Ben Whishaw in their bedroom. But Toyin Ibidapo is one - and, what's more, she even got him to sign her wall for her.Ms Ibidapo, a photographer and film-maker of no mean talent, mentions the encounter in "Cult of Boys", a 200-page coffee table book of photographs of teenage boys (and a few girls) which she's compiled, in scrapbook style, since 1999. All manner of youths are here - long-haired, short-haired, gay, straight, bi, waifs, strays, languid, louche, happy, laughing, wistful, scowling, crying. They're shirtless, in jeans, shorts, boxers, briefs, thongs and even fishnet stockings.The photographs are of terrific quality, and all have a striking sense of realism about them. Many are taken in the photographer's bedroom in London (hence Mr Whishaw's appearance); others elsewhere. There are even a few outside shots. The portraits range from full-length to tight close-up; some have been processed so that they have the quality of a wall mural or fresco, and most are accompanied by Ms Ibidapo's short commentary in scrawly handwriting.It'd be fair to say that all the models are of a certain type - they're skinny (not a gram of spare flesh between them), white, and for the most part androgynous. And by the way, you won't find any porn here - it isn't that kind of photographic project. So, no porn - but eroticism by the bucketful.