Photographing the queer leather community of today:
; a powerful, celebratory and earnest collection of portraits and interviews of thecommunity. “I was immediately seduced by the smell and the soft, supple, lived-in creases and folds. Moreover, I became obsessed with imagining its life before I liberated it from its cardboard limbo.
“I trace my history with this project. At some point, I realised that I was carving out a place for myself by the skin of my teeth,” Steven admits. “Finding this world got me on the track that I needed to be on in life. So it seems like a survival vehicle for me.” Finding his artistic path was not a straightforward process. During his time studying photography, he focused his creative exploration on mid-century Americana,