Elska Istanbul Turkey

Elska is a bi-monthly “bookazine” celebrating the everyday lives of gay and queer men around the globe through intimate photography and personal storytelling. 

Elska Magazine is not from one specific location, but instead is a project that travels to different cities to capture the lives of local queer men. Each issue is set in a different city, offering an honest, tender, and deeply human look at local queer communities.

This issue was made in Istanbul, Turkey. This is that famous city that straddles two continents; that infamous city that sees its steadfast liberal spirit battling against its growing conservative contingent to hold on to its ‘Europeanness'. Certainly many of the people we met here referred to Istanbul as the gayest city in the Muslim world, yet some of these same people expressed fear that things were changing… to their detriment.

180 pages
Softcover
Size 24cm x 18cm