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Joey by Jack Saul
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
A Croydon Crush
'Like, honestly… I'm having a proper full-on gay crisis.'
Like honestly, I finally started Heartstopper, and realizing there's only three seasons has put me into my own proper gay crisis! It did inspire me however, to spend some time getting to know Charlie and Nick. I've already posted some of my favorite shots of Charlie, (Joe Locke), so it was time to do the same thing for Nick (Kit Connor). Check out more on the NEXT PAGE HERE:
The London Eye:
'The Eye is one of London's most Instagrammable places.'
In addition to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and The Tower of London, the city's London Eye is one of the cities most famous sites. To tourists anyway, I'm sure like most of us, we can grown immune to our own cities beauty over time. I'm sure I first spotted the famous Ferris wheel in a movie, and still get a hit of excitement when I see it pop up in films and on television.
I loved this series of images, not just because of the hot guy, but because of the cmnm/cfnm elements to the images. I'm guessing he was a rider in one of London's World Naked Bike Rides, and loved that he stopped, and seemed so comfortable posing with the clothed Londoners and tourists crossing over the Westminster bridge.
A Birmingham Knight
When I was looking for a UK born actor to spotlight today the choices were endless! I've crushed over, and enjoyed so many English actors and projects over the year. Every couple of years there seems to be a new crop of young actors to follow and admire. Currently, I'm watching UK based shows and movies starring Louis Partridge, Leo Woodall, Ben Barnes and of course everything Jonathan Bailey related.
Instead of going for the obvious, or maybe more accurately, the well-known, I went with an actor I'm guessing you do know, but maybe don't realize it. Elliot Knight was born in Birmingham, close to a three hour drive from London. He got his start professionally in 2012 playing the lead in the UK series Sinbad.
Although Knight got his start on British television, I, and many of you, got our first look with Knight's appearances on American shows. Some of you may remember seeing Knight on shows including: Once Upon A Time, American Gothic, The Boys and How to Get Away with Murder.
I think I first saw Knight rolling around in bed with Michaela, (Aja Naomi King) in two episodes of How to Get Away with Murder. I really started to fanboy however, after seeing his nude scene, and his memorable tattoo in a season 3 episode of Hacks. This time, Knight was playing Davide, but yet again, Knight was rolling around in bed, this time with Marcus. (Carl Clemons-Hopkins) Unfortunately, after Marcus spots the Deborah Vance tattoo on Davide's beautiful ass, things take a turn. Thanks to xyzpdq for the video clip!
Flexed: Joey by Jack Saul Photography
'I guess the big advantage with shooting in London is the multi-cultural aspect, giving a choice of models from literally all around the world.'
Without a home studio, photographer Jack Saul is often on the road, traveling to shoot. Thus far however, he's only shot in London and surrounding areas. It's not that he' hasn't tried though. On a recent trip to the Netherlands, finding locations made shooting difficult, but Jack did connect with several models, building contacts for future trips to the area.
As for shooting in London, Jack shares that from his experience, finding models goes through phases sometimes. Sometimes it's easier to find models than at other times due to a variety of circumstances. When it came to shooting Joey, Jack had a little help from a friend, one of Joey's friends. Joey is a good friend of Robbie, a model whose work with Jack, I've previously featured on the site. (HERE:) Joey sort of fell into modeling after a sports injury and he and Robbie had worked together before.
As tight and toned as Joey's incredible physique certainly is, as often happens, it was his face that initially drew me to his images and to reach out to Jack. It's a handsome and beautiful face for sure, but Joey also expresses an almost melancholy vibe through his expressive brown eyes. There is something incredibly captivating and charming to me, about Joey's seemingly serious facial expressions along with his incredibly hot body. Jack shares that Joey certainly wasn't sad or melancholy during there shoot.
'Joey's a naturally reserved character but he really warmed up once we got going, and really got to know each other.'
One of the things I noticed, and one of the things that made me smile, was Joey's 'go to pose'. Not sure if you've noticed yet, but Jack often captured Joey flexing. It's not surprising given how toned his arms are, but it's a pose I know many of us remember well. Even if we didn't do it ourselves, (and I did) there is always someone in every friend group who flexes in every photo.
Sometimes frequent flexing is a habit, sometimes it's nerves. Other times, like with Joey, it comes from being asked to flex by photographers for all the promotional photos taken during his time athlete. I didn't ask Jack about Joey's sexuality, nor do I care, but it seems to be something straight guys sometimes do when a camera comes out. I know my little brother took the flex pose each and every time anyone started taking pictures, it was almost automatic, when a camera came out, the arms instinctively went up.
It's rather endearing really, my little brother did when he was a little kid, and still does it today. Maybe it's because of my brother, but I found it sort of sweet and endearing with Joey as well. I didn't initially make the connection, but realized when I narrowed down the images for this piece. Although Jack took hundreds of great images of Joey not flexing, I kept coming back, and eventually choosing, so many with him with the flex pose.
I think my favorite shot from Jack's work with Joey is the image below. I'm not sure if this was at the beginning, or near the end of the shoot, but Joey looks so relaxed with his eyes closed on the bed. He also looks incredibly hot! I love the pose and mood Jack set and I also really loved the visual contrast of the more serious, or reserved side of Joey I described above, and the softer, warmer side the image displays.
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