Who we are
Lusted Men is an open and fluid collective with almost ten members already.
At the beginning, we met because we had the idea of taking pictures of guys: we didn’t see enough of them, and we wanted to see more.
Now we are a dozen people to animate the project with, at the center of our activities, the constitution of a collection of erotic pictures of men.
We also noticed that the group, for the moment, is mainly made up of people we already knew, or close relatives. In a certain sense, this is normal, except that we have all done higher studies of art or sociology in France or in Belgium, and we would like to open the group to other people, further away from us, with other backgrounds, other stories, other desires.
We would like to be able to transform the project and reach society in general. But for the moment we don’t know exactly how to do it, so we continue to spread our ideas, our project.
Whether you come from near or far, if you want to chat with us, participate, or whatever, let us know.
via Instagram account: @lustedmen
or by email: lustedmen@nullhotmail.com
Also, at the moment, we are looking for someone who would like to participate in social media communication with us.
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Flora Bleibt
Her passion for images led her to practice and experiment with different production methods (from professional broadcast conditions to the most alternative in the network of artisanal experimental cinema laboratories). Today, thanks to the questions posed by queer feminists, she is more interested in the social and emotional impact of images on our lives, and ways of reappropriation and possible emancipation.
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Lucie Brugier
Following studies in sociology and Political Science Lucie Brugier turned to the Cultural field. She was responsible for the communication of a multidisciplinary establishment of La Mairie de Paris for 7 years and got involved in the associative field. DJ, crazy lotto performer (Nuits Sonores, Recyclerie, Hasard Ludique), host on Radio Campus, volunteer for literacy classes and recently, at the origin of feminist linocut workshops and other initiation moments to creation.
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Salomé Burstein
Salomé Burstein is a young researcher and independent curator. After joining the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, she obtained a Master in Arts and Languages at EHESS in Paris. It is in this context that she carried out research on the issue of boredom in contemporary visual culture. At the crossroads of political philosophy, art history and visual studies, the result was published by Ness Books under the title De l’ennui au spectacle (2019). In addition to her university career, Salomé worked in several cultural structures and institutions. In particular, she was responsible for a scholarship program within the curatorial platform Council and co-founded the multidisciplinary festival Feÿ Arts (in Burgundy) in 2018.
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Laura Lafon
After studying gender and the sociology of cultural practices in Toulouse, Laura Lafon moved to Brussels to study photography at ESA le 75. Her work is documentary fiction in the form of a book that questions self-representation, the other, and the upheavals provoked by the meeting of cultures in particular. Photography must be able to create new representations of the world rather than portray reality with cynicism. Her work has been exhibited at Botanique, Jacques Franck, Maison Pelgrims, 44 Gallery, FoMu d’Anvers, Unseen Amsterdam, Mois de la photo off Paris, Biennale 50 ° Nord, Palermo and Montpellier.
In 2016 she co-founded Concept Editing Design, a creative studio, to support artists, institutions and brands in their desire for books. She works as an iconographer in the press and publishing, notably in the feminist magazine Causette and Gaze.
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Morgane Tocco
Student in Anthropology at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris), Morgane Tocco is interested in representations of masculinity in the contemporary context. After having supported a research dissertation questioning the relationship between virility and care of physical appearance in young Parisian men, she is preparing a thesis which is interested in the eroticization of the male body by women.