BOY BROTHER FRIEND 5 - DIGITAL COVER

Issue 5, Winter 2022

Theme: Ceremony

Issue 5 explores the theme of Ceremony, which unfolds over four chapters: A Quiet Storm’, ‘Give Me The Sweetest Taboo’, ‘No Pain, No Gain’ and ‘Fear of Missing Out’. Featuring Rowan Papier, Jermaine Francis, David Uzochukwu and more.

Inspiration has a funny way of turning up unexpectedly. The selection of the colourful and exuberant annual Ye-Yee-Ye festival in Jamestown, Accra, Ghana hap-pened in the most surprising of manners. Photographer James Tennessee Briandt approached me with a series of photo-graphs, with intentions of earning a chance to oversee a Boy.Brother.Friend shoot, unbeknownst to him, the shoot had already happened, and the results were in his possession, being presented to me in the portfolio. The tenacity in the midst of the darting, and presumably judgemental eyes of onlookers on the streets was captured very boldly in these photographs. The boldness and simultaneously carefree nature of the male crossdressers at this local event were cap-tured too vividly for this to be nothing more than a part of a proposal. In many ways, this featured cover is a toast to the power of boldness, from James, and from the men on the streets of Jamestown, Accra, who flaunt their freedom of expression even in the direct gaze of a society that often seeks to stifle such expression.

PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES TENNESSEE BRANDT
Ye-Yee-Ye Parade 1, Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, 2021-2022

Pages: 370

Contributors:

Affa Osman
Aheem Sosa
Andrew Durbin
Bari Khalique
Benjamin Huseby
Billy Lobos
Cameron Ugbodu
Chloe Rosolek
Duran Lantink,
Edem Dossou
Hendrik Schneider
James Tennessee Briandt
Jebi Labembika
Jermaine Francis
Kahlil Robert Irving
Karl Felix
KO___OL
Kwabena Sekyi Appiah-nti
Kwaku Konadu
Laurent Philippon
Luis Alberto Rodriguez
Madeline Ostile
Marc Asekhame
Matthieu Blazy
Mischa Notcutt
Monika Trang Le
Mumi Haiati
Obongjayar
Razak Salifou
Rowan Papier
Ryo Narushima
Serhat Isik
Stephane Gaboue
Till Janz
Toby Grimditch
Tomi Roppongi
Vanessa Peterson
William Ndatira
Winter Van Den Brink
Wolfgang Tillmans
Yasser Abubeker
Zhong Lin,
+Many More

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With love,
BBF Team