NOTE: Book contains male nude imagery.



ERIC GLENN

I first met Eric at a Pride Party in Seattle in the summer of 2010. He mentioned to me that he had written to me a few years prior to that day, when he was still in the service. He said that he had inquired about me photographing him. To be honest, I didn’t remember that conversation. I do know that if I had seen a photo of his face, I would have been all over him to do the shoot. Turns out that he subsequently got out of the service, settled in north of Seattle and we lost contact. Till that sunny day that we met. He was hanging with some mutual friends, the intro was made and we set up a time for our first shoot.



I saw a book once where the photographers were asked to show images and tell a little bit about their “muse”. This is the model with which taking a bad photo is nearly impossible. There's such a connection between the photographer and the model that the most casual observer can see it and understand it. Usually one can see it in the model's eyes… which seem to open to his soul. And there is a sense of trust between the model and the photographer as the model lets down his guard and “lets the photographer in” to see who the model really is. And in the process, the photographer is able to draw out the very best from the model. That's Eric and that's why I've taken so many images of him.



He is the ideal man- my muse. He’s the kind of man that you can’t forget- that smile and that amazing connection just keeps coming back to haunt me.



Jim Wilkinson/Seattle