The Photography of Rick Castro. Limited edition monograph features over 100 images– primarily male nudes– most in bondage or in a fetishized context.

Those familiar with Castro’s evocative erotic images can attest to their celebration of the whimsical, passionate and essentially fluid nature of desire.

Street hustlers from Los Angeles’ famed Santa Monica Boulevard, intricately bound with leather and rope, and being the primary subjects of Castro’s lens since the early 90s, populate a good part of this volume. Castro has taken these “unsung, decadent idols” from the street and portrayed them to reflect his vision—an aesthetic, cultural and social journey through a “road-less-travelled” in contemporary sexual culture. Castro’s images not only challenge, but offers a gaze that celebrates all kinds of sensuality.

“Castro’s work has… the feeling of something just out of reach. Men love what they can’t have.”
– Clint Catalyst, Instinct Magazine, March, 2004

“Rick Castro’s extraordinary photographs give us a welcome taste of the forbidden. . . Most of all, it is very sexy.”
– Clive Barker, Artist, Writer

“The juxtaposition in Castro’s photographs of fantastic sufferings, pleasure and nature invite reflection on the realms spirit, life, death.” – Fiesta Carrera, Author