The EveryMAN Project celebrated their first-year anniversary by creating their own underwear campaign showcasing an inclusive cast of 12 men across various body types and ethnicities.
Inspired by Solange Knowles’s music video for “Cranes in the Sky” and the work of photographer Carlota Guerrero, the intention on camera and behind the camera was one to celebrate unity, brotherhood & embracing vulnerability. The shoot even pays homage to Dua Lipa’s “New Rules” music video.
“We created a visually engaging underwear campaign that truly encourages men to love and celebrate themselves as they are,” says EveryMAN Project founder & photographer, Tarik Carroll. “This shoot is a celebration of beauty, diversity, inclusion & self love. With each shoot our goal at EveryMAN is to continuously challenge industry constructs & ideals on male beauty as well as dispelling toxic masculinity.”
Carroll founded The EveryMAN Project following an “April Fool’s Joke” underwear campaign by American Eagle. In April 2016, the brand created an underwear editorial featuring men with a variety of body types, and then claimed it as simply a hoax.
In a society where people who are plus size or just have a body type that’s not deemed conventionally attractive by mainstream fashion or media brands, this underwear shoot is a bold and empowering statement on where we are shifting as a culture.
Photography/Creative Direction: Tarik Carroll
Styling: Mark Anglin
Makeup: Jarrett Brandon & Spanky Aguirre
Photo Assistants: Beth Hicks
Videography: John Dargan
Jewelry: Charant Gold
Gold Cape: Charant Gold,
Underwear: Model’s Own & Parke and Ronen
Robes: Model’s Own
Models:
Louis Merino
Tevin Evans
Marquis Neal
Jordan Evangelista
Christopher Cespedes
Alex Frankel
Laquan
Daquan Studwood
Giorgio Alexander
Lamar Shambley
Ben Bartels
Alex Cheser