Michael Stokes Bare Strength 2016 Calendar - New & Sealed - Male Model Photos
Please note that this is the collectible 2016 calendar, not the current year!
Raised in Berkeley, California, Michael Stokes is now a Los Angeles–based photographer. At age fifteen, Michael dropped out of high school but eventually resumed his education by enrolling in college, graduating first in his class and Phi Beta Kappa with a Fine Art degree from the film department at Cal State University, Long Beach. Before changing his career path to filmmaking, he was a photography major, learning pre-digital photographic techniques, using darkrooms and silver gelatin film. In film school, he wrote and directed a short film, Alien, which was picked up and shown by film festivals around the world.
Michael is known for glamour-styled photos of male fitness models and wounded veterans of war. To date he has published seven coffee table books, all monograms with the exception of one book, My Buddy, a collaboration with the publisher Taschen, featuring his collection of vintage photos of nude WWI and WWII soldiers.