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Welcome to the Asian Male Project website by me, Norm Yip. The images that you see here are a collection of photographs gathered over many years. In 1999 when I embarked on photographing the male nude. I have explored and photographed a variety of different styles and photography trends. I have honed my vision and aesthetics to an even tighter in composition and form. My interpretation of what I deem beautiful and intriguing to my senses are sure. I still delight in light and shadow, using the body and face as a tool for capturing a vision that is bare of non-essentials. I have very few props in my work and have very little interest in shooting popular or trendy images. Unfortunately, social media has banned and censored by work many times, rendering my work to disseminate my artwork to the wider public. So you might ask ‘Why Asians and not others?” I only choose to idolize the Asian male because I am Asian, and there was very little material in the media that gave Asian male nudes a spotlight. Herb Ritts’ superb monograph Kazu was an exception. I owe much to him and also the work of seminal work by Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work I also admire. He pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable within the context of North American gay life. I have my work here in Hong Kong and Asia, but from the perspective of a very personal view, one that is partly introverted and partly egotistical.