Men.
This project explores the uncertainty I feel in defining my own masculinity.
I am constantly surrounded by both sides of the spectrum: the traditional, working-class masculinity of my upbringing — rooted in manual labour, physical strength, and endurance — and the more expressive, progressive version embodied by my peers and friends.
Through portraits of the men I live among and the objects that fill their everyday spaces, I examine how each of them presents himself as a man, and what “being a man” means to them.
The work sits in that unresolved, messy space between the two influences — chaotic, contradictory, and still forming.
Dylan Flanagan
2026
