Drew Pettifer - Some Want Quietly Self Publish Be Happy working with the likes of

working with the likes of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen

Published by the brilliant Libraryman (Stockholm) in an extremely limited edition

it was a shared can-do business credo that really mattered

a superficial analysis of the normalisation of gayness

and not especially commercial

Drew Pettifer - Some Want Quietly Self Publish Be Happy working with the likes ofThis limited edition publication is the outcome of a residency Drew Pettifer completed over two months in Tokyo in mid 2014. Through these photographs Pettifer examines different codes of masculinity and gender that exist in contemporary Japanese society in relation to young Japanese men. These straight and queer subjects became friends with the artist through extended visits to the artists studio during his residency. The final 34 images were