West Phillips

Bangkok: Aum

Added 2024-12-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC

Twenty-eight year old Aum and I connected a few months ago via Instagram. Like a lot of these Thai muscle boy types, he's an 'influencer' with a substantial following and a great physique - a winning recipe in the world of Instagram these days.

I had just left Cambodia and spent a week in Bangkok before flying home to the states (which is where I am as I write this). Due to being so back-logged with editing from the past year's many travels and shoots and also annoyed with the difficulty of my past model scouting in Bangkok, I didn't really care if I did a shoot or not. Well, I ended up shooting one of my previous guys again, who was tried, tested and trusted and has become a good friend since our first shoot earlier this year. In addition to him, I set up this shoot with Aum, but was prepared if he did the usual Bangkok thing and just ghosted or flaked. He did neither (though he was about 2 hours late 😂) and we had a great shoot. Out of ideas and lacking energy to desire to find a new spot, I decided to revisit an abandoned location I used on a previous trip, which worked out perfectly.

This series is a jock series, which he really wanted to do and therefor had an abundance of clothing options. He loves basketball and baseball, so the clothes were his and are an accurate reflection of him and his style. As you can probably assume, there's other series of shots with him wearing much, much less. Obviously :)

Thailand, Oct 2024