Or does Doug have some photos of blokes as well? In which case, everything is fine.
A few.
When I started this series it was an entirely aesthetic endeavor: the body is a thing of beauty. Accordingly the shoots often included male models, especially ones with athletic or body-builder physiques. I'm straight, but find something inherently visually interesting about the sharp edges and curves of a body-builder (of either gender).
Then my wife started working with me on the series and her eye for poses and for working with the models and engaging more of a two-way dialogue and collaborative-with-the-models process. That really changed the nature of the work. Models started reacting emotionally to seeing the resulting images, and sharing their struggles with maintaining a positive self-image and finding some very small improvement or at least inspiration to revise that self-image by participating in the series. That reaction was nearly exclusive to the female participants and really resonated with my wife and I. As a result we've used fewer and fewer men, but a wider swath of women.
We may return to male models at some point, but for now the gender of the models is tied up in the message of the art.
