The Boy is Beautiful 5 Martin Herbert is a writer

Martin Herbert is a writer and critic living in Berlin

Using large-format cameras and experimental darkroom techniques

feeling the ground for something lost

Wrappers and slipcase a little rubbed and aged

teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair

The Boy is Beautiful 5 Martin Herbert is a writerThe Boy Is Beautiful returns for its fifth and most mouthwatering issue yet. Heterotopias journeys through the queer spaces we build to survive, seduce, worship, disappear, and become. Bursting at the seams across a whopping 228 pages, the volume drifts through orgiastic rituals, architectural fantasies, nudist beaches, activist networks, dark rooms, drag stages, poetry, cruising grounds, cyberspace and sun struck islands. Inside, our cover