meeting at an interview

 

 

The future partners met in the late 90s when Gert interviewed Jop about Re-Magazine. By that time, Gert had worked for Nieuwe Revu magazine, had been a culture critic for left-leaning Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and eventually became the editor-in-chief of Dutch cultural and lifestyle magazine Blvd. Jonkers ended up hiring van Bennekom as an art director for Blvd.

 

 

 

one of the things that jop and i don’t like is this concept of lifestyle. from the beginning, we’ve tried to do the opposite and be mesmerized by people, not by things. —gert jonkers

 

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 13, spring & winter 2016. Kirsten

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 13, spring & winter 2016.

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 25, summer 2008–2009

no muscles. no tattoos

 

At the beginning of the 2001, the duo started to make BUTT, a pocket-sized gay zine. Their aim was to sweep aside the mainstream clichés with something more authentic and raw. None of the feature portraits was a studio shot; the pictures showed real people in their own environments. By bringing a sense of real life to their work, BUTT shook up the world of queer publishing and became a must-read for indie-minded gay men. Though BUTT’s iconic pink pages are no longer in print‚ it is living quite the afterlife in books and online.

 

 

 

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 26, summer 2009
Cover of Butt magazine, issue 21, autumn & winter 2007
Cover of Butt magazine, issue 22, spring 2006

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 22, spring 2006.

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 25, summer 2008–2009.

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 21, autumn & winter 2007.

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 26, summer 2009.

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 10, summer 2004.

 

Cover of Butt magazine, issue 10, summer 2004