Champion Studios was a prominent producer of male physique photography in the 1960s, a time when images of the male form straddled the line between athletic admiration and underground erotica. Champion Studios captured young men in suggestive yet artistic poses, often wearing nothing more than a tight jockstrap or a knowing smirk. In an era when homosexuality was still criminalized in many places, these photographs provided a coded form of desire and representation, offering gay men a glimpse of themselves in a world that sought to keep them hidden.
