Tarik Carroll is a fashion, music,
and commercial photographer
from Brooklyn who uses his work to
embrace body diversity and break down
barriers imposed by toxic masculinity.
Tarik is the founder of the EveryMAN
Project, which aims to confront the status
quo with an ongoing fashion photo
series about the relationships men have
with body image. The project highlights
cis and trans men of all backgrounds
and allows subjects to steer their own
narratives and take a stand against
feelings of shame due to their body,
Tarik
Carroll
The EveryMAN Project
sexuality, or race.
Having worked with international
recording artists such as Azealia Banks,
Cupcakke The Rapper & Diana Gordon,
Tarik was recently featured in a GQ
France editorial about plus-size men of
color.
On the EveryMan Project website, Tarik
writes about growing up with feelings of
isolation and self-consciousness due to
his appearance — especially when in
public — but once he started working
in fashion, he came to the realization
that “perfection and beauty are purely
subjective concepts.”
“Listening to male models with bodies
that rival Greek gods tell me that they
too suffer from body image issues was
equally eye-opening and jarring,” he
writes. “Hearing damaging childhood
stories of isolation, fear and obsessive self
scrutiny made me realize that as men, we
had more in common than I previously
believed.”
Tarik has a B.F.A. in graphic design from
the New York Institute of Technology.
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