"Harder Better Faster Stronger – Are Men OK? at Fotografiska in Stockholm is the kind of exhibition that is exceptionally hard to get right under today’s sometimes overperceptive eye, where the court of public opinion is quick to pass judgment, nitpicking wherever fodder for a particular stance can be found," finds Ashik Zaman in a review about this partly surprising new fall exhibition,

"Soon after embarking on my Black Carnation series, I’ve realized that I am dealing with histories that had often left no written trace, that were deliberately forgotten or censored. I am reflecting on relationships that most likely lasted no longer than an orgasm on a gay cruising beach," shares artist Konstantin Zhukov in an in an interview, connecting to a solo exhibition at Centrum för Fotografi in Stockholm.

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"Regardless of all good will and clever rhetoric, people identified as men solve their troubles by physical means," says Finnish visual artist Harri Pälviranta. He is currently showing his photographic series Battered in Harder Better Faster Stronger – Are Men OK?, the new exhibition surveying contemporary men and masculinities at Fotografiska in Stockholm.