Michael Stokes, a fine arts photographer in California, takes a bold new approach to veteran portrait photography. He took super powerful shots of war veterans looking all sexually charged in a calendar style photo shoot with their amputated body parts and prosthetics. Just so inspiring and terribly sexy.

The project began with Alex Minsky, a U.S. Marine whose leg was amputated after suffering a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2009. Alex a confident and a proud veteran signed up for this project followed by other veterans.  

“Some people will say to me ‘Oh, this is really helpful to their self-esteem,’ or, ‘You’re making them feel like men again,'” Stokes told MTV. “These guys have come to me very healed and ready to take the world on. I’m not giving them back their confidence. They already have it.”

Original story and images from, Boredpanda.

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