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For ten years we were the Warwick Rowers. A campaigning calendar featuring a team of male university rowers who set out to challenge homophobia in sporting culture in arty, humorous naked images that everybody loved.
When we produced the first Warwick Rowers calendar in 2009, we did not foresee that we would grow into a global community. But, sixteen years later, here we are – still growing and still going strong!
When we became the Worldwide Roar in 2020, we were able to invite athletes from other sports. It allowed us to include more body types and address wider inequalities. Then in 2024 we began the next phase of our journey as Barefoot Man.
Barefoot Man is building on sixteen years of experience to developing a range of innovative tools that will empower men of all sexualities and backgrounds to explore their understanding of masculinity and their relationships with it.
Barefoot Man enables everyone who identifies as male to confront the rules they were taught as children, to take a more critical look at the culture in which they live and explore how they can make a difference to everyone in their everyday lives – as men and as allies.
See all of our latest photography, films and articles through this year’s issues of ROAR Portfolio!
Our creative team has always offered different perspectives on the male body. We will continue to do so with fresh content, fresh eyes and a longstanding ambition to support more diverse perspectives on masculinity.
We ask men to undress as a way to let go of unconscious assumptions, to re-examine how they were taught to think and to tap into a deeper, more meaningful connection with their potential as men. It is the gateway to a truly liberating experience.
Many men grow up thinking that control is the route to freedom. The male mental health statistics prove that the commonly accepted rules of masculinity are not working. These rules do not work for men or for anyone else. It is time for change.
Weoffer a huge archive of films, images, and prints from nearly fifteen years of challenging how we look at men. You can explore this archive in our Shop.
But the great content we have become known for is just the beginning. In 2026 we will be launching Barefoot Life Models, a campaign that will allow men in cities around the world to show up naked as allies for change in real world situations.
This website contains artistic and documentary material, including non-sexual nudity, created for the purposes of social commentary, education, and creative expression.
The content on this site is not intended for children. Viewers should be 18 years of age or over, or have the consent of a parent or guardian.
Barefoot Man exists to explore themes of vulnerability, masculinity, and social responsibility through art. No explicit sexual activity is depicted, and all participants have given informed consent.
If you are under 18 or feel uncomfortable viewing such material, please do not continue.
How we became Barefoot Man
Our goal at Barefoot Man is to develop tools so that men with different experiences of masculinity can support each other, with and without their clothes on! It is a formula we have been working on for fourteen years. From our beginnings as the Warwick Rowers naked calendar at one sports club in England in 2009, to inviting sportsmen from different sports and diverse lived experiences to join us in the Worldwide Roar, here is a brief history of our campaign for healthier versions of masculinity.
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