“This is not porn. This is reverence.”

With this first issue of Porn Art Amsterdam, photographer Erwin Stephan opens the curtains on a deeply personal and unapologetically intimate collection of black-and-white porn art photography. Over 24 pages, the viewer is invited into a world where vulnerability and power meet in raw, poetic tension—where the body becomes both landscape and language.

Shot with a fearless lens and a painter’s eye, these images play with shadow, composition, and gesture. They echo the analog spirit of vintage erotica while reclaiming erotic photography as a field of emotional truth, artistic freedom, and sacred expression. The work is unfiltered, confrontational, sometimes playful, sometimes stark—but always human.

This magazine is not about provocation for the sake of it. It is about witnessing. Framing desire with dignity. Touching the edge of what we’re often told to look away from—and staying there with presence and intention.

The cover, emblazoned with the grey, golden and red XXX of Amsterdam’s coat of arms, is not a warning—it’s a signature. This is Amsterdam’s legacy reimagined: bold, beautiful, and artistically explicit.