Franco Dupuy's book Cruising Diaries is a portrait of queer pleasure at its most raw, secret and uncontainable. Devised as a photobook/diary, it explores the elusive visual language of cruising, a queer practice of anonymous desire played out in public spaces, where bodies negotiate consent through gaze, gesture and instinct.
Dupuy captures what is almost impossible to show: fleeting encounters, unspoken codes, and moments that vanish as quickly as they appear. Set in places that shift after dark – parks, train stations, beaches – the book documents a world that resists the camera, yet insists on being seen.
Cruising Diaries becomes both archive and fiction: a love letter to the thrill of the hidden, and the politics of queer pleasure.
Set Margins', 256pp, 20cm x 10cm, illustrated paperback, 2025