That photograph is now featured in his new photobook and accompanying exhibition for Fredrickson’s Wedgies series, which launched at the end of 2024. Inside, an array of muscular, toned men are photographed bent forwards, cheeks are pulled outwards and upwards by wedgies of clenching magnitude, often pulled over the subjects’ heads, or even suspending their full body weights from singular points. One sees a man suspended by his underwear from a doorframe, while other shots see different men give wedgies to the models.
The project was sparked at the end of 2019, when Fredrickson was in his Brooklyn studio space with a model. They were trying out different outfits and underwear, when suddenly, the shot Fredrickson was after came into focus. “He gave himself a wedgie,” he says. “And I was like: ‘Oh my god, this is it. This is what I want.’ Just the stretching, the movement – it felt very dancer like.”
After he began posting his pictures – shot entirely on film – on social media, he soon found himself immersed in the online wedgie community, as well as finding encouragement and support from beyond the kink spheres. “The wedgie community really embraced me and welcomed me with open arms,” he says. “That’s how I found the perfect underwear to use for my atomics, and then as it gained popularity I connected with fashion people, and people all over.”
