14 DAY TRIAL // New York City's taxi drivers pose provocatively in 2014' Beefcake calendar giving buyers more than just a few giggles. The calendar is the project of two freelance photographers, Phil Kirkman and Shannon McLaughlin and is set to raise charity money for the University Settlement.
The photographers took to the streets of New York in an attempt to find the perfect taxi drivers for the humorous calendar. The models had to be provocative but most of all hilarious, as the yellow-cab dedicated calendar is meant to bring some smiles on people's faces. And they managed to pick exactly the perfect few that posed as well as any professional models.
The calendar's price is almost $15 (€10,90) and all the net sales revenues will go to America's oldest settlement house, the University Settlement, based on the city's Lower East Side since 1886.
The local group has been helping immigrants and working individuals for almost a century by offering “basic services like quality education, housing, and literacy programs,” according to NYC Taxi Calendar website.
The NYC cabbies are pictured in hilarious situations while posing shirtless or bare-chested, eating an apple, blowing kisses, reading romantic novels, taking selfies or carrying luggage in a more unconventional way.
This kind of calendar became something of a yearly tradition, as each December a new theme for the hilarious pin-ups appears. Last year's calendar featured the fire department's heroes, also with the purpose of raising money for charity, and the stunning city protectors posed showing their well-built bodies in a series provocative photos.
Compared to the fire-fighters' calendar, the NYC taxi drivers don't show those amazing physiques, but with just the right amount of sense of humor, the calendar is actually a big success. The hilarious drivers show a different side of the city's hard working class while letting go of inhibitions and posing for the amusement of citizens.