Bondi Work, the third book of the series, focuses on the Australian male in the blue collar work environment.

OUTSTANDING
It's everything you could want in a photo book on the male subject: Great lighting, hot guys and LOTS of tasteful frontal nudity. Bruce Weber WHO?  M. B. Whitacre (Amazon, January 10, 2007)

 PAUL FREEMAN’S FINEST BOOK TO DATE
“This is a fine collection for a very large audience. Not only are the models well chosen and well placed, but the photographs are also very high quality in composition and lighting and choice of setting. Highly recommended!”

According to Wikipedia, 'Bondi is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia', but to photographer/artist Paul Freeman, Bondi is a resource for the models of his highly successful series of 'Bondi' male photography books. This volume is, in my opinion, the finest of the series. Combining full-page bleed colour photographs with equally sophisticated black and white images, and interspersing these dramatic compositions with occasional two page spreads of snapshot size images that often create 'stories' simply by their placement on the page, makes for a large scale survey of the amazing Australian models Freeman finds and captures for us.

The theme here is work and the settings are all in the various factories and workplaces in Bondi. The men are buff, but not distortedly so, and are presented both au natural and in elements of work clothing. For the most part these models appear very natural: no body shaving here, no need for oils and accoutrements - these are men in the raw, and enjoying themselves. The work theme matches the characters in this portfolio as these men all appear to be naturally buff from labour in the workplace (as well as the gym).

Freeman includes full frontal (and rear) nudity but only incidentally. This is not a collection of aroused models but rather a collection of men who can arouse the viewer merely by the gifts they possess! This is a fine collection for a very large audience. Not only are the models well chosen and well placed, but the photographs are also very high quality in composition and lighting and choice of setting. Highly recommended.  Grady Harp, (reported on Amazon, January 6, 2008)

 
YOUR JAW WILL DROP IN...UH...AWE or HUNGER
There is a song in which the lyrics sum up my reaction to this book.."you’re just to marvelous for words...". Enough said. Start salivating. Paul A. Minafri (Amazon, October 26, 2007)

TASTEFUL RIPE AND DELICIOUS
 “Oyee Vay”, “Ei Yi Yi”, and “OMG!” will be your cries at every turn of the page, really!!!  

This ‘expose on the working Sydney man’ pictorial…gives you a general idea of the beauty of the Aussie men's natural form in the act of every day working class life…[and] a general idea of the Aussie zest for life attitude…These guys are a part of the scene that makes Oz Down Under a unique canvas of the ‘Lust for Life’ population that seems to savour physical activity and outdoorsy lifestyle.

So gawk if you will at perfect buns of steel and rippling chiseled form, these guys are for real, and believe me, those are all most probably sparkling blue eyes that go along with those square jaws and Cheshire grins.

I have all three of Paul Freeman's collection,  tasteful enough for coffee table display, in a mature setting of course, very well done and although a bit dark and brooding, I am sure Mr. Freeman intended to give it the rough hewn and dank environment these working men must endure to make it through their rough lives.... Brian Bulrice (Amazon, March 8, 2007)

GREAT PICTURES!
I am familIar with [Paul Freeman’s] work, but I felt that this edition was by far his best work to date. Beautiful black and white picture of men set in work situations. I highly recommend this book. Shane Wilson (Amazon, May 12, 2007)

GRUFF TRADE
“Once in a great, long, while, a book of man-pics comes along that successfully creates a sexy, fantasy universe populated by attractive men going about the daily job of just being masculine”

Who would have ever predicted that the beginning of the 21 century would be over saturated with glossy, hard cover, expensively produced books on the subject of male physical appeal.

Unfortunately, 95 percent of the wet-dream books are silly, ridiculously self-conscious, theatrically-staged attempts at erotica with pouty male models & eager to cash-in camera queers referencing female pinup poses and attitudes more than anything else. Both Betty Page and Marilyn Monroe were queens of the erotic pose, but men should never mimic them. The vast majority of the books also look like they were shot by the same camera crew and staged by the same stylist. One body-type, one facial structure, 2 maybe 3 basic poses. Very mind-numbingly unimaginative.

But once in a great, long, while, a book of man-pics comes along that successfully creates a sexy, fantasy universe populated by attractive men going about the daily job of just being masculine (in the blue collar sense). Casting the subjects is the most important -after two decades of obvious, gay-icon types that are, naturally, no longer sexy- followed by the unwavering taste of the photographer. Although the images [in Bondi Work] are staged (as opposed to documentary), there's a ease and a naturalness about the images that's refreshingly attractive. The use of natural light, butch/gritty locations, the relaxed facial expressions (instead of forced seductive cliche' stare-downs)  and the UN-beefcake poses, work well. I can only imagine what these books have done for Bondi-eye-candy-tourism in Australia. Boyway (printed on Amazon, April 20, 2008)