Showing posts with label light and shadow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light and shadow. Show all posts
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06 July 2010
More anonymity...
The model is BANANA SPLIT. She came from Philadelphia to shoot with me in New York. We shot this image about two years ago. It was a steamy shoot with a mostly dark mood that involved self stimulation. I will post more pictures from this series at a later date.01 July 2010
More Big as in Beautiful...
These images are from two separate shoots with a "plus sized" model named BOBBI. She is another one of those models I admire who is comfortable in her own skin and for my money, the result from our shoot are a testament to that by my account. I have serious reservations about trying to shoot nudes with a model I have to convince to do so. So far I have been pretty luck with the models I have been approached by and vice versa.
I have begun to appreciated the virtues of rope almost as much as I have the virtues of fabric. I haven't done any hardcore rope work yet. Not sure I am up for that just yet, but maybe I'll get there someday.
Big as in Beautiful...
My sense of beauty has always eschewed the constraints of size, race or any other immaterial considerations. Today I am featuring a model who represents the "big" woman. One thing I have always admired about models I shoot nude or partially nude is their comfort level with those things about themselves that others might disparage. My friend and model LAKIA AMOR is one of those. I have shot with her only once before, but have remained in touch with her. I enjoyed my shoot with her and am looking forward to doing it again soon. Before we shot, we had an extensive conversation about things related to her life at that time and we settled upon the idea of exploring molting or the shedding of things. Burdensome things, worn out things, just things. The first picture here is intended to convey that notion. I hope we succeeded in doing just that.
I also want to salute a director friend of mine ALBERTO FERRERAS who published his first novel B as in Beauty, last summer. There is common ground between these pictures and his book which is about learning to celebrate who we are inside and out. Whether fetishized or objectified, big women carried a burden most of us will never understand. It is therefore a triumph whenever a woman or in my case a photographer discovers the B in Beauty.
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