D-la Repubblica delle Donne

«L’offerta massiccia di porno su internet, le fotografie più didattiche che erotiche, hanno generato un fenomeno che si è diffuso sul web e sulla carta stampata. Così dall’America all’Europa sono partiti simultaneamente esperimenti di erotismo “contemporaneo” e sofisticato» scrive Roselina Salemi su D-La Repubblica delle donne di sabato 21 Febbraio. «C’è spazio per muoversi nell’universo dell’erotismo, sconfinando nell’arte. A New York sono nate molte riviste sul sesso, Adult, edito da Nicole Prikett e Berkeley Poole, ragazze eleganti e nervose dell’upper class, accanto a  25 e Treats, di Los Angeles. Piccoli ma capaci di creare una tendenza, l’Europa è sulla stessa lunghezza d’onda. Nel 2013 in Francia è tornata Lui, diretta da Frédéric Beigbeder, che nel sito si auto-definisce porno chic. Sempre in Francia c’è Irène, nato dall’idea di tre ragazze parigine, e in Olanda c’è Extra Extra magazine. In Italia, dove Playmen ha chiuso nel 2001 e Playboy che ha riaperto dopo vent’anni è entrato in crisi, è nato Fluffer con l’obiettivo di riportare la sensualità del corpo sulla pagina osando anche con rappresentazioni estreme, e selezionare i lavori più significativi».

Fluffer è l’unico magazine di fotografia erotica contemporanea su carta e sul web, attivo in Italia.

Brindiamo a un futuro sempre più erotico e chic…!

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Sometimes pink is such a cliché, but sometimes it looks like it’s so necessary…! Here we have a beautiful alt model, Denise Odorico, from Ravenna (the old bizantinian capital city) and a pro photographer, Stefano Girardi, and both of them were so brave to use pink as a theme for the set, and so clever in the results.

Stay hungry, stay pink!

Photo: Stefano Girardi | website | facebook
Model: Denise Odorico | tumblr

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Appassionata è la parola che meglio definisce Nysrine Mokdad. Passione che ha preso una forma più definita nel 2008, con l’acquisto della sua prima macchina fotografica.

Dopo aver prima concluso gli studi in nutrizionistica, ha abbandonato la carriera e si è gettata a capofitto nella fotografia. Il 2009 è stato l’anno della sua prima mostra e l’inizio di una grande avventura artistica, ma è stato solo nel 2014 che si è resa conto di fare la differenza.

Dall’alto dei suoi 23 anni ha prima esposto alla Biennale Internazionale di Arte Contemporanea Africana DAK’ART e agli incontri fotografici internazionali Ghar el Melh per poi vincere lo stesso anno il concorso INDIAFRICA. Fan di Urbex (termine utilizzato per l’esplorazione urbana), si avventura da anni nel paesaggio tunisino abbandonato dagli esseri umani. Fabbriche, case, relitti… hanno saputo rivelare a Nysrine Mokdad il fascino dei luoghi dimenticati da tutti.

Mescolando poesia e desiderio di scoperta, il suo nuovo approccio fotografico si avventura in un tema ancora controverso in Tunisia: il nudo. Per la Mokdad il corpo rappresenta una fonte d’ispirazione illimitata. Appassionata di cinema e dei suoi cliché erotici, ha saputo in tutta sobrietà sublimare il corpo nudo, giocando con la luce e le tonalità di grigio.

— Hend Ben salah

Nysrine Mokdad | website | instagram

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Adryness Gheyn, rumena, dal corpo esile, l’androginia è la sua forza. L’ambiguità sembra essere la sua prerogativa, confondendo il pubblico che la guarda. Un mix perfetto per un set artistico erotico, sensuale  e trasgressivo. Alberto Simalan l’ha fotografata in un gioco di riflessi, tra luci taglienti e nascoste, in un appartamento milanese, retaggio di sogni trascorsi.

Photo: Alberto Simalan | website
Model:  Adryness Gheyn | facebook

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In a day full of sunshine
Fra met Sam for the first time
and trying to freeze
the clicking of time
they’ve made this shoots
for your delight.
— Eresia Pennypacker

Photo: Sam Bea | tumblr | facebook | flickr
Model: Eresia Pennypacker | tumblr | facebook

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Leonard Nimoy, photographer

Leonard Nimoy, who most sci-fi fans knew as the unflappable Mr Spock on the original Star Trek series, died today [the 27th of february, ndr], aged 83. But the man who made the phrase “Live long and prosper” famous was also a dedicated artist and poet, and his photographic series range from exploring people’s hidden “other” lives (“Secret Selves”) to an appreciation of the varying forms of the human body (“The Full Body Project”). Photos: courtesy of R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California, © Leonard Nimoy.

Original article was published on The Art Newspaper, here.

Homage to Matisse from Nimoy’s “The Full Body Project”, 2005

Three Graces from Nimoy’s “The Full Body Project”, 2005

Red Apple from Nimoy’s “The Black and White Project”, 2006

Joseph—US Navy “I was born and got this superman cape and a green bear that I take with me everywhere.”, from Leonard Nimoy’s “Secret Selves” series, 2008

Matt—Painter of Americans who have witnessed war “I would aspire to be a force of nature, a simple and pure avatar of the Earth.”, from Nimoy’s “Secret Selves” series, 2008

Ira—advertising firm CEO “My secret self is a wizrd who takes illusions and makes people think they are real.”, from Nimoy’s “Secret Selves” series, 2008

A work from Nimoy’s “The Full Body Project”, 2005

Nimoy’s Self Portrait with Bulb, 2003

Nimoy’s Shaela II, 2007

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I keep on fear, keep on loathing
Nothing brings it on I keep on falling
Decide what it is, I cannot find
It’s subsides, what you make it
Never feel like you’re gonna break it
It’s gonna be alright, alright
— Thievery Corporation

Waiting for the morning with a beauty such as Kiki Wildcat is a dream, and these photos from Federico Bevilacqua are the best proof of evidence.

Photo: Federico Bevilacqua | website | facebook | tumblr
Model: Kiki Wildcat | facebook | flickr

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Corwin Prescott is an internationally published portrait and fine art photographer. I had this chat with him a few month ago for the column I cover on italian magazine Inside Art. Love his world, love his photos, and I believe you’ll love them too. — Virginia M.

The women in your shootings have different kind of bodies (some of them are very thin, others are plump). Eroticism is a matter of body or a matter of mind?
To me eroticism is very much a mental thing.  Nudity isn’t inherently sexual, but the intent of erotic art is to flip that switch in the viewer that takes their mind somewhere they didn’t necessarily expect to go.  I wasn’t initially drawn to eroticism because I just assumed it would come off as pornographic until I was exposed to the work of Jan Saudek, and realized that you could include so much symbolic depth in it.

Did you always work as a photographer? If not, what were you doing before?
Before I started doing photography full time I had a couple jobs just so that I could save up money to get the gear I needed to really pursue my art. I would work 60 hours a week doing the night time data entry shift for Hewlett Packard and then edit photos that I was shooting on weekends until sunrise. It was stifling and really boring, but when I finally left I had enough money saved to buy a few lights, and a car, so that I could get to my photo shoots.

Tell me about the shootings you publish on Zivity…?
The beautiful thing about Zivity is that they have given me an outlet to post all of my work, and artist patrons help support the continued creation of the work.  The really amazing and really terrible thing about the internet is how easy it has become to find new artists, and see everything they have done.  Many people don’t seem to feel the need to support the artists they enjoy on the internet, which makes things even more difficult. Zivity has started a serious effort to bridge that gap. Without them I would likely still be working my dead end job, and never have created much of my work.

You started to combine landscape and fine art nude because you love shooting both, and because you want emphasize a return to nature and freedom. How did it start?
As soon as I started taking photos I was doing portraits in the woods I would escape to when I was a kid. I’ve always felt safer surrounded by trees than people, so my photos of landscapes and nudes in nature are sort of my own meditation. They help me to relax and try to share all of these special places people tend to overlook with others.

I read about your 50/50 project, the project is very interesting. What’s the strangest thing you experienced or learned during that long journey (about life and about your job)?
I think the strangest thing was making it out to the states I had never been to before specifically Alaska and Hawaii.  Hawaii in particular is so far removed and far away from the rest of the United States its very strange that it is even a state.  I love that it is, as its one of the most beautiful places I have ever been with an amazing history going all the way back to the Polynesians that first settled it, but its a completely different landscape than you can find anywhere else in the United States.

Did you expected such a success when launching the project on kickstarter?
I went into it hoping that I would be successful, but really no clue if people cared enough to help support me on my endeavor. I think that people can tell when you are putting your all into something though, and when they see that they want to be a part of that something special that you are doing. Going to all 50 states is rare for most of America, so I think many people followed and lived vicariously through the experiences I had traveling.

What happened the book was published? Did anything change in your work?
My work changed a ton of over the course of photographing the book, but the actually publishing didn’t.  I’m not the best at promoting myself, I love the artistic part of the work much more than the self promotion and business aspect.

Do you ever spend time naked in the nature?
Not really, I have gone skinny dipping a few times, but really being naked in nature is such an extreme vulnerability.  As a species we have drifted so far from the forest that to just hang out naked in nature means exposing yourself to so many elements we aren’t equipped to handle anymore.

What is the link between reality and the world you build in the pictures?
I think I create much of my work to highlight the beautiful natural world that exists very firmly in our reality where as my erotic work is created to challenge the sort of mundane reality that exists in the United States, whether it be religious institutions, or gender roles.  So much of sexuality is seen as devoid of morality in the, and looked down upon, and my erotic work is made to challenge that dogmatic way of thinking.

Your artwork caught my attention for the warm and brilliant variety of colors, and of course the amazing landscapes: how do you find such wonderful locations?
I have been traveling the United States for 5 years now. Hiking extensively through out the National Park system, and once Nicole Vaunt started traveling with me I had so many places I wanted to take her for photographs that finding locations was really just a matter of getting to the many place I had already been. There are so many beautiful natural places on this earth that I will die before I get to them all.

“Journey to the end of the night” is one of your favorite books and also a work you realized in 2008. There’s a mix of sex, beauty, feticism and irony in that project and it’s quite strong. Seems like you have a double soul in your work, can you explain that?
Journey to the End of The Night was and is an intensely personal series for me, and I changed a lot of over the course of creating it. While it initially started off as sort of a comedy the more I explored fetishism and sexuality it really transformed and took on much more meaning.  Incorporating religious symbolism came very naturally and helped me to digest a lot of what I was going through and dealing with at the time.

What’s the next project you are thinking about?
I have a project I want to start soon that is going to pick up where Journey to The End of The Night left off, and I want to do a much larger book that incorporates both my outdoor nudes and my landscapes from all over the United States.

Corwin Prescott | website | facebook | tumblr | twitter

50 Models 50 States series

50 Models 50 States series

50 Models 50 States series

50 Models 50 States series

Journey to the End of the Night series

Journey to the End of the Night series

Journey to the End of the Night series

Journey to the End of the Night series

Journey to the End of the Night series

Journey to the End of the Night series

Into the Wild series

Into the Wild series

Into the Wild series

Into the Wild series

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Take a winter walk at night, on the dark and empty streets abandoned by people and populated only by the shadows. Look better. They say that sometimes, when the moon is high in the sky, you can spot a beautiful girl that gets naked just for you. For you and for Azzurra Guerrini, the young, battling, street photographer, that we are proud to introduce with this “At Midnight” series. (Or was it maybe a ghost?).

Photo: Azzurra Guerrini | tumblr | facebook
Model: Chiara Stefanoni

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For the debut of video content on our website, could we choose a better testimonial than Sergeant Ice? Indeed no! She’s a real bombshell, and this video, for Kult Society, is the proof of what we are saying. And now… turn off your cell phone, and enjoy the movie!

Sergeant Ice | facebook | tumblr | modelshoot

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Who knows if that light that we catch in the photos by Dave Renoldi Wodboi is the pure light of the morning (or to better say, the dawn light) or some sophisticated light system. And on the other hand, who cares? When pics are so soft and intriguing, the matter is in the results.

Dave Renoldi Wodboi | tumblr | facebook

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

Ph. Dave Renoldi aka Wodboi

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«My name is Julia and I am an LA based Swedish artist. I first came across Jordan’s work on her tumblr account and was immediately drawn in. First, she barely looked of age, and second, she had an uncanny self-awareness and confidence in all her images that made me very aware of myself as a viewer in relation to her. I was very intrigued with my response, as I very rarely have a response to nude models other than, “she is gorgeous”, “she is interesting” or “she can really pose.” Here, however, was a woman who was incredibly confrontational, knew it and heightened it by saying “I know you’re looking, and you should keep on doing just that”».

«I first invited the pint-sized Jordan to my studio, where I convinced her to be duct-taped to my wall. That shoot didn’t go so well due to breathing restrictions, a possible hangover and malfunctioning photography equipment, but we stayed in touch and worked together several times after that, most recently on a piece for the The Supercute World of Hello Kitty, currently on display at The Japanese American National Museum in downtown LA. I shot this particular series as an homage to this wonderfully free-spirited woman I consider my most prominent muse as of today».

— Julia SH

Photo: Julia SH | website
Model: Jordan Bunniie | tumblr | facebook

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Select Your Hero is a project from photographer Alex Aldegheri, that we’ve been publishing on-line since last november. Now it’s time to bring it down to paper (or to a downloadable pdf). So, what’s Select Your Hero all about, anyway? The project links alt models such as Refen Doe, Ultima Suicide, Miss Fran Love and Slim Suicide to the cosplay culture, in a soft and gentle way, in pure “Aldegheri” style. Superhero’s involved are both from the Marvel and the DC universe: Batman, Superman, Hulk and Iron Man.

Discover and collect this amazing hommage to contemporary pop culture and to the beauty of tattooed models!

Select Your Hero, 44 page-mag packed of photos, is available in pdf  version or on paper.

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Photographers from worldwide, there’s still 9 days left to participate in Visible White Photo Prize 2015: the open call for photographic projects and single works open to photographers and artists worldwide, without limits of age or experience. The entry deadline has been extended to Monday March 16.

Founded in 2012, Visible Photo Prize is organised by Celeste Network and Fondazione Studio Marangoni in partnershp with University of Luxembourg, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Foam Magazine, East-Wing. The 2015 prize edition, curated by Francesca Fabiani (curator of the photographic collection at Rome’s MAXXI_Architettura) and Paul di Felice (professor at the University of Luxembourg) seeks to explore the varied and fragmented experiences we have in relation to the family.

The prizes amount is 5,000 € cash.

By 30 March 2015, 10 finalist projects and 5 single works will be selected by the international jury:

Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director, East-Wing, Dubai
Christian Gattinoni, Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles
Elisa Medde, Managing Editor, Foam Magazine, Amsterdam

The finalist photographs, the best takes on family issues today, will be exhibited from 15 May to 12 June 2015 at Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy, and will be included in a specially prepared catalogue for the show.

Have a look at the website.

For all inquiries: info@celesteprize.com

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Lo sguardo è il tramite del desiderio, ma è un desiderio intimo, velato da una forma di auto voyeurismo derivante di fatto da un “atto performativo” totalmente solitario in cui l’artista diventa attore e spettatore di se stesso. L’opera di questo singolare artista si contraddistingue per la pluralità di intenti, e infatti alla componente “performativa” si va ad aggiungere un elemento formale di ricerca che lo porta ad intervenire sui negativi con gesti di violenza fino a manipolare l’immagine attraverso bruciature, graffi, sostanze chimiche e viraggi come una sorta di gioco “d’amour passion” a testimonianza di un sadomasochismo autoindotto dove i due elementi contrapposti si ricompongono nella stessa persona attraverso la sua rappresentazione e l’intervento di autodistruzione. Eros e Thanatos riuniti in una logica delle assenze, dei non luoghi che prendono il sopravvento e confluiscono in un’immagine del tutto sorprendente nei risultati che vanno ben oltre le logiche costruttive e sfondano i canoni estetici convenzionali per proporre una realtà divisa tra forme astratte e dimensioni fluttuanti di una realtà parallela dove sogno e pazzia sembrano incontrarsi tra le note di brani mutuati della musica electronica anglosassone. Questo non essere attraverso la rilevante componente di autorendersi un fantasma permette a Ivan Piano di produrre opere estremamente raffinate, concettuali, dove l’atto creativo in tutte le sue parti va a confluire nel proprio ego, quasi a riportare in voga il mito dello specchio che riflette mondi nascosti e misteriosi. Questo è il “pensiero cloisonné” di un artista ambivalente che rinchiude non solo se stesso o la sua autorappresentazione ma tutte le divagazioni eroiche ed epiche di una generazione cresciuta a cavallo degli anni ‘80 e ’90 del ‘900, sfuggendo a una realtà dell’immagine mostrata a tutti i costi per mezzo di un’autonegazione sfaldando l’usuale ricerca del bello assoluto con il dubbio perimetrale dell’incerto e del travestimento spettrale. Questo rivelano le opere conturbanti e assolute di Ivan Piano, spirito libero che attraverso un lungo viaggio anche tra le persone a lui care, la letteratura, la musica e la natura arriva al perigeo di se stesso con la deformazione e la deframmentazione della propria immagine per rivelarci un’anima geniale.

— Sabrina Raffaghello

Photo: Ivan Piano | facebook
Tutte le opere sono courtesy galleria Sabrina Raffaghello (Amsterdam – Milano).

In mostra fino al 28 marzo 2015 a Torre Annunziata (NA) nell’ambito della collettiva La gloria dell’ombra. Apparizioni della fotografia. Per maggiori informazioni: qui.

Ivan Piano, Woman With Long Hair (Bat), 2012, stampa ai sali d’argento 30×40 cm (ed. 3)

Ivan Piano, Revealed Dream, 2013, stampa ai sali d’argento 30×40 cm (ed. 3)

Ivan Piano, I Like It, 2015, stampa ai sali d’argento 30×40 cm (ed. 3)

Ivan Piano, Angel (Lovingly Yours), 2014, stampa ai sali d’argento 30×40 cm (ed. 3)

Ivan Piano, A Midsummer Erotic Dream, 2015, stampa ai sali d’argento 30×40 cm (ed. 3)

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«The discovery of our inner erotic attitude», says photographer Luca De Nardo, «is a duty towards ourselves». And indeed he’s probably right, as psychoanalysis studies tell us from several years. But what about model Natasha Legeyda? We believe we have some duty towards her as well!

Photo: Luca De Nardo | tumblr
Model: Natasha Legeyda | website | facebook
Location: Milano, Italia

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Inspired from the cult underground movie We Must Remain The Wildhearted Outsiders directed by Chase Lisbon, model Elena Di Gleria and photographer Flash Blesst sent us this set of goldframe polaroid, and we find them truly outstanding!

Model: Elena Di Gleria | facebook
Photo: Flash Blesst | website | facebook

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Rebecca Tillett is the talented mind and eye we hosted on the very first issue of Fluffer Magazine. Her brilliant career started by beeing selected by Taschen for the first volume in their The New Erotic Photography series. We decided it was time to listen to her very own voice. And her she comes!

Are your women a mirror of your personality or is it melancholia you like to represent in your images?
I think it’s probably a bit of both. I tend to feel most creative when I’m feeling melancholy so I typically convey that emotion more so than any other even though it’s sometimes unintentional. When it’s purposeful, it’s because I’ve always more vividly seen the beauty in the darkness than in light. And as I age, I more freely embrace that fact about myself.

Your interior became a charming distinctive feature of your pictures. Models are naked in the kitchen, over the moquette, in the living room and in the bathroom dressed only with flashing accessories and lipstick: an ironical mix between eroticism and simplicity. What is the intention behind this representation of contemporary allure?
I love hearing what other beings see in my photographs because often they bring something to my attention that I never before realized. This is one of those instances. With that said, perhaps there isn’t always clear intention there. Or maybe there is but I don’t realize it. I’ll tell you what I know: When I put a model in heels and lipstick I’m both demonstrating an irresistible society-deemed sexiness; undebatable symbols of American feminism that have existed for many years over – red moist plump lips ready to devour you, beautiful heels that elongate the legs (I also utilize a wide-angle lens to further lengthen my model’s legs), sexy undergarments or perhaps none at all, a flash of beautiful breasts and perky nipples as well as demonstrating the strict confines of what we consider beauty to be. And I prefer to keep it simple because as important as the setting is (typically colorful and character-filled with a sharp tinge of vintage-flavoring reiterating the fact that these norms have existed for quite a while – maybe even over-stayed their welcome), its real only function is to complement the model – all attention should be on the woman in the photograph.

I read about you on your blog and social network, and I noticed that you don’t like appearing in your pics, you declared you don’t like your image although sometimes you post a few. What do you think about beauty and what about erotic photography, in the age of selfie?
When I’m my own model it’s usually due to necessity. I do it rarely when I don’t have a model at my immediate disposal. On one hand, it’s great because I know exactly what I want to impart in my photographs and as model AND photographer, I can do that but on the other hand, it’s extremely limiting because I’m ridiculously self-conscious about so many different aspects of my appearance so I avoid photographing myself in certain poses or at certain angles because I’m so disapproving of them – so ultimately in that sense, my self-portraits differ drastically from my other work (in my opinion, anyway – that might not be immediately obvious to outsiders.)
I think beauty in the age of the selfie has transitioned to have a much more narrow definition. It’s almost toxic. Digital photography and retouching software has enabled the every day user to permanently delete or edit any photographs the subject might not find immediately flattering. It’s nice that we’re now able to put only our best face forward but I also believe it’s the opposite of humbling. Maybe we never come to terms with what we really look like anymore because we can delete representations we might not find pleasing on a whim. It’s delusional and I believe, in time, it’s likely to breed excessive vanity and narcissism.
Natacha Merritt really pioneered erotic photography in the age of the selfie – actually she was years ahead of her time and I often cite her as one of my primary influences. Taking the camera and turning it on herself conveyed a sexual power I hadn’t before seen. It was inspiring and a style I still harken back to when I occasionally turn the camera on myself.

The line between erotic photography and fashion is becoming very thin: what is your opinion about the young contemporary photographer’s scene and this new trend?
Is this a new trend? I feel like this has been happening for at least the last ten, if not twenty years. Personally, I was picking up on a fashion and erotic correlation in the 90s with models like Kate Moss. In fact, it was 90s supermodels that propelled me into erotic photography. (Not many know that I shot my first erotic/nude set of photos IN 1999 when I was only 17.) I often cite seeing Fiona Apple’s 1997 Criminal music video as the lightbulb moment for me, that «A-ha! That’s exactly what I want to do!» moment. The video feels dirty, definitely sexual despite being clothed, vintage-themed and the wardrobe plays a large part in that. Before shooting a new model, I’ve actually been known to have shown them that video in the hopes that they’ll better understand where I’m coming from in my direction.

Have you ever thought about a project with male models?
I’ve considered it but never too seriously. For reasons that are probably too psychological for me to understand or delve into here, the male body doesn’t do for me what the female body does. I’m sexually attracted to both sexes but aesthetically? My passion lies purely in the feminine realm. The female body really is a work of art. I’ve always seen the male physique as a tool and that’s it. I wouldn’t be opposed to a project with both a male and female but I’m not yet at the point that the male body alone inspires me. Could happen in the future though, you never know how your own tastes and preferences will shift.

After a period as a free lance, you went behind to a traditional job. Is the choice of working and living as an artist,  a privilege even in the USA?
Oh, living and working off your art alone in the States is a definite privilege and unfortunate rarity. I was only able to walk away from the traditional 9-5 grind and attempt the freelance thing because my husband was making good enough money to support us both and I had his blessing. That was an opportunity not many people can say they’ve had but I don’t feel like I took full advantage of it as I found it hard to stay motivated. It’s almost as if I’m not struggling to make a living I have a hard time forcing myself out of bed in the morning. It’s always been really sad and frustrating to me how elusive my creativity can be. And to make matters worse, I’ve received conflicting advice on the topic over the years: some insist you should force it and in doing so, it’ll come while others swear by waiting patiently for it to appear. I’ve attempted both and haven’t found absolute success in either method.
Anyway, back to the original point: I left my husband last Fall in pursuit of a happiness I’m still not certain exists. It was the scariest move I’ve ever made but it’s been empowering and eye-opening. Doing so, also meant I had to give up the dream of living off my art and once again, find a regular job to pay the bills. So now, I’m battling a different beast: attempting to stay inspired enough to want to shoot and pursue my own creativity in the photography realm in my off-hours when I spend 45 hours a week working as graphic designer. It’s hard not to let work suck every last ounce of creativity from me.

Rebecca Tillett | website

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«If self portrait gifts you with the consciousness of your reflection, I separate myself in two parts, two L’s, as a DueL*. And thats how the common thinking of society views women, as bipolar’s deseased. Even so it would be so much better to be bisexual».

Luisa Terminiello | facebook | tumblr | instagram

*maybe you catch better this inside joke knowing that in italian «due» is «two»

L'articolo DUE/L: a project from Luisa Terminiello sembra essere il primo su Fluffer Magazine.

Sometime mornings have that feel, when the bright sun filters through the windows and everything smells of pancakes and butter. Sometime mornings have that feel, and you feel blessed by life. But it never happens that you’re blessed has Marco Petroi, shooting beautiful Fiamma. Some mornings are only for the lucky ones.

Photo: Marco Petroi | website | tumblr | facebook
Model: Fiamma | tumblr

L'articolo Pure mornings: Marco Petroi shoots Fiamma sembra essere il primo su Fluffer Magazine.