A beautiful parisien deejay called Téhani (that usually works with music and noise), shooted in the silence of night by Iris Alba (that’s a nom de plume, of course). Can you hear the silence, now?
Model: Téhani
Photo: Iris Alba | tumblr | website
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The illusional photography of Turi Avola finds new symbols and a new inspiring muse in model Eresia Pennypacker. As in a fairy tale the wood appears to be elusive, a dark mirror of our awareness, a detonator for changing personality. In these photos the doll finally disappears, or maybe it’s the human that disappears, leaving behind just a doll that resembles herself.
Photo: Turi Avola | website | facebook
Model: Eresia Pennypacker | tumblr
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«I once bought six small mirrors in a £1 shop with no real idea of what I was going to do with them. After a false start it occurrred to me to try to reflect nudes in them. Because they were so small that I could only reflect a small portion of the the model’s body in one. I decided to make this a virtue, getting the viewer to fill in the missing bits of the body. I then had to decide on the most strategic features of the body to use. It soon became clear that it should be the face, breasts, groin, knees and feet. I started out using as many mirrors as I could until I worked my way down to one. On the way discovering I could put the mirrors in a different plane or order or further apart than expected or reflecting the image in a mirror with another mirror».
Alva Bernadine | website
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Reflect Upon This – Female nudes from bernadinism on Vimeo.
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Italian talented photographer Michele della Guardia shoots model Elenina, an androgynous yet fascinating beauty. Black and white glamorous photography, in an exclusive photoset for Fluffer Magazine.
Photo: Michele della Guardia | website
Model: Elenina | tumblr
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As wikipedia states: «A medicine woman is a traditional healer and spiritual leader among American Indians». We totally agree with this, but feel the urge to adjoin that in this role model Giorgia Fagà is just so perfect. Photographer Valentina Cardillo manages to get the better out of this uncommon set. Enjoy the spiritual feeling of this beauty.
Photo: Valentina Cardillo | website | facebook
Model: Giorgia Fagà | facebook | tumblr
MUA: Amelia Giudice | facebook
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When the night comes some photographers shoot in the moonlight. Some others in the Mac light. Marco Dabbicco decided for the second, and choose model Pandub Suicide to go Mac. Here are the pics. Enjoy while drinking a Moonlight Cocktail. Or a Mac one. Whatever ^_^
Photo: Marco Dabbicco | website | instagram
Model: Pandub Suicide | facebook | suicide girls | modelshoot
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«We are born with a self teaching, self healing, self motivating, and self defeating mechanism. I think people are only taught to develop the self defeatism ideas». — Rikki Kasso
Fine art photographer, visual artist and creative director: we asked a few questions to the young and talented Rikki Kasso, widely recognized for his huge work Tokyo Undressed.
How big is the Tokyo Undressed work?
The project started really in 2005 when I learned how to catalog my works online with a blog. For me it was a sort of “cloud storage” of ideas and to keep my data in a more accessible place than hard drives. It grew from there and is still only about 40% of the works in that series that I have had time to publish. Basically the project is bigger than me.
What was Tokyo Undressed inspired by?
I am an addictive and obsessive observer, so as soon as I arrived in Tokyo a new chapter of infatuation began. I couldn’t even remotely understand, read, or speak the language. My communication from then was purely intuitive, visual, and physical which shaped my artworks during that period. Japan has extreme cultural significance for me, as it’s current sociological system and civility in such a mass populous can not be compared to any other existing society on earth. The complex contradictions that composed the modern culture; godless and civil, expressive and repressive, crowded and isolated, amongst a long list of many, had me intrigued, and in love.
Maybe the difference between sexuality in USA and Japan inspired the work?
It really rests on its foundation – America was founded on Puritanical principles, loosely based on Christian morals and values. That set the tone for the way sexual behaviour is tolerated and understood, with strict outlines and observations. So there are always these feelings of guilt or rebellion first associated with sex in the west.
To begin with, Jesus doesn’t live in Japan. Japan was founded on a philosophy of naturism which eventually evolved into Shinto through Confucianism and Buddhist influences. The essence of nature is harmony, all of the elements are in place doing what they do. Nature does not destruct the harmony of nature. This simple understanding does not influence the moral attitudes on sex as do other religious ideal. And places most of the elements related to sex and sexuality beyond reproduction into the category of entertainment. These views coupled with an islander’s curiosity really lets a lot of the sexual energy be explored.
You are very productive, how do you manage focussing on so many different media in so many different techniques and fields such as erotic, design, video and paintings?
I wouldn’t necessarily call it focus, more like an all out assault on boredom. For me creativity has no rules, I do whatever I want and feel like at the time. Similar to a musician who’s plays a variety of instruments, or a dancer who performs in many genres. The common variable in these is the dedicated passion to consistently producing progressive results. I remember a good friend of mine in NYC when I was 18 or 19 years old, used to tell me «Oh you are so lucky that you are young with all of this energy and crazy ideas, I used to be like that when I was your age…». It’s now 15 years on, and my energy and passion for sharing creativity and inspiration has only intensified.
What are video and film projects created for?
As are most of works, they are self motivated creations with no real destination just an excuse to enjoy process of producing. In 2005 I made a feature documentary piece Somewhere in the Middle with my dear friend and filmmaker Jake Clennell. The work is some of my favourite of all time!!! I just haven’t taken the time to share it yet! It really encapsulates the vision and consciousness of the Tokyo Undressed project. Some video works are for clients but still I make them for myself.
Eroticism and loneliness are closely connected in your work, why?
Because it’s connected in us all. We often have difficulty understanding these feelings in our own life. In Japan those feelings are a social normalcy, which fits so well with my understanding. The impressions of “together” and “alone” are complicated. The state of sexuality exists in in singularity and multiplicity. We attract and lust over each other, sometimes in secrecy, sometimes in unity.
Rikki Kasso | website
(following pics are from the Frame of Mind vol. 1 series)
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Aleksandra V. is a russian photographer that lives and works in a small town in Tatarstan, Naberezhnye Chelny. Her works reflect the struggle of individual creativity, immersed in silence and magic. Featured in magazine and websites she exhibited for the first time in Moscow last year.
Photo: Aleksandra V. | website | flickr
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«Things happen, people change,’ is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name».
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
Photo: Sarah Easton | tumblr | facebook
Model: Vex Voir | tumblr | facebook
Wardrobe: Sarah’s Exotic Essentia
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Selina Mayer has been taking photographs since she was a child, her father was a photographer and she used to have a darkroom in the house she grew up. She started shooting when she realized that photography was the most honest and direct way to express something that was very personal.
«For me, taking photographs is a personal thing and something I put a lot of myself and my emotions into. If I haven’t made some sort of relationship with my subject I feel disconnected from the images, like they’re not my photographs. And if I don’t feel a connection to my photographs, how can I expect others looking at it to? Capturing people as individuals, and making a connection with them is crucial to that process».
In her tumblr, Mayer talks about the existence of a grey area between pornography and nude.
What does nudity mean to you?
Nudity to me means vulnerability, intimacy, openness and freedom. I find clothes evoke assumptions about the subject, so when I do shoot clothed people I tend to keep the clothing as neutral and nondescript as possible, so the focus of the image is on the subject; their face, their form, their body language, and so on.
Is porn marginalized in contemporary photography?
I definitely think that there is a stigma attached to the label “pornography”, as if images taken primarily to arouse the viewer are lesser than those taken for artistic purposes. Personally, I don’t think the categories of pornography and art need to be separated. I would love to see more art pornography — beautiful images that are both aesthetically engaging and arousing. That’s not to say that all nude images are pornography. A lot of nude art is more figurative in nature, focusing on the form of the body rather than having any erotic intent. But I certainly don’t think than non-erotic figurative art is more legitimate than pornography, I’d just like to see more better looking pornography.
I found a lot of self-portraits in your portfolio. Why do you shoot so many?
My self portraits are part of a process of introspection and self scrutiny that I’ve been working on for years. Taking self portraits has helped me understand myself better in many ways, and it enables me to express certain things that would go unspoken otherwise. A lot of my work is very personal and using my own body seems to be an appropriate way to articulate those feelings I think I took my first self portraits when I was about 15/16, and my first nude self portraits at 18. For a long time I didn’t shoot anyone other than myself, as I was too insecure about my own abilities as an artist to ask another person to pose for me. As I grew more confident and started shooting other people regularly I still took self portraits in order to experiment, and to express things in my images that I can’t through other people. One great thing about shooting self portraits is that I only have myself to answer to. I have the freedom to screw up, make mistakes and experiment more without having to worry about explaining to another person why our shoot didn’t work out. Is it possible to reinvent nude? Nude art has been around as long as art has existed, in a multitude of forms for millennia. It’s been reinvented and revolutionized thousands upon thousands of times. It’s an old subject, but artists have myriads of ways of seeing the world, and there’s so much to see in the nude human form. That’s what makes it so interesting. Is making nude art original? Of course not. But is it possible to creative new and innovative nude art? Absolutely.
Who or what do you feel more inspired by?
I spend hours upon hours looking at photographs from other photographers, contemporary and historical. I watch a lot of films. I love performance art. I try to get to exhibitions as much as possible. But I think the majority of my direct inspiration comes from direct interaction with my subjects, their personalities and the way they move or talk. Engaging with my subjects means I end up coming up with ideas that would have never occurred to me on my own, and that’s wonderful.
Selina Mayer | tumblr
(Selina Mayer was featured on Fluffer Magazine issue 3)
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Being walkers with the dawn and morning,
Walkers with the sun and morning,
We are not afraid of night,
Nor days of gloom,
Nor darkness–
Being walkers with the sun and morning.
— Langston Hughes
Photo: Gianluca Festinese | facebook | website
Model: Sara Crepaldi | facebook
MUA: Vanilla Make Up | facebook
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Insuh Yoon is one of the most original and interesting voices emerging in contemporary nude photography. He was featured in Fluffer Magazine #2 and we interviewed him for the italian edition of Inside Art magazine. Here comes the original version of the interview. Enjoy ^_^
I read you have an App on findrow and I noticed you publish a lot on it (insuhyoon.findrow.com). How does it work?
My app is a part of the Me In My Place network of apps. The idea behind the app is to offer a more complete look at my shoots. Luckily the Findrow team made the app for me so all I have to do is keep shooting and uploading my photos there for people to enjoy. The money I make from the app helps me to shoot more so I’m very happy and fortunate to be a part of it.
Have you always lived in NY? If not, why did you move from Seoul?
I’ve lived in NY since I was a small child. It was not my decision to move here it was my mother’s. The reasons are personal. I’m glad to be a New Yorker. I don’t remember much about Korea.
I saw on your blog you also collaborate with other young artists (both for modeling and for design inspiration), how did it start?
I appreciate my fellow artists and I like to collaborate with people whenever possible. It always starts randomly. Mostly people find me on my social networks, specifically tumblr or instagram. I recently photographed an incredibly talented artist named Bunny Lee who is an extremely talented painter and illustrator. The pictures we made are among my favorites. It’s my goal to shoot more of these artist’s portraits. I think art is sexy and it’s always a pleasure to collaborate with my contemporaries.
What influenced you in choosing to shoot only nudes?
There is nothing as beautiful or as timeless as the female form. I like to focus on the beauty inherent in all females. I feel the same about flowers so it’s why I’ve combined both elements into my work at present.
The first time I saw your pictures, I noticed you use flowers and water very often. Why? Shall we consider it as “the signature” of your work?
Flowers are so common yet they can be easily ignored. I’ve ignored them most of my life but after starting this series earlier this year I have a newfound love for them. I will never tire of them, I think flowers are beautiful, and they’re so varied. I like to think I’m honoring them in a way because the flowers in my shoots will forever be beautiful. As if they are being immortalized at the prime of their beauty. Right now flowers are my signature. I would love to be known as the flower photographer. The water is very new, I’ve only done two shoots involving water.
It’s something I’d love to expand on as time goes on.
You shoot women in a very rough, simple way. Sometimes bizarre: why shooting a girl with tampons?
I believe in portraying things as they are. If the model I’m photographing is having her period I don’t attempt to hide it. I’d rather show real things rather than hide them. I think people are too fearful of natural body functions. Blood doesn’t scare me, neither does body hair or anything else that may be absent in other photographers’ works. I don’t consider these things bizarre or rough I see them as natural and normal. I want to make everything look beautiful.
Your shootings are very intimate and explicit in their content, sometimes crossing the line between eroticism and porn. Where would you place your language, exactly?
My goal as an artist is to create work that is interesting and visually stimulating to the viewer. I don’t mean to cross the line. If it was up to me there would be no line.
Where do you find inspiration? Who are your favourite photographers?
I find inspiration in films, music, and art. I’ve always appreciated art of all kinds. My favorite photographers are Richard Kern, Ryan McGinley, David Hamilton, and Gregory Crewdson. I also find inspiration in the works of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch as well as any film shot by Roger Deakins (my favorite cinematographer).
Where would you like to see yourself in the future?
I’d like to see myself working exclusively on my own artistic endeavours and being able to support myself that way. I think the time is now to focus on my own art and my personal growth as an artist and as a man. I’d love to exhibit my works as well as be published more.
Do you have specific plans about new projects?
The flowers have me occupied at the moment but I’ve been thinking about traveling and photographing in places foreign and exotic to me. I want to be the Anthony Bourdain of erotic photography. I would also love to photograph other artists.
Insuh Yoon | website
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«The fear of loneliness, the need to possess or be possessed and an awareness of the inevitability of our own deaths are for me more central to the sexual experience than the bravado exclaimed at the moment of orgasm» claims Marc Blackie, the British photographer founder of Disappointed Virginity. Find out what we discovered about the dark, iconoclast and politically uncorrect artist in our interview about sex, eros and pain.
What is the Disappointed Virginity project?
Disappointed Virginity is primarily the name of my website, though has recently become the name of my production company. I didn’t know that I had a production company until someone made an IMDB page for myself and my films and added this information, but it seems precise enough to cover it all and isn’t as unwieldy as “Umbrella term to shield my photography, film and animation work from a cruel and uncaring world.”
You started taking photo without a specific artistic purpose, what happened then? I mean, how did your stories take the current shape after the first shootings?
I spent a few years taking fairly straight forward portraits and being self taught this allowed me some time to get accustomed to the medium of photography. Once I had armed myself with a suitable medium it was then that I began to look inwards to bring more of myself into the work.
I think a lot of artists forget notions of freedom. For me, you must create your own world, discover your own playground and then bang together all of the toys you have been storing in your subconscious mind. It can be very interesting to see what falls from the debris.
I also believe that sexuality isn’t a pleasant thing, though terms such as “making love” and the lyrics of a thousand banal love songs may try to convince us otherwise.
Where does your dark side come from? …does it come from your past?
We’re all the sum of our experiences and things that have inspired us. I’m not alone in experiencing a despondent adolescence, but some of that dullness does seem to have taken root and has had an overarching touch upon everything I do. I learnt that the “pleasures” of eroticism seemed to be the most effective shield against melancholic cliché for me and it is this foundation, sprinkled liberally with an awareness of my own ridiculousness and a cynical sense of humour that is very much the soul of my work.
I also believe that sexuality isn’t a pleasant thing, though terms such as “making love” and the lyrics of a thousand banal love songs may try to convince us otherwise. The fear of loneliness, the need to possess or be possessed and an awareness of the inevitability of our own deaths are for me more central to the sexual experience than the bravado exclaimed at the moment of orgasm.
Photography or film: which one fits you mostly?
Film is more entertaining for me now. As a sustained project with the scripting, several shoots, editing and then scoring, a film is hugely satisfying for me to create. The photography is, of course, still a concern of mine, but with the complete saturation over the last five years of new photographers and the resulting daily avalanche of content I sometimes find it hard to take photography as seriously as I once did. Thus the animations, thus the films and thus the other experiments. Just to keep me out of mischief, to explore new means of expression.
Our pornographic imagination is collectively fucked. Which seems appropriate. It’s a Pandora’s box situation we are in now, where the lid has not only been torn off, it’s also been gang banged and discarded, covered in semen with a perineal tear.
You describe one of your short films as “another answer of mine to the thorny topic of the pornographic imagination”. How many answers does pornographic imagination have?
Our pornographic imagination is collectively fucked. Which seems appropriate. It’s a Pandora’s box situation we are in now, where the lid has not only been torn off, it’s also been gang banged and discarded, covered in semen with a perineal tear.
It seems that via the ease of access of adult material, people are no longer given time to develop their own tastes and preferences and instead are taking on board the trappings and tropes of pornography, almost without any consideration.
I’d say that’s a tragedy.
Model Nancy Gajin
How do people react to the strong contents of your works (e.g. the use of pregnancy in the movies)?
The feedback I get is generally positive, though of course I will get the occasional anonymous hate mail flung at me about my imagined misogyny. This is always from men, who have missed the point, but I appreciate them taking the time to experience my work.
I don’t intend to shock or confront, there is no agenda to make people uncomfortable, the work is just a manifestation of what’s going on inside my head and as I start to dig deeper and deeper to find new ideas to explore my output will most likely continue to evoke strong reactions. Which is great. People who like my art tend to *really* like my art whereas those who don’t are left a bit disturbed, confused and sometimes, apparently, angry. Rather that than a vaguely positive indifference, which strikes me as pointless.
I don’t intend to shock or confront, there is no agenda to make people uncomfortable, the work is just a manifestation of what’s going on inside my head and as I start to dig deeper and deeper to find new ideas to explore my output will most likely continue to evoke strong reactions.
Your explore the darkest sides of the human psyche – as obsessions and fear – this results in a scary/attractive movies which touches people in the subconsciousness. What led you to this research?
There is a parallel with my work and pornographic download. A series of self contained clips, featuring sexually motivated content, nudity and a female performer; a link I have explored within my film Performance and Appreciation. Some of the films will come from a desire to present (and often ridicule) a sexual act that I am personally attracted to and then corrupt it, confront it and turn it on it’s head.
Other times the films will take a more serious starting point (suicide for example) or something seemingly trivial (a cup of tea – how British of me!) and I will sacrifice this notion to my subconscious mind and see where it takes me. This will often be into the darker areas of human experience as that is just what seems to keep on happening with my work.
I appear to be something of a habitual reprobate.
What is your idea of beauty?
I would love to have a considered, thoughtful answer for you here, but sadly I am just another crushingly predictable man and so the question just immediately brings to mind the eroticised female form.
And sealife. I swam with jellyfish off of the coast of Formentera last year and if those guys weren’t beautiful, then I don’t know what is.
Would you define yourself as an anti-artist?
That’s not something I had previously considered, though connections can be made. I certainly work without the restrictions of pleasantry and am not afraid to cross over into pornographic imagery to achieve my goals. I’m not concerned with being a photographer or a film maker or artist or whatever – I’m just building the Disappointed Virginity house of cards higher and higher, primarily amusing myself more than anything else, though if anyone else out there enjoys what I do then that’s fine with me.
In your new work (The Wet Nurse And Her Diabolical Concerns ) the pain is narrated as an exit, a relief from concern or from lack of love. Actually, this mood is present in all the works, and can origin both a romantic/melancholic but disturbing feeling in the spectator. Is this a metaphor to read the whole life-reality?
This has been an interesting and challenging film for me. I’ve had a strange eight months, a great time of change and upheaval for me, which I am still experiencing and the three shoots that went towards the film all took place at different stages of this transitional period.
It is my first film with dialogue and this has presented a new challenge for me as I put words into someone else’s mouth but has also allowed me to express myself further. A little daunting for me and quite the leap, but an interesting experience and I’m all for new challenges.
I don’t know if there is a romantic intention in my work, I’m far too cold and cynical for that these days, sadly. If we replace the word with lust, then have that with melancholia and an unsettled feeling then we are probably beginning to paint a good blueprint for my work.
Absence, maybe. I find eroticism to be wrapped like weeds around every facet of life and to quote the title of one of my earlier films, a special form of denial.
What is the opposite of eroticism?
Absence, maybe. I find eroticism to be wrapped like weeds around every facet of life and to quote the title of one of my earlier films, a special form of denial. The sexual imagination can temporarily relieve us from the wound of life, these distractions and pleasures this burying of heads in sand…
I’m sometimes amazed at the sheer amount of time that we all spend in the pursuit, expectation and fulfilment of our desires, but like an abused animal I am always returning to my abusive master, often with a shit eating grin daubed across my face.
Marc Blackie | website
Blackie’s recently released video feat. Tessa Kuragi
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Tamara Lichtestein is almost 26, she is from Texas and her work is already internationally recognized. Her series evoke destructured vintage icons, the clichès are interrupted in the compositions. Here is our quick talk with her about fashion, femininity, youth and all the other things she is being inspired by in her work.
What is/are the difference/s between a photographer and an author?
It just depends on how someone feels comfortable expressing themselves. I always wish I was a good writer, but there are probably some writers that wish they were good photographers. Overall, it’s art and how you express yourself. I see no difference.
You work for a lot of brands: how do you keep a balance between your identity as an artist and the client?
This is something I struggle with sometimes. I see artists working for big clients, and they lose their uniqueness. I always remember to keep myself first, and not get wrapped up in money/jobs. You always have to have fun with it first! Bring what you have to the job you’re doing, don’t lose yourself in their art direction.
“Between us and the sea” is your first book, an emotional journey that you also consider a voyage from youth to womanhood, tell us more about the mood and the aim of this project?
I’ve always been fascinated by the sea, and Editions Du LIC made a book to capture my overall mood. I recommend buying it to see what it’s all about. 
Sensuality and eroticism, are ingredients of your photography, a lot of female photographers are choosing nudity and sensual femininity to express their art, also there are females in the world who are choosing nudity to riot. Is Nudity the new communication and expression trend?
Nudity is normal, and people are so threatened by it for some reason. I’m glad this is a movement, because a woman should be just as open with her body like a man is. Women are insecure beings, and I’m glad we’re all opening up about our different, beautiful bodies. Growing up I was always extremely insecure, so I took photos of friends to open my mind. Overtime, this made me more comfortable with myself.
Art or fashion: which one is your favorite?
A combination of both. If I had to choose, I’d lean towards art. Sometimes fashion can be superficial in my opinion. Art is just a way for anyone to express how they feel. Whether it’s in colors, paint, photos, etc.
What is your next project?
Right now I’m working with Wombat, you can check out the project here.
Also, I’m shooting with Michael Calfan for the second time next week.
Tamara Lichtenstein | website | instagram
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Erin Elizabeth Kelly works in London and Belfast. She started shooting nudes with some shyness but when she discovered how much she liked it, it ended up into a job. We love her supersaturated palette and wonderful babes. Discover more on this interview we had with her.
I read you are self-taught and didn’t study photography. How come you started shooting?
My dad got me an entry level DSLR for my birthday one year and I started shooting my friends, more for fun than anything else and I developed an interest from there. It was all silly fun for a few years before I took it seriously. I always had a keen interest in the arts and fashion but didn’t know what direction I wanted to go in, I had never considered photography; I always thought it would be either fashion or film production, but I’m very glad it’s ended up this way!
Do you collaborate with fashion also?
I shot a lot more fashion when I first started experimenting with photography but I really fell in love with erotica and glamour and have focused a lot on that for the past few years and developed my portfolio in those genres. I still incorporate fashion into my shoots, it’s always an inspiration. This year in Ireland I’ll be focusing a lot more on building my fashion portfolio and I’m very excited to do so as it will a fresh and new experience.
Do you sell the pics? If so how much is an Erin Elizabeth Kelly photography? If not, why?
Yes, I sell my prints worldwide here. Prices start from £15 – £25 and vary in sizes and as limited edition prints.
Would you define your style as having a little taste of Pop or Kitsch? Or both?
I think maybe a little but only in the colour and processes used in retouching.
How do you see yourself in the future?
Happy & healthy!
Your works represent a teasing femininity, sometimes with an implied sensuality and very spicy images: how do you keep your works always elegant, even in the most explicit shots?
Personally, I think it’s all about keeping it implied. I don’t shoot anything that is highly pornographic, keeping it implied is teasing but elegant as much as it can be!
Does your work reflect any aspects of our society or contemporary woman?
Freedom!
How do you find your beautiful models?
I work closely with my female friends, I find girls online and on the street and I sometimes shoot with models signed to agencies, both fashion and glamour.
What is the meaning of the expression “girly-porn”?
Honestly, I don’t know! Somebody used it to describe my work and I really liked it haha. I guess it can be defined as porn for girls, but to me I think it would describe erotic art that is highly feminine.
What’s your biggest dream about your work? What’s the biggest fear?
To hopefully still be doing it until the day I die 
I think my fear is that one day I’ll lose my sight, I have nightmares about it haha because it’s so important to what I do!
Erin Elizabeth Kelly | website
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Akif Hakan Celebi is one of our favorite photographers, his multifaceted cultural background reflects in the richness of his stories and wonderful details of his works. We featured his unedited series Love In Paper Packages on Fluffer#2. Discover more curiosities about his life and work in this interview with the Turkish-American author.
When did you start working as a photographer?
Even though I have attempted to become a photographer a couple of times before and gave up , I can say 2004 was the year for me to decide I would be a full time photographer.
You are a Turkish-American and live between Hong Kong, Istanbul and the USA. Which culture influenced your creativity mostly?
For the last 3 years I am based in Hong Kong mostly. But as I was growing up I have spent my childhood and teenage years in Istanbul, and then moved on to USA for the college .
That’s where I have decided to become a photographer.
But even then I was very influenced by the Asian culture and that reflected into my work. Many people looking at my USA work thought I was Japanese and didn’t think that I was creating all these works in Florida.
I knew eventually I would end up in Asia and tried Japan for 6 months. Although the inspiration and my works were very satisfactory for myself, I couldn’t make a living there because of the language barrier. Hong Kong was the perfect place that would fit into my lifestyle as it had amazing street backgrounds, the type of women I would love to shoot and most of all they mostly spoke English so I could also get by financially as I was creating.
It is a great city with a lot of inspirations and amazing people.
The titles of your works are very interesting: all your works are very accurate and every “presentation” detail is important, actually: I noticed that music plays on every series on your official website, seems like you want to bring us through a new experience, from the choice of the title to the music featuring and empowering the mood of the images: how do you put all the elements together, and why?
I am a big movie buff and inspired by the moods certain movies brought into my life. When I create photos, I always see the process as if I am creating a movie, so my photo stories consists of 30-40 photos rather than a few and have fluid continuation.
The music helps that mood. When I watch movies I try to see every scene as a photograph, and when I shoot photos, every photograph for me becomes a scene. With this kind of presentation I am somehow satisfying my yearning for creating movies.
You switch from interiors to exteriors very easily: where do you find yourself at ease, which are your favorite work conditions?
I love both. When you are shooting interiors you bring out the character of that person or the photographer with the objects scattered around. Viewers can find clues there and can build ther own story. When you shoot outside, you are also introducing the character of that city or area, that’s why I tend to shoot wide angle to include all these clues in my photos. I try to make the viewer to spend a little more time looking at my photos and take them to a different world. Because that is also how I like to look at photos too. It is kind of self-masturbation.
Works like “Sodomy In Hung Hom” and almost every series you shoot in interiors narrate a sexual and sexy intimacy, a -private dimension- you enter. Sometimes playing with your models, sometimes disappearing completely behind the camera but sometimes even showing your physical presence in a mirror or showing a part of your body: so that you works balance changes constantly from a voyeur attitude to the interaction: innocence and complicity in eroticism. Tell us about this changing attitude in A.H. Celebi’s erotic shoots.
I am a human being and sexual innuendo through peeking into someones private moment is exciting. In my personal works, I tell my models that there will be nudity before hand but however they feel at the moment of shooting is up to them.
It can be innocent, emotive, plain or hardcore. That particular moment and the way they feel at the time decides that, I just go along with it and send the message through my photos.
There is no room for being secretive, everything will be out there and shared. This is the risk you take when you really want to create works that are more powerful and outside of the norms.
Sometimes that can come back to you with bad rumours but as an artist I have learned to live with them and for me creativity is more important then how some people might think.
The presence of me or part of my body in my photos help bring another dimension into those works, so the viewer is not only the viewer but can feel they are a part of the moment themselves.
I like this feeling so I don’t mind being part of the creative process physically as well.
How do you choose the models?
Usually I meet them randomly or through social media. I choose girls that give me different energy when I see them. My sense of beauty is maintained in the eyes of the person. That is the most interesting feature for me in someone.
So when I am actually in the process of shooting, I never see the nudity but concentrate on the eyes and the mood through gestures.
Male nudes are very difficult to find in photography, I found some in your work: how do you approach a work of male nude? Is it different from female?
I am not so much experienced in that actually. The males who got nude in my photos either they chose to be nude themselves or in one case I pushed them to be naked cause they are my very close friends so I can be really direct
I appreciated the welcome statement on your website «striving to go beyond established styles and widen the boundaries of photographic expression» is the leitmotif of your production, a sort of contemporary photographer’s “mission”?
I had this statement on my website since I have started photography in 2004. I have read an article with a Japanese photographer at that time and that article kind of paved the way for this statement and the direction of my works.
Akif Hakan Celebi | website
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