Dark Daze photography blog

you know what its like, in fact we’ve all been there, straddling the arm of the ol’ sofa and the chest of drawers, trying to straighten the picture frame, then whoops, minor earthquake, lose your balance, and find yourself falling backwards onto your 4 foot blonde hair extensions, and the picture drops out the frame altogether…. Like I said we’ve all been there….but be careful folks….

Iveta straight out the camera, no tweaks, from a while back…..

so I feel i havent had a rant for ages, and maybe due to the fact I feel rough after a stupid long day yesterday and an outside shoot, well maybe its time….. But I cant summon the bile yet, though I did have an interesting conversation with a colleague the other day who said that someone had been saying to him that they used to like my work but now its just all topless women….

well it got me thinking so I looked at the gallery Homepage, out of the first 40 shots one is topless- it was commissioned, for a topless latex shoot, then there are 3 nudes or near nudes with girls who have their backs to the camera…. Not exactly slewing out a sea of filth, though i guess thats open to interpretation, but its more in the mind of the beholder than anything else. Its not even that I need to justify it to others, whatever I or they shoot, go and take pictures of sunsets if you want, or anything else that grabs your fancy, and I’ll shoot what I want or what I’m asked to…. but I hate the idea that people will dismiss without actually looking. I work with a predominantly female crew, stylists, make-up artists and my main assistant. All very ’strong’ women too, that know their own minds, run their own business, and rock their own styles.

But I can be exploitative- see here I didnt even press the button- just threw in the camera, shut the door and got them to do it…. (and ya know what it turned out better for it) Polaroid 600, cheap plastic walmart version

The last hotel shoot ended up being me and matt but the remaining 7 members of the team all ladies, and of course one of them my girlfriend of several years, who happily sent the final images to her Mum, sure there is a very fine line, I dont think we have got anywhere near crossing it yet. But dont worry I am saving that for my Christmas image, when the filth will come flying so thick and fast you’ll need to get a new computer…. better start pre-writing those indignant emails of complaint….first one wins a prize. mwah….x

Posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am in General opinionated rants that I will later regret..