I've been turned down by Google Adsense, so this blog will remain advert free. I'm not quite sure why - though it might be to do with the pathetically small number of views it gets.
My mate Debs was excited when I said I'd restarted the blog, but when I told her it was photography based, her disappointment was palpable. 'I thought it would be you being amusing' she said. Debs is one of the four people in the world who finds me amusing, and there's no way I'm marginalizing myself even more. Besides which the views of an aging lefty photographer are pretty much ignored in the town I now call home, and I'm not sure I have the ambition and drive required to be ignored by the world as a whole.
Anyway, this entry has some images from a personal project I've been shooting sporadically for several years, and is centered on 'alternative models' - girls who cater for the very large hobbyist market that has erupted following the release of digital cameras. The models are generally not the sort you'd get from Elite or Wilhelmina - they quite often are not the right shape or height, or have too many tattoos or piercings, weird haircuts etc etc. They generally have a beauty that's a bit off centre, and they all have stories of a guy with a fifty quid camera paying them £200 to pose naked.
I was originally planning to have either an exhibition or a book of the shots, but as there's no money in either I'm selling life size prints as one offs through Saatchi Art with an option to buy an open edition of 8"x12". Buy the girlfriend one for Christmas if you're looking to end your relationship.
My mate Debs was excited when I said I'd restarted the blog, but when I told her it was photography based, her disappointment was palpable. 'I thought it would be you being amusing' she said. Debs is one of the four people in the world who finds me amusing, and there's no way I'm marginalizing myself even more. Besides which the views of an aging lefty photographer are pretty much ignored in the town I now call home, and I'm not sure I have the ambition and drive required to be ignored by the world as a whole.
Anyway, this entry has some images from a personal project I've been shooting sporadically for several years, and is centered on 'alternative models' - girls who cater for the very large hobbyist market that has erupted following the release of digital cameras. The models are generally not the sort you'd get from Elite or Wilhelmina - they quite often are not the right shape or height, or have too many tattoos or piercings, weird haircuts etc etc. They generally have a beauty that's a bit off centre, and they all have stories of a guy with a fifty quid camera paying them £200 to pose naked.
I was originally planning to have either an exhibition or a book of the shots, but as there's no money in either I'm selling life size prints as one offs through Saatchi Art with an option to buy an open edition of 8"x12". Buy the girlfriend one for Christmas if you're looking to end your relationship.
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