Isabelle

"I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."  ~Helmut Newton

Lady Lazarus

The fifty-year-old mattress adds a nice aesthetic.

Ajaye

L'Origine Du Monde.

Twinky

I've done a lot of maternity portraits over the years— but they are most often paid shoots where I cater towards the images being natural and flattering. Not to mention that I'm usually more concerned with making my subject comfortable, rather than experimenting. Here is pregnancy image where I was able to experiment a bit more.

Miera

Bettie Page inspired.

Little One

Yes, yet another shower shot. What can I say– shooting in the shower seems to access certain expressions which can't be captured without the magical properties of warm water. The comfort of water falling just simply relaxes most people, summoning a very natural body language.

Percolate

Sfumato.

Heff

Detail.

Meira

Fakey-fake pole dancin'

Izzy

Izzy, cleaning the floor.

Sarah

This makes for a nice little series. The down on the floor with the subject point of view has always been one of my favorites. BTW, that is a stocking that she is pulling off her legs with her mouth. I don't typically like to explain what's going on in a photograph, but in this case, it perhaps makes more sense with that helpful hint. If that causes this image to be a fail, then oh well. I guess I might like it more than many others– simply because I remember liking it as I shot it. That's probably not a problem that I should complain about, even if it happens often.

Tali De'Mar

Close-up face-off: An instance in movies or TV shows when two people face off for an argument and the shot zooms in on one's face and then the other's. It continually switches back and forth. A shorter series of shots can be used for drama while a strangely long series of shots is usually used for comedy.

Maeve

I really dig the composition on this one. The high ceiling and a good ladder definitely helped.

Heff

This seems like a good start to a new window series.

Lyndsay

I always love an unusual point of view.

Lucy & Nathalia

The Glom.

Stephanie

First shoot in this new tub.

Percolate

"If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough."   ~Robert Cappa

Sadly, Robert Cappa (a war photographer) died from stepping on a land mine, trying to get that last shot.

Scarlett

A little prettier than usual...

Heff

Stocking fetish.

Ether

Ether lives in Brooklyn and is a vegan. Not that those two things necessarily have anything to do with each other. She occasionally visits Philadelphia, and we either do a shoot or do lunch at Harmony, the vegetarian restaurant up the street. Ether comes across as a very natural hippie chick in person, but actually has quite a few intense fetishes. We've done a couple of suspension shoots, which she loves. She used to be a cutter- that's what the marks on her legs are.

Iris & Devorah

Wax on, wax off...

Jade Vixen

If In the Mood for Love was a little more fetish oriented...

Amaya

Before & After.

Percolate

A close up and a pan out. There is often more to something than meets the eye. Sometimes a lot more...

Miera

An older image, which is why she is missing quite a few tattoos...

Percolate & Autumn

Ninja-Hump: When one comes up behind someone and clandestinely humps them for a short period of time, and disappears before the humpee knows what has happened... Like a ninja.

Adrian Louise

Two heads are better than one.

PXE

Breaking in a new strap-on.

Jade Vixen

I was tempted to Photoshop the armpit, but I resisted. Even after all these years, I'm still trying to figure out what should be left in and what should be touched-up.

Katie Marie

One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one.   ~Simone De Beauvoir

Lyndsay

Twister. Yeah, the twister comes, here comes the twister...

Maggie

She comes from a land down under... where women glow and men plunder.

Sofia & Cammy

One of my favorite 'tricks' are nudes that I can shape, contort, bend and light into abstract shapes. I love it when the viewer's eye must explore the shapes, highlights, and shadows... and barely notice the nudity. Nudity is just the canvas, secondary to the composition and impact of the photograph. I want the eye to dance around the image, exploring the tonalities and elegant lines of the image. Making the image B&W get's rid of the flesh tone, and completes the transformation...

Izzy

Rope bra, a bit tight.

Mië

I am Doll eyes, Doll mouth, Doll legs, I am Doll arms... 

Ajaye

"Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar."   ~Helmut Newton