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I'm a female photographer located in California. But right now I'm doing a great deal of travel up and down the West Coast.
In one sense I am your basic retro glamour, portrait, street photographer, whatever those categories really mean. In the other sense, my work is comprised of rather eclectic components that come together to explore what I call emotional and spiritual narrative.
Dreams are very real to me and I see them even awake. My work is an attempt to capture my dreamtime. I am inspired by classic imagery of Weston and Cunningham, abstract work of Paul Strand, the glamour of Jeanloup Sieff, the fashion work of Dominique Issermann, and the street photography of Henri Cartier Bresson. Mix in with that my hippie (which explains my trippy dreamy color work) and goth and gothic (yeah both) aesthetic and my additional interests that range into fetish, retro and burlesque and that probably explains my work that is somewhat dark and/or mysterious rather than high-key and overt.
Please do not adjust your monitor settings. the colors you see in my portfolio are wild and intentional. the dark and moody feel to the black and whites, is the result of trying to capture available darkness and not due to a failing flash unit!
The work in this portfolio is approximately 75% shot on old school film. The strange color you see often starts off with a combination of color gels and/or cross processing. Some of the color work is actually handcolored BW prints. I work alot with infrared black and white and high speed BW film.
I'm pretty picky about who I work with, I work alot with friends because it allows an intimacy that is hard to get between strangers. I am interested in working with new people, the projects we might word on depend on how we mesh.
I am not against TFP but note that my time is increasingly limited and so I might not be able to take on as many TFP projects as I did in the past. Nevertheless, you are welcome to contact me for potential TFP or paid work and we can see if our schedules mesh.
The TFP projects I'm looking for models for:
My take on classic Hollywood Glamour: Think George Hurrell but my interepretation, think Hurrell on acid.
Retro/Pinup: both classic and modern takes on the genre
Dreamworlds: Artistic work that is conceptual in nature. Look at my portfolio and you get an idea of the look and feel that I am working in/from.
