Baron Anastis

Hello, thank for taking the time to read this. My name is Anastis, sometimes known as 'The Baron', hence Baron Anastis. My father was a hobby photographer and it is through him that I  had my first photographic experiences. I loved his work and I thought of him as super talented, from his work I developed a real interest in photography and started shooting photos when I was 17 years old. My father was an old school photographer and to this very day I still use his analogue camera  I, like my father, once tried the transition to digital but I find myself drawn to the very particular value, character, and respect that shooting on film has to offer.

I know that I am a very artistic and creative person because I am also a professional musician and a model. I know that I love and appreciate other cultures and societies because I love to travel. I travel often for my work.

I like to think of myself as an assistant to the best psychologist in the world. The psychologist hired me for the purposes of pre-therapeutic work. What that psychologist needs is for me is to remove all the damage that society has inflicted on the person in front of my camera so that she can begin her therapeutic work. I need the model to regress into authenticity.  I need them to trust me enough the become as vulnerable as they were the day society told them that vulnerability is unacceptable, as vulnerable as the day they were born? I need them to remove what they have been told is the truth and find their own truth. This is what I want my models to understand: the body is metaphor of societal rules and expectations. Fashion, beauty, sexuality and gender are social constructions. I long to capture the  most natural you that you can be and tell me who that is, that is where real therapy begins.