Valkyrie In Chains

Val is a local artist and sometimes model here in the Bay Area. I’d been following her work for some time. We finally got it together to collaborate on some tintypes one weekend during the Covid lockdown. I think she’s the first person I took the chance of working with during social distancing. I feel its fairly safe to live limited one on one interactions if everyone is following CDC guidelines as they move about the their lives. Click through to see the rest of the tintypes we shot that day as well as a good number of digital images we captured in an empty unit in my building. Val’s Instagram can be found here if it hasn’t been removed. She likes to push boundaries: valkyrie in chains As always, the original tins are for sale. Enquire here. Click thru to see it all

Olivia Preston

Olivia is a traveling model from Canada and one time Playboy Cyber Girl of the Year, 2018. I caught her on a West Coast trip and we spent the day shooting tintypes and a bunch of digital imagery. A neighbor friend of mine, with impeccable style let us shoot in her space. Gorgeous and sun filled. Lots of backlight. My favorite.

Click through to view the entire set of 140 images plus tintypes. The original tintypes are available for sale. Drop me a line for more info.

Meet Floofie

In times past, I’d venture up to the Pacific Northwest for a couple weeks for the 4th of July. Really prime time up there. Gorgeous weather. Super stereotypical American summer. Fireworks, long days, heat waves, everything in bloom. Really is one of my favorite parts of the country. While up one year, I reached out to Floofie. We were both making content for Zivity at the time. She was a prolific art model working out of Portland. We met in a small town in Washington and spent the day shooting on the river. This was our first set of the day. Click thru to see the rest. You can peep her Instagram here

Kam. September, 1975

I’ve known Kitty for a long time. This was I think our second or third shoot together. All on Polaroid Spectra film. No longer available. Perfectly picks up that gritty 70’s vibe. The Polaroid may not have been invented as a way to take dirty pictures, but that ability certainly led in part to its dominance in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The ability to document your lovers without running a roll of film down to Suzy at the local FotoMat to develop. Hop on Kitty’s Instagram here if you’re so inclined. I’ve got a good number of sets of her to post in the coming days. They’re a bit more saucy than these. . . You’ve been warned.

Nevaeh

Rosie was a traveling model from Southern California that came through for a half day of shooting. This I think was one of three that day. Click through for more. . . It was an unusually dark and rainy day for Northern California. This set is lit by a huge sliding glass door just camera right. The gray sky and big window made for a beautiful soft light.

Lauren WK, Set 1

I photographed Lauren WK for Zivity back in 2011 at LeftSpace Studios in San Francisco. I had become assistant to and friends with the proprietor, RJ Muna, and had convinced him to let me shoot after hours. It was just Lauren and I in this enormous rental studio, with all the lighting and equipment I could ever want. I felt like a boss! Click through to view the complete set of 40 images. We shot two more sets that night that will be showing up here sometime in the future. Wow, ten years ago. I think I discovered her on Tumblr. Damn I miss the heyday of Tumblr and the era of the “alt model” She’s still modeling, still looks amazing, she’s aged much better than I have. Check out her Insta here.