TFW you’re shooting with Tiffany Helms in Philadelphia and things get weird. I was on a work trip/shoot in Pennsylvania and decided to extend for a few days in order to shoot with some models I’d become aware of. Philadelphia for some reason was a small hub for alt models and photographers back in the day. Maybe it was the availability of unique abandoned spaces or just the industrial diaspora that seemed to be everywhere. Grit. Tiffany was the second girl I shot with on that trip. She’s my favorite kind of model to shoot with. Not overly concerned about perfection or standards of beauty. A true art model. It seems that in the years since, she’s developed quite the career as a bubble gum model. Yeah, but no. Its exactly what it sounds like. Check her out: https://www.tiffanyhelmsbubblegum.com Whatever floats your boat. Or bursts your bubble. Anyway she’s wonderful and I would love to work with her again. Bubblegum or no. Oh back to Philly, it does seem like many of the foundational models and photographers from the East Coast have migrated to the North West. The best coast. Legal weed. Liberal attitudes. Keeping it weird. No cheesesteaks in Portland tho. I mean, not really. I need to go back if just for that.
