New Photos: Lewd Alfred Douglas

A few months ago I had the pleasure of meeting two amazing fellas, on their visit to London. 

Fyodor Pavlov and Lawrence Gullo are an incredibly talented couple from New York. Both of them are artists (and we commissioned some drawings of The Roustabouts from Fyodor) that have collaborated on a marvelous comic, among other projects. To say their work is an inspiration to me is an understatement ;)

Lawrence also performs boylesque under the name Lewd Alfred Douglas, with some historically-rich and varied acts. He asked if we would be able to arrange a quick shoot while he was back in London, which I was very happy to do!

Love Bomb 2013: Love Letters

You may remember last year I shot this campaign for the first Independent Lingerie Brands Love Bomb. Well, we did it again, on a slightly smaller scale (with 8 brands rather than 10) but with just as awesome prizes.

I shot the images a few weeks ago, which have now all been released. You have until tomorrow to enter to win each prize from each brand, so make sure you take a look at how to enter here! 

Model is Miss Miranda

Fabulous hats are by Lily Lewis

 

Hat by Lily Lewis, Bra and brief by Playful Promises, Waspie by Velda Lauder, Suspender belt by Kiss Me Deadly.

Hat by Lily Lewis, Lingerie by Fraulein Annie

Bra and brief by Kriss Soonik, Waspie by Playful Promises, Suspender belt by Kiss Me Deadly

Gown by Ayten Gasson

Bra and brief by Miss Mandalay, Girdle by Kiss Me Deadly

Hat by Lily Lewis, swimsuit by Paolita

What do you think?

2012 Through The Lens

When I look back through my 2012 portfolio, I feel, perhaps for the first time, that my photography has improved throughout the year.

I shot 5 commercial lookbooks (two for clothing, one swimwear, one lingerie and one unreleased lingerie) plus the Love Bomb independent brand campaign.

Two of my favourite lookbook shots. Left: (Shot in November) Miss Miranda modelling one of the design competition winning entries for PP. Right: (Shot in November) Chantal modelling the Playful Promises AW13 collection.

The Love Bomb Campaign featured 10 independent UK lingerie/swimwear/accessory designers and was designed to raise awareness for KICK-ASS indie brands. We were shortlisted for the "Marketing Campaign" UK Lingerie Award, up against two mega-brands with buckets of cash to spend on their campaigns. I'd say that's pretty awesome.

I'm incredibly lucky in my job for Playful Promises to be able to work on creative projects too!

Top: Halloween mini-campaign featuring Anita de Bauch and Dexter. Left: Leah Debrincat as Cleopatra for one of our online magazine features. Right: Miss Miranda inspired by John Willie/Bizarre Magazine of the 1950s for a blog post.

I also took on the lookbook for a more risque brand, Fabulously Fetish, a kinky shoe/boot company. This was a tough, 9 hour long shoot, but I do feel like it's one of the best I've ever produced. 

Yeah, I've worked with Miss Miranda a lot <3 

I've worked with some amazing creative people on collaborative projects, including Amerlia Arsenic.

It's interesting to see how other people edit the shots I take! Love how Amelia has done this!

As well as some of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful burlesque artists.

Marianne Cheesecake and Vicky Butterfly. As intelligent and inspiring as they are beautiful!

I've also taken a fair share of self portraits (though, not as many as a few years ago!)

I'm pretty happy with what I've produced this year. Fingers crossed, next year I have the time to create even more!

For the past few months, excluding lookbook work, I haven't been working on my photography as much as I would have liked. DJing has taken up a lot of my time, with photography taking a back seat while I learn and perform. There's a lot I want to learn and do in 2013. Let's see.

Playful Promises SS13: Paradise

2 more sets of images have been released from Playful Promises, which I shot back in the Summer!

Better yet, all of these items are available now (just click through to go to the PP website).

Model: Miss Miranda

MUA: Cheyenne Raymond

We also shot the swimwear in our studio.

Model: Hayley @ IMM

MUA: Cheyenne Raymond

Hair stylist: Ceri Cushen

Playful Promises Design Competition Results

One of the things I love about my job is being able to watch lingerie being created.... from initial sketchy design through to CAD, to first sample through to final piece! Then I get the joy of photographing them!

In December last year, Playful Promises had run a design competition which would allow one budding lingerie designer the chance to see their design created (a pretty awesome thing to put on their CV!). After a facebook vote, Emma, the brand director still had a tough choice narrowing down to just one design. So she thought, fuck it, let's do three of them. 

You can take a look at the final CADs here, and how they work so well as a mini-collection!

Last week, when shooting the PP AW13 collection we took an hour out to quickly shoot these with Miss Miranda. 

I'm pretty chuffed with these photos too! What do you think?