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...The slick shine of his latex is so immaculately lit that the photos seem almost wet, and his muse stretches and sprawls in her skin-tight glossy colors with such glamour and grace that the resulting art is exquisitely polished in every way... More »
The disturbing, creative vision of Wisconsin artist Matt Lombard seems to touch a direct nerve to our darkest dreams. The work is powerful, surreal, terrifying, seductive, haunting and memorable, all signs of highly effective and beautiful art. We spoke with Lombard about his creative concepts, music, and the Midwest. More »
A photographer always offers a secret, voyeuristic thrill to the viewers of his or her artistic product, but aliased artist Wolf189 elevates the private, sensual moments of his models to extreme voyeuristic levels. The viewer often gets the feeling that not even the photographer was in the room. His skillful composition, framing and lighting capture naturally intimate images that reveal the sadness and desires we all hold inside. More »
The precision of imagery in Benjamin Furland's art is immediately apparent in each of his photos. Every detail -- from makeup, to fashion, to pose, to lighting -- is meticulously played out to vibrant ends. Whether they're delicately glamorous women of golden eras or colorful playthings in fantasy worlds, his models are elevated to a status of mythical beauty. We spoke with the Argentinean photographer about his concepts, process and work ethic. More »
Iconic French photographer Dahmane feels a natural connection between urban landscape and nudes. The lines, shadows and form of his exquisite architectural and cityscape work make for a perfect match with the sensual beauty of his Parisian models in his definitive photo montages. More »
Viewing the silver torsos photographed by Italian photographer Guido Argentini can feel like sneaking into a secret. The seductive statues are frozen in their fluidity, cast in their eroticism for eternity, and Argentini's other series have the same powerfully silent motion. The female form is part of the landscape, private erotic moments are voyeuristically captured in boudoirs, perfect hands and lips are quietly pulsing. We spoke with Argentini about the evolution of his female form. More »
French fashion photographer Andy Julia has extracted the high class, antique sensuality from centuries-worth of art and combined it with his modern day urban fashionistas to produce riveting images. His photos are so glamorously vacant and edgy that it's easy to slip through the looking glass into the sexual secrets of his models. We spoke with Julia about the passions and fashions of his modern day and lost eras. More »
Tiny Dragon Productions is a digital effects powerhouse of one. TDP, aka Krista Benson, brings to life creative visions of fantasy, sci-fi, eroticism, comics, and anime to produce richly textured images that traverse the planes of reality, imagination and dreamscape. We spoke with Benson about her work on Hollywood's blockbuster films by day and her enchanting fantasy world by night. More »
The quirky personalities of Miss Red's models thrust from their mischievous gazes amidst a torrent of color and costume. Red creates an adult wonderland with her lens, a world of fantastically hued sets and kittenish characters. The draw is not simply the playfully gorgeous Parisian muses, but also the universe in which they frolic. We spoke with Red about the chromatic alt-reality she so imaginatively creates. More »
There's an electric sexuality that leaps from the images of Chicago photographer Johnny Flamethrower. Women stretch in their bindings and writhe in bridled anticipation while clean light and deep color dance freely around them. Sharp stilettos and fishnets are juxtaposed with ball gags and leashes, but whether his models are dominating or in submission, the hunger of their eyes makes clear that they are in a position of power. We spoke with Flamethrower about real fetish vs. the fad of fetish, what turns him on, and the true intention of his art. More »
Italian photographer Paul Banner is at his best in an empty room at dusk. There, he shoots blazing images of a temptress electrified with eroticism and shrouded in shadows. We rarely see her face, but her limber body tells us everything. We spoke with Paul through poor translation to see what drives him to paint lust with light. More »
The point of view expressed by Alva Bernadine through his art is equal parts fascinating, surprising, humorous and downright freaky. Brilliantly playing with light, mirrors and stop-motion, he unites the disembodied shells of his models with the everyday world, creating the "anti-portrait" in his surrealist world. We spoke with Bernadine about the male gaze, religion and a juxtaposed world. More »
NYC photographer Nikola Tamindzic knows a good party. Not only that, but he seems to attend every hot and sexy event in New York City, which is clearly no small feat. Whether he's bumping elbows with the stars or hanging out with all the "naked-on-a-school-night hipsters" in town, he somehow captures the beautiful underworld's intimate nightlife with vibrant color and sensually wicked candor. We spoke with Nikola about being in the heart of the city's parties and shooting an immense and awesome portfolio along the way. More » The
images that emerge from the camera of San Francisco photographer
Aaron Hawks offer more than just glamour, beauty or eroticism.
They traverse the barrier between artist and viewer to pierce
us with loneliness, haunt us with forgotten nightmares,
and melt away all constructs of reality. Within his fabricated
sets of broken furniture and peeling wallpaper, the model
and photographer achieve a comfort level that allows them
to transcend traditional vision or being; we instead enter
a seductively dark dimension that somehow seems to be more
honest. More »
The
visions of Nelly Recchia are as shocking, mournful and complex
as the work she ultimately creates. Technically, this French-Italian
artist is a body painter, but the title doesn't truly capture
her role, skill or dark imagination. Recchia transforms
her models into haunting visions of pained puppets through
transcendent makeup, lighting, poses and photographs. She
spoke with us about the theory of beauty, the media's role
in it and the metamorphosis of her human canvases. More »
There's
an unnerving darkness in the artwork of Jeffery Scott. Inspiration
he draws from the beauty of women is not morphed into a
sexy, idyllic world flush with rosy flirtations. Instead,
Scott's art rattles the viewer with piercing commentaries
on beauty, relationships and humanity, exposing our universal
cruelties and grotesque inner mechanisms. Holding a fun-house
mirror up to our carefully constructed realities, he forces
us to question which side is real. Scott spoke with us about
his inspirations, nightmares and artistic evolution. More »
The
subjects of fashion and fetish photographer Nadya Lev's
photographs possess haunting gazes and wear costumes telling
bizarre tales. They rise up starkly in sharp lighting, arresting
and captivating the viewer with something erotic though
distant, something delicious though hollow, something solitary
and something riveting. More
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The
photographs of Brighton artist Antone Pavlov are immediately
recognizable. Sepia toned and starkly set, his only muse,
Molly, stands or sits clad in a corset, stockings or nothing
at all. Her skeletal frame draws our line of vision up the
jutting figure to meet her huge haunting eyes... eyes that
are impossible to read. They are at once dead and pleading,
empty and curious. She's a model, a doll, a corpse, a sex
object, a hunger, a figurine, a need and a fantasy. We spoke
with Pavlov about his obsession with creating surreal art
with a living puppet. More »
The
dark, post-apocalyptic worlds of Dutch photographer Sander
Steins often place seemingly omniscient women in the calm
eye of disaster. Steins' combination of disturbing visions,
masterful digital retouching, unique fashions and haunting
lighting have created a netherworld he predicts we have
earned as a human race. We spoke with Steins about art,
hope and humanity. More »
Preeminent
fetish photographer Christine Kessler lives and loves her
perversions -- everything from "challenging Shibari bondage
to hot chicks in latex or super-tight corsets." On MyFetishDiary.com,
she not only offers hundreds of deliciously perverse photo
sets, but she includes personal accounts of why, exactly,
each shoot was even hotter than you can imagine. The result
is a nuanced combination of stunning graphic content, enticingly
foxy chicks, and personal emotion rarely acknowledged within
the pages of even the sexiest erotic sites. More »
Icarus
as a trapeze artist, Christ blowing blood-bubbles through
the holes in his or her hands, Ophelia about to dive into
a cup of water, Joan of Arc as a fire breather... the icons
have certainly fallen into a dark and deviant underground
carnival in the mind of Toby Slater-Hunt. The British photographer
has been shooting his brilliantly twisted and mesmerizing
series Iconival for almost two years now. Toby took some
time to speak with us about his life in the circus. More »
Cloaked
in shadows with occasional sparks of color, the subjects
of River Clark's photographs pop from their surroundings
with vivid, shocking beauty. Clark's uncanny ability to
seize the viewer with subtlety exemplifies why he's one
of the most sought after fashion and beauty photographers
today. More »
Houston
based photographer Lithium Picnic shoots powerful fashion,
fetish and conceptual pieces. Whether it's a magazine supermodel
or a dark and funky Suicide
Girl, his images are meticulously lit, set and framed,
presenting more than a pretty face. Sometimes quietly harrowing
and other times brimming with electric energy, they shock
the viewer with something beyond beauty. More »
LA
photographer Emma Wilcox is fresh on the fetish art scene,
and her unique attitude coupled with a female perspective
produce seductive yet strong pieces. Her surreal vision
of the world simultaneously beckons and unnerves the viewer,
resulting in powerful art. Emma spoke with us about her
connection with the fetish world and subtle appreciation
of smog. More »
When
Playboy model Lisa Boyle stepped behind the camera to begin
shooting her own electrifying erotic images, she took the
phrase "more than just a pretty face" to a whole new level.
The modest, down-to-earth Boyle is driven, passionate and
gifted at creating her intoxicatingly sexy photos. We spoke
with Lisa about the twists in both her career and ambitions
that led her to be one of the hottest photographers in the
world today. Literally More »
Against
a stark studio backdrop and stripped of color (and often
clothing), NYC photographer Joshua Rubin's models animate
and electrify his images with their facial and body expressions
alone. Devoid of traditional "seduction," his
latest black and white series on sex industry workers and
burlesque performers offers a fascinating look into the
human, quirky spirits of his subjects. More »
Photographer
Burke Heffner loves telling stories in his stills, and the
women he captures offer inticate and vibrant mosaics. Vintage
mod vixens often play his muses, whether they're fresh-faced
and bathed in white studio light or covered in mud and crumpled
in a car trunk. The viewer is often left with a hungry curiosity,
piecing together the plot of his prismatic, silent movie.
Luckily, Heffner is also a filmmaker, so we occasionally
get to glimpse the portrait's full story. More »
Computer
illustrator Tsubasa combines reality and fantasy to create
powerful images that evoke an immediate and complex reaction
from the viewer. Pushing us to walk the line between desire
and tantalizing fear, his art is incredibly rich and compelling,
and it remains with the viewer long after we've looked away. More »
Erotic
photographer Steve Diet Goedde has a discipline and integrity
in his camera work that is unique in the fetish world. The
artistry comes from his vision, and the camera is merely
a conduit. The result of a shoot is often a single roll
of black and white film with 16 striking, finalized shots
that will be neither cropped nor digitally manipulated.
We see the scene as he has, and it has produced a candid,
honest, intimate discourse between artist, model and viewer. More »
German
erotic photographer Arne Jahn explores the mysterious abyss
of dark desire with his camera. His images of dominance,
lust and pain are rich, eerie and complex. There are no
victims, just secrets and longing. More »
French
photographer Eric Martin creates surreal, futuristic landscapes
using beautiful women and darkly imaginative fashion designers.
He spoke with us about his influences and creative process. More »
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Feisty
little hottie Tila Tequila has led a roller-coaster life
of longing, lusting and laughing. Her Vietnamese family gave
birth to her in Singapore and emigrated to the US when she
was about 2 years old. "So naturally I was raised as
a little American Hellcat in the suburbs of Houston,"
she jokes. The self-proclaimed hellcat was discovered at the
mall in Houston, Texas when she was 18 by a Playboy scout.
She then turned her blazing attitude and southern charm into
a new smart and sultry persona. More »
It's
no coincidence that burlesque has enjoyed a huge revival over
the last decade while at the same time, porcelain pinup model
and performer Dita Von Teese has shattered all burlesque boundaries
to achieve Super Diva status. No one is more responsible for
the return and redefinition of the old-school strip tease
than this seductive dancer -- nor is anyone more worthy of
being burlesque's pinup poster girl.
"It's about
ambition, and the people that have it go places," the spirited
Von Teese once said, "while the people that don't complain
about people who are successful." There's no question in anybody's
mind that she has it! Dita is known in the industry as a smart
business woman, and throughout her career, she has maintained
meticulous control over her style, photos and website. The
result is an expansive, creative, incomparable collection
of lingerie, fetish and artistic nude photos in addition to
a bio that includes performances for dozens of the world's
biggest celebrities. Everyone wants Dita. More »
French
Canadian latex superstar Bianca Beauchamp is well known in
the fetish circuit from gracing the covers of magazines like Skin Two and Playboy Lingerie, headlining
the world's most prominent fetish balls, and making us melt
in her two major websites, LatexLair.com and BiancaBeauchamp.com.
And who wouldn't want to see this little lady in a catsuit?
"I feel very sexy when I wear latex," Beauchamp
purrs in her French accent, "it makes me feel that my
body is perfect." Even when she's not in a catsuit, her
body looks perfect. Her personal site offers "heart warming
photos" that prove she is equally sexy and seductive
while wearing innocent sun hats, playing in balloons, laughing
in the sand or taking a dip in a pastel, flowered bikini.
No wonder she's up for Playboy's Model of the Year. More »
It
seems like the beautiful figure of Masuimi Max in her bright,
tight, slick and sexy outfits is everywhere we look these
days. The half-Korean, half-German beauty has modeled for
almost every major fetish photographer out there, she's spokesmodeled
for numerous clothing companies and fetish events, she's in
almost every fetish magazine published these days and her
smokin' body is all over the internet.
And we're not complaining! This gun slingin', tattoo covered
troublemaker is driven, talented and super fine. More
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Fetish
model Emily Marilyn is a latex superstar. In between suiting
up (and sometimes disrobing) regularly for the premiere names
in erotic photography, she travels the world over to star
in the biggest fetish events.
Her website is packed full of all the down and dirty visual
details from her escapades. In over 300 galleries, she adopts
dozens of personas; she's everything from a villainous, playful
latex lady to a bitchy dominatrix to a struggling submissive
to a soft and sultry lingerie supermodel. More »
Buck Angel is one hot guy. Covered in tattoos and bulging
with muscles, when he's staring sternly or longingly into
the camera you can't decide whether you're scared of him,
turned on or both. And that's just the beginning of the confusion. More »
German
born glamour, fetish and erotic model Tall Goddess (aka Lorraine)
lives up to her name. This sensual, leggy blonde measures
in at 6' 1" (185 cm) in bare feet. She has traveled the
globe performing on runways, modeling in magazines, directing
her own erotica and generally looking super-fine.
Her website is no slouch either. She offers over 15,000 pictures
and video clips, including 7,000 steamy nude photos shot from
all over Asia, Europe and the US. There are sections dedicated
purely to reveling in her height, watching her lush lips suck
on a ciggie, checking out those fine, fair feet, and lounging
with her lengthy legs. More »
The
piercing, pale blue eyes peering out from Rubberella's slick,
tight latex mask are rarely pleading. Instead, this Gwen Media
gal suits up like a superhero and dominates any scene with
a seductive, siren-like gaze that commands your willing submission.
Mistress of an enormous online lair and slated to be host
of the German Fetish Ball for 2006, the "fetish queen of an
indigent world" took some time to discuss her rubber reality
with us. More »
Jami
Deadly, a retro tease from Texas, is the epitome of a glamorous,
jaw-dropping bombshell. She combines the roles of horror hostess,
burlesque performer and Marilyn impersonator into a boundary-shattering
package with some deadly curves. More
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The
small and mighty Apnea can appear soft, sensual and seductive
as effortlessly as she can pull off a bad ass eat-shit look.
In both cases, her eyes are always piercing and cavernous,
and her form is tiny perfection. We are drawn to her, tempted
by her and scared of her all at once. More »
Fresh
Dallas fetish model Angela Ryan is quickly making her mark
on the scene. Her classic visage and smooth porcelain skin
juxtaposed with fiery hair and a quirky attitude make her
an enigma more than anything else. This is, of course, why
we like her. More »
Ariel
X has recently burst on the internet scene, but her lack of
"experience" isn't what's drawing in the crowds.
This all natural diva lives a comic book character's life,
changing out of her whip-smart computer good girl outfits
each day into some smooth and sultry skin under evening's
dimmed lights. Ariel's raw attitude peers through her striking
features, and, even at her most innocent, it's clear she's
a white-hot tiger. She let us in on the secret life of a girl
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Since the advent of photography, the sensual female form has been presented to excess in classically soft black and white portraits. However, Russian erotic photographer Alexey Nikishin reinvents the art form along with the archetypal female figure itself. Nikisin's ethereal models all possess a candid modesty, as if their ego has been shed during their various states of undress. The finished photographs present an honesty that elevates the seductive grace of these beauties to angelic levels. We spoke with Nikishin through our very poor Russian, and he graciously responded. More »
LA
based photographer Octavio empties the crazy cool contents
of his head into surreal dreamscapes filled with beautiful
women. Then he takes bad ass photos of it. Though he professes
it's all about cussing, drinking and pussy, I've gotta insist
there's more art there than he's willing to take credit
for. The rich vibrancy with which his ideas are portrayed
is even more striking than the Hotness Factor... though
admittedly, that factor is pretty high too. Octavio took
some time from drinking bourbon while getting a lap dance
to talk to us about his rock and roll lifestyle. More »
French-born
London photographer Hyperion has a knack for finding models
who carry obscure inner darkness. He then styles them to the
hilt, picks up his analogue camera and captures their inner
complexity in perfect unison with their outer creativity.
We spoke with him about the riddles of life and how fetish
fits into his ultimate fate. More »
German
artist Katja Ehrhardt began designing her suberb fetish fashions
by chance, and her independent nature and versatile creativity
led her to start shooting fashion photography in an equally
fateful way. Now she's one of the top latex designers in Germany,
but her visionary photography of her own fashions has also
landed her as one of the top fetish photographers. We spoke
with Katja about her one-woman fetish fashion empire. More »
Somewhere
between light and shadow, between water, surface and space,
between dreamscape and dance lies the artistic vision of
Czech photographer Libor Spacek. The sensual figures within
his art are recognizable, but their surrounding elements
are less clear. The women seem to float in a timeless twilight
above fragmented pools of their own reflections, and they
are at once both intriguing and alluring. We spoke with
Spacek about life under the waters of Prague. More »
The
images of Stephen McClure are jarring, and they linger in
our rattled brains long after we've stopped looking. The
hollow, robotic emotions of his models combined with the
timelessness of his empty sets echo with alienation, mortality
and the terror of apathy. If the goal of art is to evoke
thought, feeling and emotion in the viewer, McClure is truly
gifted. More »
The
intense costumes, make-up, lighting, colors and characters
in the art of SF photographer Blioux result in piercing,
fierce and mesmerizing pieces. She spoke with us about her
process, philosophy and fashion sense. More »
The
girls in David Perry's "Truckers Lounge" are lazing
in motel rooms while chatting on the phone, cleaning small
dirty kitchens, rolling around in old cars, stretching on
dark, thick rugs and making their sexy little ways in what
feels like a filthy world. They hold flasks, guns, knives
and lollipops in their tattooed hands. They're hot and looking
for trouble. More »
Through
both his erotic nudes and his fetish images, the art of
photographer Sean McCall reaches beyond the pretty picture.
He skillfully and successfully captures moments of truth
in his models, revealing both their psyches and his own.
McCall spoke with us about the beautiful women he's worked
with and what it takes to elevate his art. More »
Fetishnation.com creator and photographer Ian Rath captures extraordinary
beauty, details, contrast and emotion in his dark fetish
and bondage photography. More »
The
sci-fi women of Austrian illustrator Chio Maisriml's imagination
live with tails, horns and impossible shoes. He morphs ladies
and animals into futuristic, powerful, sexy characters who
lure you into their fantastic dreamscape. "It's not
me who produces the fantasies. I'm just the one who reflects
them, but what you see is in your head." More »
French
Candian photographer Martin Perreault is one of the premiere
fetish photographers in the industry. Through the elaborate
shoots with his lover Bianca Beauchamp on their website,
they turn many of their latex fantasies into reality. Perreault
took some time to speak with us about latex and love. More
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Kelly
Michael Charles Lind has always been driven, creative and
successful, whether he's running a stripping service, designing
websites or roller blading. His true niche, however, is
shooting striking, intriguing and beautiful photographs.
We talked to him about his past, present and process. More »
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van de Scheck
Perry
Gallagher
Adrian
Buckmaster
Rik
Garrett
Mark Bennett
Maria Coletsis
Nathan Strausse
Kathleen Elizabeth
Mallorie Nasrallah
Knut
Ehret
Marco Tenaglia
Tina
McClelland
Robyn
Martin
Pelzer
Beatrice Neumann
Amy
Rivera
Collin
Rae
Russell
Coleman
Dan
Doyle
Shannon Brooke
Eddie
Ostrowski
Jim
Groves
Danielle
Emerick
Dave
Naz
Justice
Howard
Michael
Manning
Craig
Scoffone
Tommy
Edwards
Luis
Durante
Markus
Richter
Michael
Andrews
Nicola
Rindaldi
Sandra
Chang
Tom
Porta
Alexander
Paulin
Saryn
Angel
Lochai
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Dietrich
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Santillo
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