My working hours are currently very reduced due to ^^ the above ? . I still welcome all enquiries, however, my response may not be as instant as usual. I will return to full-time work in September. Many thanks for your understanding and, to my current clients – who are very dear to me – thank you for your patience!
Rachel May
Two great projects that have kept me busy over the last 6 months are the new look websites for, the well-loved London fetish events; Club Subversion and London Alternative Market.
Club Subversion has been a favourite club for the London scene since it first opened its doors some 10 years ago. Mistress Absolute came to me asking for a fresh new design along with a system that she could easily updated herself. It seemed natural that the lovely Bobette‘s photography should be showcased and rightly so as having such great imagery to choose from made the design work so much easier for me. Thanks to both Mistress Absolute and Bobette for choosing to work with me. xx
London is lucky to have such a wide selection of alternative shops and club and London Alternative Market successfully manages to combine those two in the one place, once a month. Their website was in dire need of a re-haul not only to make it easier for the organisers to update themselves, but for site visitors to navigate their way around more easily, and also to showcase the monthly vendors who exhibit their wares. We added a directory, an event calendar and have started to work on the social media aspect too.
Prelude: These images are subject to copyright and you do not have permission to use them ANYWHERE without written approval. I have a contact form and you are welcome to send me a message with regards anything on this website.
In Sydney Australia, December 2012, I had the opportunity to meet and photograph _Charlie_ and candiflip, a couple that I’d met through the great website that is Fetlife.com. Our worlds originally collided when Candiflip commented on one of my self-portraits. This led to further correspondence, a discovery of common interests, some real life parallels and finally, the exchange of ideas which evolved into the creation of this series of images based on the Leda and the Swan myth (wiki ref)
We travelled by ferry to Little Jibbon, a semi-nudist spot on the southern Sydney coast and there they decorated and dressed themselves in feathers and latex and latex hoods and eventually blood and bruises after Charlie went to work on Flip with sharp and stingy things – piercing, cutting, whipping. They exposed themselves to us and the world, literally, and in doing so allowed me to create some truly beautiful photos.
I might expand on all this later, but for now, I’ll just say that I am grateful to have had the opportunity to capture them at play, because I know it can be an intensely deep and personal thing (especially in front of people you don’t know!). And, here they are:
This is a brand new project, a joint effort between your Fetish WebMistress and Madame Caramel. We hope to become one of the best and most useful Mistress Directories on the internet.
There are alot of directories online, it’s true. I’m not a professional dominatrix so I can’t really comment on the treatment some ladies feel has been unjust and exploitative. All I can hope is that the directory that I am involved in goes so far as to offer all that we promise, and more. You can see it here: MistressDirectoryLondon.com
BIG THANKS to my mate Red who designed the logo. If you are interested in brand design and development contact me for more info on this new service that we will be offering very soon.
Have realised that I am addicted to art. I need a hit quite regularly, of really good, intense, well executed art and preferably of an erotic nature, and if I don’t get, it leads to a kind of despair. Happily, Paris Photo this year at the Grand Palais, was an art addict’s paradise and I walked through the exhibition feeling quite dizzy, floating a little above cloud 9, and still felt the affect some days after. My companion Oscar David only added to this, with his consistently challenging commentary, and equally passionate attitude for the photography on display. We discovered a number of our favourite artists and some of those included: Giles Berquet‘s stylistic representations of women and their heavy, steady streams of piss, frozen in time with the use of the traditional gelatin silver process. Nice to see analog is gaining even more value as an artistic genre in the age of digital media.
Nobuyoshi Araki, of course was there, and represented by a large mural work, seemingly destroyed with random brightly coloured paint splashes, shapes and smudges – not ruining though, but adding textural and motional elements and creating the impression of a layered vivid stained glass window which one must peer through, to witness the typical Arakian themes of bound women.
(Section of) Kinbaku Shamaki, Japan 2006 © Araki
I discovered the work of the Viennese Actionists, from the mid 60s – 70s, which is a movement considered amongst the neo-avant gardists. Rudolf Schwarzkogler was a performance artist, staging scenes and events – actions – that were captured on film, and which were then printed/collaged/destroyed/reworked and exhibited. The final product as important as the process and sequence of events recorded. Indeed his art is both conceptual photography as well as performance art and has been considered an important cross-over point in which photography gained much credit as an art form also. I’m less interested in what he was depicting in his actions rather more fascinated by the process and result. I will definitely be reading in depth the lovely catalogue they gave us.
TBC
Opie
Lynch
American contemporary and fashion photographer. Newton, Ritts.
Some other blogs about Paris Photo 2012
http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/events/2011/november/03/araki-scatters-petals-at-paris-photo/
http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/archives/by_date/2012-11-18/9411/paris-photo-the-diary-of-carine-dolek
http://www.liberation.fr/culture/1101182-zoom-sur-paris-photo#s1