Featured Work
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Trick or Treat #1 by min7209
A Boy dressed up as Power Ranger at Halloween day night .
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End of the road? by Ian James
Shot on a motorway bridge in Birmingham UK using a Nikon D80 with an 18-70mm lense and a remotely fired flash gun. The exposure was about a 30ish seconds maybe more.
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Obvious Fetish by Rebecca MacNaughton
I dig shoes. I have many. Yes. I have a fetish. So blow me.
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The Witching Hour by Alf Caruana
Model: The stunning Miss Ava Jinx / MUA: the very talented Ruby Rouge
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Georgie IX by Kai-Marie Williams
model: georgie / mua/hair: emma thorn (featured in the group-theatrical and staged photography)
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Cri-Cry-Grito by Daniela M. Casalla
“El silencio es la piel, el silencio cubre y cobija la enfermedad. Silence is the skin, silence covers and shelters disease” / Alejandra Pizarnik Check my Gallery Pu Zz Le Body Parts
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HoldingTheWomanSkeleton by Daniela M. Casalla
Inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ “Skeleton Woman”, – A Tale of the Inuit She had done something of which her father disapproved, although no one any longer remembered what it was. But her father had dragged her to the cliffs and thrown her over and into the sea. There, the fish ate her flesh away and plucked out her eyes. As she lay under the sea, her skeleton turned over and over in the currents. One day a fisherman came fishing, well, in truth many came to this bay once. But this fisherman had drifted far from his home place and did not know that the local fisherman stayed away, saying this inlet was haunted. The fisherman’s hook drifted down through the water, and caught of all places, in the bones of Skeleton Woman’s rib cage. The fisherman thought, “Oh, now I’ve really got a big one! Now I really have one!” In his mind he was thinking of how many people this great fish would feed, how long it would last, how long he might be free from the chore of hunting. And as he struggled with this great weight on the end of the hook, the sea was stirred to a thrashing froth, and his kayak bucked and shook, for she who was beneath struggled to disentangle herself. And the more she struggled, the more she tangled in the line. No matter what she did, she was inexorably dragged upward, tugged up by the bones of her own ribs. The hunter had turned to scoop up his net, so he did not see her bald head rise above the waves, he did not see the little coral creatures glinting in the orbs of her skull, he did not see the crustaceans on her old ivory teeth. When he turned back with his net, her entire body, such as it was, had come to the surface and was hanging from the tip of his kayak by her long front teeth. “Agh!” cried the man, and his heart fell into his knees, his eyes hid in terror on the back of his head, and his ears blazed bright red. “Agh!” he screamed, and knocked her off the prow with his oar and began paddling like a demon toward shoreline. And not realizing she was tangled in his line, he was frightened all the more for she appeared to stand upon her toes while chasing him all the way to shore. No matter which way he zigged his kayak, she stayed right behind, and her breath rolled over the water in clouds of steam, and her arms flailed out as though to snatch him down into the depths. “Agh!” he wailed as he ran aground. In one leap he was out of his kayak, clutching his fishing stick and running, and the coral white corpse of skeleton woman, still snagged in the fishing line, bumpety-bumped behind right after him. Over the rocks he ran, and she followed. Over the frozen tundra he ran, and she kept right up. Over the meat laid out to dry he ran, cracking it to pieces as his mukluks bore down. Throughout it all she kept right up, in fact, she grabbed some of the frozen fish as she was dragged behind. This she began to eat, for she had not gorged in a long, long time. Finally, the man reached his snowhouse and dove right into the tunnel and on hands and knees scrabbled his way into the interior. Panting and sobbing he lay there in the dark, his heart a drum, a mighty drum. Safe at last, oh so safe, yes, safe thank the Gods, Raven, yes, thank Raven, yes, and all bountiful Sedna, safe… at…last. Imagine when he lit his whale oil lamp, there she – it – lay in a tumble upon his snow floor, one heel over her shoulder, one knee inside her rib cage, one foot over her elbow. He could not say later what it was, perhaps the firelight softened her features, or the fact that he was a lonely man… but a feeling of some kindness came into his breathing, and slowly he reached out his grimy hands and using words softly like a mother to child, began to untangle her from the fishing line. “Oh, na, na, na.” First he untangled the toes, then the ankles. “Oh, na, na, na.” On and on he worked into the night, until dressing her in furs to keep her warm, Skeleton Woman’s bones were all in the order a human’s should be. He felt into his leather cuffs for his flint and used some of his hair to light a little more fire. He gazed at her from time to time as he oiled the precious wood of his fishing stick and rewound the gut line. And she in the furs uttered not a word – she did not dare – lest this hunter take her out and throw her down to the rocks and break her bones to pieces utterly. The man became drowsy, slid under his sleeping skins, and soon was dreaming. And sometimes as humans sleep, you know, a tear escapes from the dreamer’s eye; we never know what sort of dream causes this, but we know it is either a dream of sadness or longing. And this is what happened to the man. Skeleton Woman saw the tear glisten in the firelight and she became suddenly soooo thirsty. She tinkled and clanked and crawled over to the sleeping man and put her mouth to his tear. The single tear was like a river and she drank and drank and drank until her many-years-long thirst was slaked. While lying beside him, she reached inside the sleeping man and took out his heart, the mighty drum. She sat up and banged on both sides of it: Bom Bomm!.....Bom Bomm! As she drummed, she began to sing out “Flesh, flesh, flesh! Flesh, Flesh, Flesh!” And the more she sang, the more her body filled out with flesh. She sang for hair and good eyes and nice fat hands. She sang the divide between her legs, and breasts long enough to wrap for warmth, and all the things a woman needs. And when she was all done, she also sang the sleeping man’s clothes off and crept into his bed with him, skin against skin. She returned the great drum, his heart, to his body, and that is how they awakened, wrapped one around the other, tangled from their night, in another way now, a good and lasting way. The people who cannot remember how she came to her first ill fortune say she and the fisherman went away and were consistently well fed by the creatures she had known in her life under water. The people say that it is true and that is all they know. / By Clarissa Pinkola Estes _From Women Who Run with the Wolves
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Don't cut me down! by ToastedGhost
Last October at my local woods and the council employed a mad axeman / I imagined what it must have felt like to be a tree Just thought I put this up whilst I wait for reaction from my Zodiac Journal
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Born from the earth into isolation... by Paul Louis Villani
Was very lucky to spend some time over the Aradale weekend shooting with the gorgeous Kara Rasmanis / / The weekend was a huge success and I thouroughly enjoyed spending time with like-minded souls. / Massive thanks to the following for your muse, inspiration and collaboration… / Kara Rasmanis / Jenny Hall / John Robb / Matt Allan from Disenchanted / Melissa Kirkham / Jo O’Brien / James Price / Michael Alesich / Lucky Vegetable / khelltic / Bronwen Hyde / Karen / / / / / / / / / / Australiana / Born of This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Beautiful Humans / / / . / You can also listen to PLV’s music / / /
Recent Work
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Andrew May Photography by The InnerNortherns .
Inspired by / Jo Fedora Brunswick / Melbourne Andrew May / or / Here / circusgallery@hotmail.com
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There's no place like home by Dee Boylan
so…..I did a piece of work using my 3yr olds feet….then the 5 yr old wanted in as well and since I’m an equal opportunity mother I obliged…..she’s also a mad Wizard of Oz fan….she likes what i’ve done and she’s my harshest critic so I’m satisfied…; )
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Jane Dean by David Spencer
Girl as boy
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disappearing act by laurenrabbit
magic tricks
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Jules Campell Photographer by The InnerNortherns .
Australian based / Exhibited Photographer ARTIST STATEMENT I love photography as an artistic medium it is so immediate and real. As a ‘wanna be’ inventor at heart, photography lets me mesh my creative and technical cravings in one hit. My work is greatly influenced by my immediate environment, nature and memory. Visual structure and colour also play a major role in my art making. Currently I am obsessed all things archaic and it is a theme that arises through out my work over the years. Old cameras and new ways to use them helps me create works that remind me of a happy childhood when time seemed to stand still and life was simple. More Images / HERE / / WEBSITE
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Jump in the woods by Ian James
Jump goes back to nature Using Nikon D80: f5.6 / 23.9 second exposure / remote flash fired twice from another D80 / ISO 400 / 18 – 70mm lense / tripod mounted. Location: Scary dark woods Best viewed large…..for the full Jump experience. Other photos in the series: / /
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Contortion by laurenrabbit
magic tricks. in camera, not digital of course.
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Umbrella Girl #2 by min7209
Female Model pose with Umbrella at UCLA .
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Jump in the woods part 2 by Ian James
Jump goes back to nature. Check out the classic pencil jump stylee…. Using Nikon D80: f5.6 / 32.8 second exposure / remote flash fired twice from another D80 / ISO 400 / 18 – 70mm lense / tripod mounted. Location: Scary dark woods Best viewed large…..for the full Jump experience. Other photos in the series: / /
About This Group
THEATRICAL AND STAGED PHOTOGRAPHY
Setting up a scene to illustrate an idea using theatrical techniques such as costumes, make-up, models, location, lighting etc… then taking a photo of it…
An arranged photo shoot…
The concept must be evident in the ‘planning’ and during the ‘execution’ processes from an artistic and deliberate perspective… it is mainly going to exhibit persons or people in the images (poses etc.) however if the scene is made of a number of objects that tell a story it will be considered, this however will be rare and often by pre-arrangement.
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