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brianforbidden

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I am a photographer who's been shooting seriously since the late 1990's. Stylistically and conceptually I am influenced by movies: Jean Rollin - Jess Franco - Borowczyk - Catherine Breillat - Alfred Hitchcock - Paul Verhoeven - Kenneth Anger - John Waters - Luis Bunuel - - James Bond movies - blah blah blah

I like my pictures to be colorful, dynamic, somewhat peculiar, and cool. Sexy is usually a plus, too. Everything depends on the model. We make the pictures together so I always want to incorporate my model's ideas into the shoot. Pictures are transient fantasies - not real life. Let's make stuff up!

Current Residence: Central Connecticut
Favourite genre of music: indie noise punk hardcore and modern folk like jeffrey lewis and the mountain goats
Favourite photographer: Roy Stuart. Chas Ray Krider. Man Ray. Kula. Stieglitz.
Favourite style of art: early 20th century - surrealism, dada
MP3 player of choice: iPhone does it all - life changer
Favourite cartoon character: Ben from Dr. Katz
Personal Quote: blur 1 picture, it's a mistake. blur 'em all, it's a style.

Favourite Visual Artist
Munch. Magritte. Giger. Shiele. Dali. DuChamp. Latrec. Klimt.
Favourite Movies
latest? black snake moan, last picture show, pick of destiny?
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
mike patton et al @ ipecac records; stephen lynch, flight of the conchords
Favourite Writers
Nabokov, Kafka, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, David Lodge, Ian Fleming. Charles Bukowski
Tools of the Trade
Canon cameras, Epson printer, Lightroom, Photoshop, ice cream
Other Interests
photography. tasty things. spirits and wines and beers et al. music of all sorts. visual art. travel
So I have lots of pictures to process. Been backlogged for a few weeks. I blame the total mess that is my office. Tons of papers and pictures and cameras and stuff everywhere. I can't concentrate! And each day I've been putting off photo work until I get the mess under control. And I was almost there before my trip, but once I got back, everything went everywhere again. I'm trying to keep only necessities, but can 98% really be essential? Any ideas? Please share...
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happy with this latest batch o' pictures I uploaded here. A lot of the other stuff from this shoot was traditionally sexy and cool, but the pictures I most wanted to see were the ones where I tried new things. So these new pictures were done with long exposures and flashes coming from a couple of cameras while the lens was open.
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You have a great feel and style to your work. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome gallery
Yay, you're uploading! :)
YAY!!! Lots of photos!

Will you be at the group shoot next weekend?
thanks for the watch
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thank you very much :boogie: