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Response to My current fetish: Michel Comte

from shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com)
If I come to make images like this for any reason, I will speak volumes in whatever media/language I know to show the beauty of them, for it is not only in the looking that that beauty can be known.

That's precisely where I have been fooling myself, or rather DENYING myself lately. I've been trying to take pictures with 'beautiful' women, rather than being true to myself and making beautiful pictures. I WANT to editorialize against fashion, but how do you do that when the eighteen year-old model, who is working with you and has absolutely no freaking clue about the 'reality of things', is going to be the one so editorialized?

I promised myself a long time ago I'd try to never hurt anyone, and now I am in THAT so deep, I can't even say to someone "I'm editorializing on this subject; I want you to be an actor here", because I firmly believe most of the world will not see the model as an actor, but as a model tramp/anorexic/slut/Unfortunate who got caught up in a dirty-or-otherwise-suspicious-minded photographer's obsession.

Take a copy of Elle to your local restaurant/club/supermarket and sit down with a stranger, leaf through it, and watch with amazement how "real" the person thinks everything is, how literal the description of the model...I couldn't do that to my models, couldn't risk doing it, and sleep at night...

But I'll get over that someday...or I'll start making enough money to hire TRUE professionals who THEMSELVES are aware of the difference.

Or are too junked up on heroin to care...shawn

(posted 8776 days ago)

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