Weekly updates on Events, Photo Shoots, Fet-Erotica Magazine, Featured Artists and Contests
I would like to welcome Models Anna Petrova and Heather Nicholson, both in the U.K. In joining our Fet-Erotica Team as newest members of our FetCats. Check with the FetCats page soon as their profiles will go up soon.
FetCat model Anna Petrova | Image by Matt Belshaw
FetCat model Heather Nicholson | Image by Jimmy Deas
Fet-Erotica Magazine Issue 1
I would like to thank everyone who has submitted to Fet-Erotica Magazine and helped launch our first issue of the year. We are proud to have featured so many artists from photographers to models, to digital artists and writers. What we love the most is the diversity of the magzine and all of the art forms that express what is Fetish, what is Erotica and Fine Art.
One of the photographers featured in issue 1 of Fet-Erotica Magazine is from across the pond, and a pleasure to introduce him to many of you who do not know him, Lee Manston.
L.R.M Photography (Lee Manston)
I started photography just over three years ago after deciding that I wanted something new in my life, a new challenge so to speak. At the time I had no idea how far I would go with it or how much I would progress but I have always been of the mindset that if I did something I enjoy, I go for it 100%, and that has been the case with my photography.
For the first few years I was purely a studio photographer, turning the extension on the house into a 24/7 ready to go equipped studio. The last few months I have started to do more location and outdoor photography and I like the extra scope for creativity these locations can provide over a studio but I still do plenty of studio work and look at improving my lighting techniques on each shoot. I tend to shoot unconventionally at times, I love using natural light and using objects to create in camera effects, love reflections and always trying to think outside the box.
I still have so much to learn, both in shooting and post processing but that is the beauty about photography to me, there is always something else to learn and improve on.
More of L.R.M Photography can be found on any of the following:
Website - lrmphotography.co.uk | Purpleport - L.R.M Photography | Twitter - @LRMphotos | lnstagram - L.R.M_photography | Facebook - L.R.M Photography
L.R.M. Photography | Model Jodie Ellen
L.R.M. Photography | Model Lauren
We are just right around the corner from releasing our first issue of Fet-Erotica Magazine. I would like to thank so many artists (you know who you are) for your submissions and contributions to the magazine. We have artists from around the world who will be featured in the magazine. This issue will mark the evolution of our magazine, website, and its community. Thank you again. - The Fet-Erotica Team
Wax week was very interesting. Thank you all who shared their work. I would also like to announce the winner of our Wax Week Contest: Photographer Boris Mirkin/Kaos Studios with Model/hair/mua: Cat Ross/Ropo
I put the travel in "travel model" because even though I live in Fayetteville, NC I almost never shoot in my home town. I was born in Maine, though most people thing I was born in Russia or some other Eastern Block country.
I don't really consider myself just a model anymore. I like to think of myself as more of an artist.
I want to create and modeling gives me a wonderful avenue to let my mind run rampant with concepts to shoot and looks to create.
I think what makes a model an artist is the need and the want to create their own concepts and start their own projects. Freelance modeling is a commitment to me. An investment. So I'll dump money into tailored outfits I create just for a shoot, usually 2-3 per shoot and come up with these concepts that I think would work best with each photographer. I don't just invest my body in modeling, I invest my heart and my soul.
Everything to me is done with purpose. Every shoot I aim to have a meaning behind the photos. Whether it's just aesthetically pleasing or dark and eerie to make you contemplate what you are looking at. We can all do the "pretty girl on bed" look and they make for lovely photos, but I aim to make it to be more than just that. Even with photographers that come with their own concepts to shoot, and clients who pay for a certain look, I always come with more options to offer or things to add to the look.
I love modeling for most of the same reason that other models love modeling. I like to have fun. I love seeing the finished result. I love being a part of something bigger and watching how elaborate a shot can get and it comes out amazing. It's worth the stress, the hard work, that long night staying up dying my hair, packing and unpacking my car, all the last minute wardrobe modifications and constantly learning new beauty/styling techniques to incorporate so I can be the all inclusive, can do model I want to be.
I love the kink side of modeling because I live it in my daily life. I don't have to fall into a character. I am most myself when I am being bound and strung up. The ironic thing about wearing a mask while being suspended is that there is no place to hide when I am floating feely. Being suspended like that is like coming home to me. It's letting go and just melting into the ropes. It's an embrace that bites and tears at you while it send you into the dark recesses of your mind, like laying on your back in the middle of the ocean, just drifting away and not caring. It's intoxicating and I usually pout and fight back when I am told I am coming down and as I am bring untied until the ropes loosen and the chemicals hit my brain like a drug and send me into subspace, which is the ultimate black hole that knocks you flat on your ass and makes you forget your own name.
And most importantly I need to add that I have had help along the way. I want to take this time to give credit where credit is much deserved and recognize someone that has made a great impression with many photographers and artist alike as an artist all in his own. I want to thank Dan Robert, who is my multi-facetted Assistant on the set and my husband off the set. Many photographers that I have worked with praise him for his helpfulness and his skill in so many areas. He is the one responsible for tying me in all my shibari/kinbaku rope works as well as having so many additional talents including being a self taught prosthetics artist, aiding with wardrobe construction, helping the photographers out by holding reflectors and pretty much anything else they ask him to do, and generally being there for me to bounce concepts off of and give me input. He's committed himself to many long weekends carting me around from one photographer to the next so I can rest in between and constantly trying to get me to stop eating that piece of candy before a shoot (cause I am HORRIBLE about dieting lol). I am very lucky to have such an asset to aid me and even luckier that he married my crazy ass.
So thank you Dan Robert for all your help and thank you to all the photographers who have worked with us to create something amazing.
Photographer Matt Schmidt
We held our first official contest last week for MASK WEEK! Winner of the contest is Photographer Darcy Lynn Delia with model Sushii Xhyvette
Http://darcydelia.com
Fb. @darcylynndelia
Model: fb @sushii xhyvette
Thank you ladies for your amazing work. The Fet-Erotica Team.
I'd like to thank Model Izzy Borden for sharing her work for Mask Week. You can see more of her work on her Instagram @thedarkeststarx
Model Chrissy Marie is from Tega Cay South Carolina. She's been modeling for 2 years now and loves this type of work because she loves how it makes her feel. It shows her in a different light and helps her to be confident. More of her work on Instagram @chrissymariemodel
Photographer Oko Foto Model Chrissy Marie
"I will take your ways...those antiquated, narrow views that hallmark your hubris...and I will shove them down your throats. An idol for you to worship...on your knees."
The inconceivably beautiful and vaguely threatening Svetlana Tupelov
Photographer Felix Karellen Model Svetlana Tupelov
Photographer Darcy Lynn Delia has a creative spirit and loves to explore different lighting possibilities and adds her own flavor to the mix.
Http://darcydelia.com
Fb. @darcylynndelia
Model: fb @sushii xhyvette
