An attempt in red

No one will doubt that I photograph sexy girls mainly because it gives  me pleasure to follow the shapes of their beautiful young bodies, to  witness how it (sometimes, often...) excites them to show themselves to  me completely shamelessly, and to capture their sparkling sensuality in  pictures. After all, the master Helmut Newton once said something like  that a photographer who claims not to be a voyeur is a liar. I do not  deny that :-)

Then of course when I'm shooting I often think  about you, the people who will see the photos later and what they expect  from me and my models. I therefore sometimes make more explicit images  than I would if it were purely about the artistic work. Although, as an  artist, I am still looking for the "definitive explicit image" that,  apart from its erotic content, could be called a real work of art. And  of course the situations in which these images are created also give me  much pleasure and the wishes of my patrons serve me as a very welcome  excuse to induce just these situations :-)

Sometimes, however, I  have "purely artistic" ideas. It's not easy, because I hate the nudes  you see so often, where the model takes in complicated, unnatural poses,  just to hide what's crucial, or the angle is chosen so that you can't  see anything, because "art may not be arousing". (Not that I think that  every picture must show everything, but the pictures as you see them in  millions on Instagram, that with hypocritical, pseudo-artistic  expressions and filters appeal to the sexual instincts and where "nudity  without nudity", "sex without sex" "lust without lust".... in  celebrated, excite in me nothing but nausea).

This time my idea  was to cover the model with a sheath that hides her skin, but that hugs  the body, the shapes, the hairs and details so that everything really is  visible without much being visible.

I tried it with a wet white  cloth, but the cloth was too thick, it didn't become transparent as  intended when I wet it, and the few photos I took were so completely  uninteresting that I didn't even edit them.

After the cloth thing failed completely, I tried the red tissue paper you see in the photos in this series.

Even  with that, I didn't really achieve what I wanted. The paper fell apart  and tore practically the moment I wet it. I couldn't really press it  against the model's body. If I wanted to press it tightly against the  pussy, so that it depicted the shape of the mound and the lips and the  hairs shone through, it tore at the thighs or just exactly where I  pressed. With the slightest movement of the model, the paper tore and  the skin came out.

Eventually I'll find a material that gets me closer to what I had in mind.

Nevertheless,  the mood in the pictures is special and so today I show you a small  series of an attempt that did not bring the intended result but I hope  you like this "back-stage insight" into my work and my trials!