Vaunt and Porcelain for Madam and a little bit The Jungle

Moving is change, and I think one of the biggest things that affects our work as artists is environment.  

I started The Jungle and its sort of off shoot project Madam because for years I was either in Philly or traveling to other cities where the parks we could shoot in weren't awe inspiring quite in the way I wanted for my outdoor nude projects Into the Wild/We Were Wanderers.  Or the parks would be great, but also filled with people making shooting nudes hard/dangerous/illegal.

Philly especially I always found inspiring, but there were just so many human elements in the parks, very old human elements, but human elements none the less.  So I started trying to get wardrobe that would match these places after a shoot with Kacie Marie in Brooklyn changed how I was thinking about my bodies of work.   The Jungle is actually the first project I started as part of Patreon (The first shoot post can be found here)

Flash forward two years, and we are finally fulfilling a dream of moving to the west coast, and the change of scenery has definitely had a huge impact on what I'm shooting.  LA is great for The Jungle, but here in Seattle shooting for it has been more of a challenge.  The parks simply are awe inspiring, getting away from people is easy, and, different than the city parks of the east coast, these places are very wild.  

So when we first arrived I was lucky enough to go out and shoot a couple of tests with Porcelain and Nicole to see what locations would work for what projects, and while I don't consider this shoot a failure it was also just not the right spot for The Jungle or Madam.  These series just seem to need that human element, at least for me to get the number of solid images I am looking for on any shoot.  

Now that a year has passed I definitely wanted to share these with you all to see the growth.

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