Ben Hopper

How to join my New Uncensored Algorithm-Bypassing Email Newsletter

Dear ones (public update),

In response to Instagram and Facebook's continuous deletion mistakes, and in fear of my accounts (or any of my socials) being permanently suspended, I started a personal email newsletter.

I'm now gathering emails from followers who seek to bypass the censorship and the algorithm - and stay connected directly.

If you'd like to join you can do so on my website at: 

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2022-09-05 08:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post

(not) Naked with Masks - my 2nd NFT collection 👺

ellloooo!!! So this is the other thing I've been working on lately and I've been eager to share - introducing: (not) Naked with Masks
My new and 2nd NFT photography collection; 16 Censorship-Resistant Portraits 🥳👺

This collection is dropping on Aug 4 but I wanted to share it with you personally before! The photos were taken between 2010-2016, and there's more information about everything below.

Also, you can find all of the info about the series, images a...

(after 14 years) Dancers on Rooftops is COMPLETE

Hey dear ones! I'm making this a public post because many of you were in and out of here during the period of the making of this work 🙌

Over the past months, I've been focusing on finishing my project 'Dancers on Rooftops'.

A personal photography art project that originated in 2008, kicked off in 2012-2013 but by 2017, was left aside and nearly died off in the archives. Come NFTs, it received a boosted revival in 2021-2022.

This is a journey, both my own ...

'The Black and White (some more)' photos + prints

Hey all (prints link below),

Following up on my mega news post, I figured it'd be nice to put all of the photos from 'The Black and White (some more)' in one place, just for you. 

‘THE BLACK AND WHITES (Some More)’ exhibition opened on June 17, 2012, at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick, London, UK. It stayed on for 3 weeks.

I had almost 40 x A0 (120x80cm) black and white prints h...

NFTs, Uncensored Nudes & Prints 🥳

Hey there lovelies! (public post)

I've been busy doing many different things, and I realised it's time for a public update, and it's actually been almost a year exactly since the last Patreon public update, so we're gonna be slightly long today (plus there's an extra post with nudes for the £5+ patrons coming straight after this!).

HERE WE GO

1. I'm now (also) an NFT photographer

I entered the NFT space in Sep 2021 with my project 'Dancer...

Evelyn Osborne for 'Human Spaces' - NSFW - 20 images - Part 4/4 (Sep 2020)

woo!! 4th and last part of Evelyn Osborne for 'Human Spaces' <3

See 1st part here, 2nd part here and 3rd part here.

Evelyn Osborne for 'Human Spaces' - NSFW - 15 images - Part 3/4 (Sep 2020)

yo! 3rd part of Evelyn Osborne!

See 1st part here, 2nd part here.

Evelyn Osborne for 'Human Spaces' - NSFW - 15 images - Part 2/4 (Sep 2020)

hi there! 2nd part of Evelyn Osborne!

See 1st part here.

Evelyn Osborne for 'Human Spaces' - NSFW - 18 images - Part 1/4 (Sep 2020)

HAPPY HOLIDAYZZZ!

Today I'm starting to share THE SECOND beautiful intimate series of nude photos I've done with the talented Evelyn Osborne in her house in Berlin in Sept last year (I've done the 1st one almost exactly a year prior to this shoot, you can see them here; prt 1, prt 2, 2021-12-27 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Erika Suzuki for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 8 images - Part 3/3 (Israel, May 2020)

Part 3 with my friend, British-Japanese Israel based artist and model Erika Suzuki.

Taken at 'Etzba Cave' in the Carmel, Haifa, Israel. May 2020.

View part 1 here and part 2 here.

Ben <3

Erika Suzuki for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 9 images - Part 2/3 (Israel, May 2020)

Part 2 with my friend, British-Japanese Israel based artist and model Erika Suzuki.

Taken at 'Etzba Cave' in the Carmel, Haifa, Israel. May 2020.

View part 1 here.

Ben <3

Erika Suzuki for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 8 images - Part 1/3 (Israel, May 2020)

What's new beloved patrons, I hope you're well! :D

I've been cruising around since mid-June, photographing LOADS in Berlin and even more in the UK while visiting there in Sep, Oct and Nov.

I also jumped into the deep waters that is the NFT world and started offering my project 'Dancers on Rooftops' as 1 of 1s on OpenSea. If any of you are into that stuff, you can check out the collection here...

Shulamit for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 16 images - Part 4/4 (Israel, Jul 2020)

yo there! here's the last part (4) of my shoot with Shulamit for 'Human Nature' -  (Israel, Jul 2020)

somewhere in between, there's a photo of a greenhouse we stood next to in the beginning of the shoot higher on the mountain. i had to slide it in :D

you can re-visit part 1 here

part 2 here  2021-08-27 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Shulamit for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 17 images - Part 3/4 (Israel, Jul 2020)

yo there! here's part 3 of my shoot with Shulamit  for 'Human Nature' -  (Israel, Jul 2020)

some of my favs are in this one <3 

you can re-visit part 1 here

part 2 here

part 4 here 

Shulamit for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 14 images - Part 2/4 (Israel, Jul 2020)

yo there! here's part 2 of my shoot with Shulamit  for 'Human Nature' -  (Israel, Jul 2020)

in the background, you can see the Sea of Galilee during a magnificent sunset 

you can re-visit part 1 here 

Shulamit for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 17 images - Part 1/4 (Israel, Jul 2020)

I'm back! editing and planning new things after some long travel / time-off

excited to make things again! 

I'll be sharing more in the coming days/weeks but first, introducing the first part of my shoot with Shulamit, an incredible Israeli girl I photographed at the end of July last year, just above the Sea of Galilee on the edge of a little village called Ma'ale Gamla.

the 2nd, 3rd and 4th parts include incredible sunset views of the Sea of Galilee (coming in the next ...

Sheira Mindel for 'Human Nature' - 17 images - Part 3/3 (Israel, Sep 2020)

Last one of Sheira Mindel for 'Human Nature'

<3 

Ben 

Sheira Mindel for 'Human Nature' - 15 images - Part 2/3 (Israel, Sep 2020)

2nd part of Sheira Mindel for 'Human Nature' <3 taken on the beach of my childhood! :)

Erika Suzuki for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 11 images - Part 3/3 (Israel, Mar 2021)

Last one from Erika Suzuki ...for now (we do have a nude cave shoot coming up ;)

Have a lovely wknd! 

Ben x

Sheira Mindel for 'Human Nature' - 13 images - Part 1/3 (Israel, Sep 2020)

This is exciting, with the help of all of you guys I've slowly started organising my work and this project that was sort of born out of posting photos from Patreon, is now materialising; becoming a beautiful collection of images called 'Human Nature'.

Today I'm sharing the first part from a shoot I've done with Israel awesome multitalented young woman called Sheira Mindel.

It was taken in a banana pla...

Erika Suzuki for 'Human Nature' - NSFW - 18 images - Part 2/3 (Israel, Mar 2021)

More from Erika Suzuki. Guess which spot in these photos was the one I once sat crying on magic mushrooms? ;)

New chapter - join me? 💞

Next week, on the 15th, I'll be flying to Greece to start a little journey. This journey will be a variation of what I planned to do in April 2020, prior to Covid. After leaving London in the winter of 2019, I decided the main thing I want to do is to live nomadic for some time; to see and visit places I haven't been to yet. First on my list was South East Asia but everything was halted with the pandemic.

This decision, as glorious and seductive as it may sound, doesn't come easy; I'm n...

Erika Suzuki for 'Human Nature' - 14 images - Part 1/3 (Israel, Mar 2021)

A positive Instagram story: On March 11 I ran into the incredible @erika____suzuki on IG; an English-Japanese-Scottish model and artist.
On the 29th of March, we created these images around the shorelines of my hometown in Israel.
If it wasn't for IG, we would have never met and create this work so quickly ...PLUS, remember that cave I shared stories of few days ago? Yes, we did a shoot in there. Complete...

Danielle Stephen for 'Human Nature' - 24 images - Part 2/2 (Israel, Aug 2020)

yoooooo!

Today' I'm sharing more from my shoot with dancer / model Danielle Stephen, taken in Aug 2020 on the beach I spent most of my childhood and teenage years at; Atlit beach (Israel).

Needless to say it was very special for me to shoot there AND I'm happy to say I've shot more around that beach before and after ...I'll be sharing those in the near future too ;)

Ben x

Danielle Stephen for 'Human Nature' - 12 images - Part 1/2 (Israel, Aug 2020)

YO! Hope you're good :)

It's been a while but I've been quietly editing about 5 shoots simultaneously and today I'm excited to share the first part of one of them.

This one was photographed in Atlit, the town I grew up in Israel. It's featuring dancer / model Danielle Stephen.

The first part was photographed in the ruins of Sheikh Burak (also known as Sheikh Burik ); an Armenian village near Atlit that was abandoned in the early 1980s. 

Doing some further reading ...

Marion Crampe for 'Human Nature' - 11 images - Part 2/2 (Berlin, Sep 2020)

Hey there dear friends! :D

Today I'm sharing the 2nd part of a set I made with the legendary extraordinaire performer, instructor & model Marion Crampe.

We created it on the morning of Sep 13th (2020) around the Weißer See lake in Berlin.

You can find the 1st part here.

Ben <3 

Verified on Instagram ✓ (at last)

HALLLOOO DUDETTES AND DUDES

I hope you're well!!! :) I have great news, a bit on the technical side; Yesterday was a celebratory day; after about 7 years, I FINALLY managed to get my Instagram account verified!
What it really means for me is that from now on, my account should be reviewed by humans as opposed to algorithms. This makes me feel extremely relieved.
As some of you may know, I've had reoccurring issues with IG's algorithm mistakingly removing my post...

Marion Crampe for 'Human Nature' - 11 images - Part 1/2 (Berlin, Sep 2020)

YO PATRONS! Hope you're all well :D

Today I'm sharing the 1st part of a set I made with the legendary extraordinaire performer, instructor & model Marion Crampe.

We created it on the morning of Sep 13th (2020) around the Weißer See lake in Berlin.

Digital Download

Today I'm also starting a little experiment; I've set up a digital download item on my shop, where you can grab a zip of the full shoot (22 images) for £5 only. There are only 20 of t...

Kaedderinaa for 'Human Spaces' - NSFW - 23 images - Part 2/2 (Berlin, Sep 2020)

2nd part from the shoot I've done with Kat aka Kaedderinaa last Sep. See the first part here.

yeaaaaaaaaaaa man!!!! :)

Kaedderinaa for 'Human Spaces' - NSFW - 23 images - Part 1/2 (Berlin, Sep 2020)

YO! first, HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY! I made a few stories on my Instagram ...and ye, I still haven't posted anything since they removed my photograph. I'm genuinely scared my whole account will be taken down. It's fucking absurd I can't share a photograph of a woman showing her hairy armpits. It's the most basic thing I do in life. Having a major identity crisis here...

ah...anyway :) I'm starting to edit stuff again....