A real medley, here!

I’ve enjoyed quite a few shoots with photographer James Hall, over the last year or so, and here are some of his results. We’ve got everything from an image depicting Judith and Holofernes (featuring wonderful male model Joel Hicks, and which, to me looks somehow reminsicent of a Bollywood film poster – I did feel terribly guilty killing my co-model for the shot, but Joel is dedicated to his art and took one for the team), to me as ‘butterfly maiden’, some simple nudes and portraits, a striking nude with male model Tim, and some classic art (Rembrandt) inspired duo work with Ivory Flame (including one shot that, to me, looks straight out of a scene from Pride and Prejudice). There is also one image featuring both Tim and Joel, amusingly titled (by James) ‘Mercy protecting Stoke’! Stoke is James’ neck of the woods, but it’s hard to know how effective my protection was. 🙂

Working with James is always interesting and lots of fun, as he tends to have a specific vision which we then improvise around. It’s great to work with so much variety!

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Hi everyone! Thought I’d share some images from a recent shoot in the ancient woodland here in Oxfordshire, taken by the brilliant Bokehlicious. I’d modelled for him before, years ago, and was actually the one that suggested this shoot as I had an idea in mind.

I’ve seen a lot of outdoor lingerie shoots over the years that look beautiful, but also a lot that just look a bit odd, i.e. ‘Why would she be outdoors in her underwear?’ It can seem a bit incongruous and I’m personally more keen on images which have a sense of narrative (even if a nebulous one!). You could argue the same about nudes (‘why would she be outdoors without any clothes on? What’s going on here?’) but, for me, nudes have always been instinctively natural. That probably doesn’t make much sense, but there you go!

Anyway, I LOVE lingerie and have a huge collection so it’s something I’d like to remember to shoot more of. I have a very natural, classical look and didn’t go for a full-on ‘glamour’ vibe with these, more something that straddles ‘commercial-ish’ and ‘romantic’, maybe.

Which (if any) are your favourites?

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Zoe Wiseman has been a great person to know over the years – she has created the most wonderful gathering, Zoefest, which brings together a group of photographers and models in a different location each time (Mexico, California and Australia are among those I’ve attended). It’s always a week of intense creativity and the connections made between models as well as photographers has been a highlight of my modelling vocation over the last decade, so I feel really grateful to have been invited so many times.

Here are some of her images of me taken in Noosa, Australia in November.

Zoe and her musician husband, Charlie Clouser, drove us to the beach where Zoe flew a drone and captured these amazing seascapes with me being washed up and around the shoreline over and over again. It was such a surreal experience – I actually lost some hearing over the next few days (oops!) and had no real control over my posing as the water just kept taking me and flowing my limbs around. It felt a bit womb-like. Everyone should try it. Also, don’t the results look a bit like we shot on a watery moon? 🙂 So cool.

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