hiya Mike and thanks for your reply. y'know... thats a comment that is made a LOT of times... if i had a euro-nickel for each time i hearc it, i'd be in a nicer house!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
BUT, to tell you the truth, in MY area there are millions of pretty girls but they smoke... yup, as a freelance bum sunset shooter, i can take my pick of whom i wanna shoot. plus in other areas: Madrid, Barcelona and other BIG places, there are girls whom people tell me, i can find to shoot and places that will show my pixs. well, what do i say to that??
i lived in Barcelona once and couldn't find girls to pose there also, and the galleries were filled with THEIR catalans' works (they hate spanish people thar, and speak their own language even). i was in Germany just recently and had the same problem also: nobody to shoot and no gallery to show my fotos.
so, thence the reason i make these expensive trips to the states spending money i dont have, travelling everywhere by greyhound, sleeping on sofas and heater rooms and hoping i'll get fed cuz i ain't got the money; in one month in the states, i can shoot
4-5 individuals seriously into my art whereas in 12 years here i might find
(if lucky) one or two bodies. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] if it werent for me travelling to THEM, they wouldn't even shoot with me. i am not finding one model to pose for me for a regular portfolio shoot to pay me and help me finance my trip or feed me. but i see they pay other photogs whose work is not my style or quality... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
next summer's trip will be the last though; my 2003 foto trip thru the states took me 2 years to pay off the bills (i don't sell any of the pixs and
nobody would think if BUYing my stuff) so no reason to do it anymore. i mainly create fetish, bondage and artnudes to display in my foto exhibits, and not too models are interested in being art but being paid, which i can't do.
so, not the answer you thought nor wanted to hear but that's the plight of this
artist.
below: if photography is your passion and your camera is starving, there's always one of these to feed it!!
