SIATKA (Patreon)

This is a print magazine that will be out soon. You, my Patrons, see this exclusive preview of the cover and the contents pages. It will be approximately 150 pages. The mag is standard magazine size, 8.5 x 17". 

I've always believed the best way to experience artwork is in print and so here are many high-quality prints in one publication for your bookshelf. Physical, tangible, real and in your hands.

I am offering a discount code to all my Patrons of course. Just message me if you are interested in purchasing this. What's in it? See the index page above.

Basically, it contains images that I see represent Aurora and my most artistic work. I believe this work is unique to us and our collaboration - and to our relationship, as Aurora does not model this way for other people of course. So you are definitely seeing something unique, the result of a creative collaboration between two lovers. Also though, much of the content is not really modelled anyway, there is situational and spontaneous imagery and behind the scenes and daily life images.

Toward the end of the mag I've included some images taken by Eric Clayton, a friend from Australia. He took some lovely shots of Aurora and I modelling together.

How did I select the work for this publication?

I wrote this for the inside cover of the mag, which explains a little of my thought process:

“The work you see in this mag has little to do with general model photography. It’s way easy to take a ‘good’ picture of a beautiful girl who fits the socially acceptable age group, body dimensions and commonly accepted idea of ‘beauty’. Anyone hack with a camera can do that. My own idea of beauty isn’t completely tied to nude young women, but to the mundane and everyday, to the periphery of this day, of this minute and this second, to the fringes of shadows, and the ugliness of the edges which sparkle with specialness.”

“I like to shoot in uncontrolled environments, places where serendipity has room to interject. Randomness and spontaneity are challenges and often the results aren’t what I expect, but somehow, usually, there’s a spark, a whisper of something greater than what was before my eyes. You can’t plan for that, just be open, and ready, and hunt for it, for it’s fleeting and elusive.”

I really hope this appeals to you dear patrons. The work is very much me, and us.