The Softer Sex
I worked with graphic designer Roxy of Good Design and her client Allison Meredith to create this series of marketing and brand images for her new health and beauty practice in Cape Town. You can see the full CI here. Really enjoyed shooting the therapy/beauty shots in this backlit style.
(Note: “The Housewives” was a term I fondly coined in 2006 after I started getting shoot requests from private, individual women who became my clients. Many of the women who contacted me were married and in their mid 30’s and were doing the shoots as gifts to their husbands. The folder in my archives is still called this and so I’ve stuck to it, in part just for the irony: most of these women are not “housewives” at all, but strong independent and forward thinking women who I have had the honour of documenting.
All are private commissions and the demographic has changed substantially over the years. Some I’m still in contact with, others I’ve totally lost contact with, some have become friends, some may wish not to have their real names used, others don’t mind, some may have their faces obscured for privacy reasons, others have generously shared their experiences of being photographed.)
I photographed a short series of nudes for Jenna little while back. The images where mostly high contrast silhouettes and routines of her body and the images were, I think, commissioned as a gift for her soon-to-be husband.
A selection of personal behind-the-scenes snaps from the PMOY party in Johannesburg, hosted by Playboy South Africa in June 2013.
Playmates from Durban and Cape Town were flown in for the night for the ‘official’ handover from PMOY 2012 to 2013.
I documented these portraits of Emelia in June 2011. They were part of a student lecture where the City Varsity students got to spend the day “assisting” on a real shoot as a job shadowing experience.
