I met Una in 2017 when she came to my studio for her portrait photoshoot after winning the title of Ms Leather South Africa. Ive added a selection of her portraits here.
Category: Women I’ve Shot
(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.)
This is Caylin. I photographed her in 2018 in the beautiful home of a friend who kindly let me use the space as a location.
The series of images where intended as a gift for her fiancé and were given to him the night before their wedding day, very romantic!
Caylin was so wonderful to work with, she’s strong, confident and beautiful and had great reference images for me to work from for the shoot.
We shot about 5 different looks of which Ive included a few here. We used a mix of lingerie from my ‘prop collection’ and garments/items Caylin brought with her.
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NEWBORN SHOOT with Liz
It’s great working with clients all the way through from their pregnancy to their new families.
This is Liz who Ive worked with twice on maternity shoots before her little one was born.
Really enjoyed working with her again and meeting her baby boy. This is a selection of images from our shoot together.
I travelled to Diani Beach, an hour South of Mombasa, Kenya in December 2018 for a mini-sabbatical and break with multiple cameras. Of course.
I shot this series of water portraits of a beautiful artist friend Barbara Wildenboer who was at the time working on a body of work strongly influenced by Greek mythology.
I shot the whole series on a Holga camera on analogue/ medium format roll film. A favourite creative medium to work with.
I shot two projects, this one, and this one- link here and started a new project which I’m yet to continue (it’ll eventually and organically happen I think).
From Daughter of Oceanus all but one are double exposures and shot while I was chest deep in the 23 degree water. It was a stunning experience, the moon was already high and it was full.
