Brand New Photography book of erotic nudes by Ellen Stagg shot in the past 3 years!!!

Stagg’s images show confident women who surrender to the camera unfettered and without compromise. A potpourri of nudity, open-mindedness and freedom. This collection has no taboos, is uncovered from head to toe, exciting and liberating at the same time. All this in more than 250 pages, bound as a hardcover volume and printed in high quality.

Ellen Stagg – the winner of “Best Book 2017 for “Dirty Girl Collection” , “Fan Favorite Photographer 2019” and “Best photographer” Alt Porn Awards. More is more. In this high-quality printed photo book, photographer Ellen Stagg once again shows what makes her successful. Her unbridled and free approach made Stagg a world-famous photographer. With skill she uses the momentum and shows her liberated handling of the camera and the models. The results: extremely seductive snapshots.Casually open photography for the free world.

SAVE $10 IF YOU EMAIL ME AT STAGSGTREET@GMAIL.COM AND SEND ME VENMO OR ZELLE AS MY CC PROCESSOR TAKES A HUGE CUT.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Goliath Publishing (November 1, 2023)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 255 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3948450226
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3948450229
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches

• Amelia G & Forrest Black
• Bob Coulter
• Corwin Prescott
• Ellen Stagg
• Morat
• Nikki Hearts
• Sam Crux

Nominees, please contact us for VIP guest list for our annual red carpet open bar AltPorn Awards celebration, presented by MyFreeCams, in Hollywood, California on May 11 this year.

• Amelia G and Forrest Black
• Blackula
• Bob Coulter
• Ellen Stagg
• Mike “Ohrangu” Tang
• Morat

If you are nominated, and don’t have an email from us yet, you can also contact us for nominee badges and AltPorn Awards VIP Tickets. Follow the AltPorn Awards 2018 event page on Facebook.

Winners are selected based on a combination of votes from the AltPorn.net judges panel of editorial and writing staff and suggestions from fans, models, and producers. To contribute to choosing the winners, just hit up our contact form and select ‘Suggestion,’ write ‘2018 AltPorn Award Nomination’ for subject, and let us know the category or categories and your suggested winner(s). You are welcome to ask your friends and fans and collaborators to vote for you. Nominations can also be tweeted at us with hashtag #altpornawards to @AltPornNet via the AltPornNet Twitter because we want to make it easy for you.

Gazing out over the New York City skyline, Masuimi seems to own this city. And as a true superheroine should, she appears flawless and powerful. Her skin soft and smooth, and her tits are about to burst out of their red, white and blue prison. Ho say, can you see how good she looks in this shoot? Like an American wet dream…

The FedorasBox members area is really cleanly organized and offers previews of upcoming updates, good photo set descriptions including photographer and model credits, along with some entertaining info about the shoot to give it good context, as well as an active blog from Fedora outlining her thoughts and adventures. The individual update pages offer good photoset navigation, a hands free slide show option, a rating system so you can rank what you like and navigate by general popularity, downloadable ZIP sets for each update, and the videos come in an assortment of downloadable formats too. Some of the photo sets can be a bit short for my taste (14 to 20 pics) but most are a good length and show lots of style and variety. I wouldn’t mind seeing a little chat area added for scheduled live interaction some day, but the behind the scenes video clips do offer some fun ‘behind the curtain’ view. I would say FedorasBox is not quite as explicitly sexual as many solo girl sites are these days, but on the overall, it’s erotic beauty and creative range make it very enjoyable. It has a fun independent irreverent vibe that I really like. Plus, the professionally designed members area make it a joy to explore.

Right now, monthly FedorasBox memberships are on discount and they are also offering member rates as low as $7.50 a month for longer subscriptions. Stop by and check out what Fedora has going on in her box.

Hollywood, CA May 2012 – California Deathrock Book Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ameliag/california-deathrock-book/

Kickstarter crowdfunding just succeeded for a book of deathrock subculture
photography by Amelia G and Forrest Black. Best known for their work with
Blue Blood, the photography of Amelia G and Forrest Black has also been
published by Rolling Stone, Playboy, Tattoo Savage, Picture, MTV, Orkus,
New Grave, Permission, Alternative Press, Meltdown, Ghastly, Sonic Seducer,
and many others.

For more than a decade, Amelia G and Forrest Black’s personal work has been
documenting various subcultures. Amelia G says the West Coast deathrock
scene has been one of their favorite subcultures to shoot. Publishing a
fifteen year retrospective of deathrock imagery would definitely be a labor
of love, so the subculture documentarians appealed to their friends and
readers to back a Kickstarter project to put the book out.

As of today, the Kickstarter is successful, with the project 110% funded
and 11 days to go in the pledge drive. Amelia G says she is “super happy
and more than a little relieved” that the Kickstarter has succeeded and
additional funding pledges between now and June 7 will go to more pages and
wider bookstore distribution. Connoisseurs of deathrock and art photography
can continue to pledge via Kickstarter up until June 7 at 5pm Pacific.
Backers who pre-order the book will be thanked in print inside it.

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California Deathrock Book Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ameliag/california-deathrock-book/

What is Kickstarter?
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#WhatIsKick

YouTube of California Deathrock Video for Embedding Ease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcuNWA83Go

Special thanks to Death Guild and Release the Bats where some of this video
was shot. Much love to Margo, Satoki, Thee Gabe, Domiana, Kat, Thistle
(RIP), Talia, Christian, Jenn Bats, Dave Bats, Shane Taleda, Matt Riser,
Eva O, and everyone else in the contact sheets and photos and video
footage.

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“The refreshingly fascinating photography of Amelia G and Forrest Black
successfully captures the alluring mystique of the members of our society’s
underground sub-cultures, and presents these often-misunderstood
individuals in a sexy, provocative, and yet approachable way.” –Linda “FC”
Fletch, Editor, Tattoo Savage magazine

– Sean Abandoned (Bombshell Brats)
– Amelia G & Forrest Black (Blue Blood)
– Bob Coulter (CrazyBabe)
– Kelly Lind (Burning Angel)
– Clix (EroticBPM)

One of my favorite series in the book is the cool damp blue-toned shots of Michaela by Richard Murrien. I also like the rough and tumble look of Zamra by Josef Botello, the gothic fetish cuteness of Valeria by Emma Delves-Broughton, and the dark vintage fetish elegance of Eden by Sabine Schoenberger. The only model to be featured by more than one photographer in the book is altmodel Ulorin Vex (Bizarre , SuicideGirls, Nena Blue by Katja Ehrhardt and by Russell Coleman. Other alt notables include Justine Joli (BlueBlood, StaggStreet) by Nathan Strausse, Dragonlilly (UltimateSurrender) by Octavio Arizala (Vivid-Alt), Kumi (BlueBlood) by Eric Martin, Roxy DeVille (BlueBlood, Vivid-Alt, BurningAngel‘s HeavyMetalPussyParty) by Sexkicks, Lorraine Sisco (BlueBlood) by Christine Kessler (GodsGirls, BlueBlood), Ivy Red (BlueBlood, Hogtied, MenInPain, WaterBondage, WhippedAss) by Aaron Hawks, original alternative fetish pinup queen Julie Strain by Renard F. Garr, and Bob Coulter (CrazyBabe) shooting Nadia Nitro.

Payback Baby offers some of the same community features you’d expect form an AltPorn site these days, blogs, interest groups, polls, and that sort or thing, but what makes theirs more enjoyable is the people involved. The topics are fun and the members are worth interacting with. The photography is very stylish and sexy. It’s not quite as explicit as I might personally prefer in a membership site, but it has a quality I enjoy and it isn’t the same old thing over and over like some other sites. I can honestly say that Payback Baby is one of my favorite new AltPorn sites. Here is some more info on the site and what it was like to launch and such from Mette Th13teen herself.

How has the launch of Payback Baby gone so far? I’ve noticed some really cool people with profiles over there already.

It is going fine, better than expected when it comes to getting members but the members aren’t as active as hoped for, to be honest! The main idea with making it a community with personal profiles, was to give the members a chance to interact and have fun while looking at hot, naked women?! It sounds like perfection to me but I guess, most other fans of alt. erotica feel differently.. Sneaking a peek is probably more dirty than being upfront about it But yeah, we are all happy – I know, I am! I am not the most patient lady out there so a little more action in a little less time would rock but hey, I am really content with the progress so far! As long as we keep getting applications from new models and new members join, I have no reason to complain really…

Now that you have launched, what is your favorite section of the site?

I don’t have one, I think.. Of course, the sets are a pretty big hit with me since I love shooting them both as a model and a photographer!! But the great part is that we have international models also and they have sent in some amazing work and that really makes me go all giddy There are some HOT models out there modeling for some really talented photographers and it is really nice to see that these people want to be a part of a thing, I created! What else…?! I do love the personal profiles and photo albums since that is not a thing all alt. erotica site have these days – that makes us a little different from all the other newcomers the past couple of years.. Also, the groups are fun – I get to know what makes these people tick, what gets them off?! I am a people person, so that is also a great feature on the site..

Hmm… I learned that the we have this thing called “Janteloven” here in Denmark – we are not that many alt. models in Denmark and certainly not that many alt. fetish models in Denmark so I did know that “Janteloven” existed.. The ignorance kinda blew me away though.. I try to just turn the other cheek, but I am not a huge fan of ignorance or arrogance so my temper took the better of me a couple of times before I learned to just don’t give a fuck a let them lead their own miserable existence without my opinion But other then that, it was kinda what I expected it would be! A lot of hard work, tears and sweat but totally worth it! I have been modeling for a couple of sites and been around for some years now and I have learned a thing a two that were nice to have when starting up my own site.. I have been working with people all my life and a lot of those experiences are pretty good to have too! Not every one takes things as serious as I do, not everyone will deliver on time as I will and so on – I am very old fashioned in that way, respect, responsibility and so on. There is a lot of things, I still need to learn as a person to make it all a bit smoother but I do think, I have some nice qualities too when it comes to leading a site

What exactly is ‘Janteloven’?

Janteloven is a set of rules from and old Danish book in the 30’es that the Scandinavian people kinda adopted.. It lives well here in Denmark and basically it is these 10 commandments to live by. To sum them all up, it would be something like “Don’t think you’re anyone special or that you’re better than us” – I found a link that describes it very well.

Launching a new site, especially with all those features, is always more work than you probably think it will be. I can’t help but notice that the navigation is still a little quirky. What has been the most challenging part of putting the site together?

Probably finding a guy to work with on it, the 1st couple of guys bailed on me and with very little finance, it wasn’t easy! I did a lot of work on the site as it looks now but not all – I am not very good with codes and shit, so my bf did that and I am very happy that he came through for me… I know that the backend of Payback Baby! isn’t the best, but considering what we had to work with in the end, I am pretty damn proud of the site! I never cared about those things as a model, I cared more about getting my fair share of respect from the owners, getting replies on my emails rather fast instead of having to wait for months, that the site didnt look like complete and utter crap, the quality of the photo sets, that the site updates went up on time and so on.. So Im hoping that people care about these things too and in time, the sites backend will improve so be patient, guys Like you noticed it isn’t completely perfect yet but we
are still working on it and still learning..

It completely depends on the community! If it is the getting the good old cock pic once in awhile that bothers you, Facebook or Myspace is way worse than these alt. erotica sites! In our case, it was actually photographers, film makers and so on. Before launching the beta site, a lot a those guys wrote my personally and gave me a really hard time; I would never get anywhere, no one would ever want to work with me and so on. Some even came after me personally, apparently I am butch, ugly, come off German (I don’t even wanna know what he meant by that) and so on?! After launching the public site, these guys had the nerve to come back and join the site, try to sell shoots to members and some of the models and so on.. That is why we made the changes in our Terms Of Use! No fucking way in hell, call me uptight and what not but I will not play that way and let those assholes prey on my ladies and members!

Other than that, its pretty basic; be nice to the girls, play nice and show some respect! Up until now, we have only had trouble with 1 model and 1 member that resulted in them leaving the site less then voluntarily and that is just fine with me! We are all adults and we might not all get a long but it is important to me that we all still play nice on the site!! I hope it stays that way..

You have some really hot and amazing girls, how do you go about finding them and approaching them about working with you? Has it changed since you launched your site?

I totally agree and I am very proud of my girls, even though we are “just” 16 at the moment.. Is it wrong to call them my girls? I heart them!! They have been amazing and really supportive!!! Ehmm, back to your question; we don’t actually find them – we have our promo sites like every one else and they usually find us through there! Thank God! And keep coming, ladies We don’t contact girls anymore with the purpose of having the model for us. Before launching the teaser site, we found the first couple of ladies for the site.. We only asked girls that we knew in some way or another so we were sure that these girls were really into the whole thing! Some are friends of mine and some are models, I met on other sites and became friends with and some are just girls, who I shot a time or two.. Some of the ladies are really serious about their modeling career and some of them just love being on the site and get naked in front of my camera and that is enough for them The good thing about it is that it gives us the advantage of having a lot of exclusive girls no one has ever seen before and like you said, they are HOT!

Awwwwww, you poor, ugly American! Ha ha ha ha Funniest question, Ive gotten up until now in like forever! Ill start with the features. On Payback Baby!, there are 2 kinds of membership – the standard member and the paying member. The standard member has limited access to the site and is free, that means no access to the other members personal profiles, the sets and so on. The paying members have access to it all, simple as that! The features, we offer on the site is 5 updates a week, including 1 photo set. We have our so called “Crushes”, that are reviews of movies, music, websites, shops and so on. You get your own personal profile with your own comment section, guest book, photo album, friends list, hotlist, greeting system, blogs and so on. We also have our groups, were members can create new ones and post topics in and what not! Other than that, there is our chat, our Payback Baby! merchandise shops and our polls, which all are allowed to create also.. It is your basic community with all the goods and shit, we just spiced it up with our sets and our Crushes!

Part 2, let me try to explain this without getting your eyes crossed and you thinking about Girl On Girl action instead We charge in Euro because of the financial crisis and being based in Europe. When you join the site, you start out as a standard member and then you upgrade to a paying member with full access through Paypal. This is what a private member pays for a full access membership:

30 days: $5.70 USD
90 days: $14.26 USD
180 days: $25.67 USD
365 days: $45.64 USD

We also offer Business Memberships, which allows you to promote your business, post pictures of your products with intent to sell and so on, those prices are different.

30 days: $18.54 USD
90 days: $51.35 USD
180 days: $99.85 USD
365 days: $188.30 USD
Happy now?

We are going to offer videos – we already have videos in store for you guys but we still need to figure out some details before going live with that feature. We want it to be decent quality and also to show the female body off in ways, Youtube wont allow us too, so… *Grrrrrrrrrrr*. So keep around for that, that is a promise! We are also considering other things like a forum but that is not decided on yet, so I wont go into that to much! There are still some minor quirks and shit, we take care off as fast as we possibly can.. We are still young, we have been public for exactly 1 month today so Happy Anniversary us! As long as the site is up and I am behind it, we will keep improving it and make it a better place to be..

Love to Altporn and all the fans out there from Payback Baby! and Mette Th13teen.

This new multi-girl alt site is more of a diverse photographic collection from photographer Michael Andrews than it is a true multigirl AltPorn site. And by diverse, I don’t mean dark complected Eurasian pumpkin-fuckers, I mean it’s a mixed bag of Alt-models, fetish girls, and cute young tight-bodied blondes. Although some of the girls are cool looking and some of the photography is unquestionably appropriate for the genre, there is a lot of work there that I would say falls outside what we would expect from a site claiming it had “one of the most extensive collection of sexy gothic girls, girls with tattoos and alternative models on the web.” It does not. Or at least, it would be far down on the list is anyone were to make a list of all the sites on the web featuring sexy gothic girls, girls with tattoos and alternative models. Despite the boastful claims we’ve come to expect with every new altporn site launch, you may still find a lot of very hot content. It currently features 118 galleries of hi-res images, with new galleries being added weekly, plus full length hi-rez movies, and the network deal is very good. There are a bunch of sexy and well know alt models on their roster already, and we look forward to more. We don’t currently know about any plans to offer interactive or community features, but if you like sexy and creative photography and want to get access to a lot of content with your membership, check Kaoskittens out.

APN: Blue Blood magazine in print was really ground zero for jump-starting the whole altporn genre and you’ve managed to maintain a top ranking for Blue Blood for more than sixteen years. To what do you credit your remarkable success and longevity?

AG: Thanks. I always hope the universe will smile on me for hard work and doing the right thing, and sometimes it does. A big advantage Blue Blood had in coming to the web is that the magazine was always subscription-driven and we had free sites for the community for years before we launched our first membership site. We actually had paid members before we had even actually launched the first pay site because we tested out a banner rotation for a few minutes and people saw it. I really appreciate the support we’ve gotten over the years and try to really put a lot back into the scene and into having really great creative work on all my sites.

APN: Okay, so, in your bio on your new personal site, your thesis subject really jumped out at me. You wrote your thesis at Wesleyan University on vampire legends as a paradigm for aggressive human sexuality?

AG: I sure did. Kind of funny that it seemed sort of shocking, and outrageous, and possibly frivolous to be writing about that sort of topic, at a school like that, but it actually did turn out to be relevant to my job. The name Blue Blood is sort of a play on words with the blood for vampires and gothic spookyness and the blue meaning erotic as in blue movies, but the blue blood phrase overall connoting a certain tastefulness and strength. Especially in 1992, when I founded Blue Blood, it was very common for alt-identified people to feel like they had to accept second class citizen status. So the strength aspect is really important to the core manifesto for me. The most important message I would like readers or members to get from Blue Blood is that purple hair or tattoos or having kinky sex or otherwise living flamboyantly does not mean you are not entitled to the rewards of the larger society.

APN: Didn’t the magazine have some bloodplay in it as well?

AG: The very first issue of Blue Blood, my friend Fish wrote a how-to article for safe bloodplay. Fish is a tattoo artist now and he was a military medic then, so he’s educated on the subject, but we got so many angry letters about that article. Blue Blood magazine even showed condoms in shoots and the article was about how to do bloodplay safely, so I’m very safety conscious, but some people just do not understand that it is not the extremity of a sexual practice which makes it unsafe. Unfortunately, in the internet distribution channel, we’ve been forced to move away from anything with blood in it.

APN: How does publishing on the internet instead of in print change whether you can have bloodplay?

AG: A lot of people get all caught up with definitions of genre based on what is and is not shown, but what can be shown in media is very dependent on distribution channel. For example, it did not used to be possible to show penetration in a magazine and be distributed on any newsstands outside of adult bookstores. Online, penetration makes no difference in where something can be seen. By contrast, if a web site accepts credit cards for memberships, they are likely to run into difficulties having any blood content. We’ve had to remove photo sets which showed only topless nudity where the girl was playing with blood made of vanilla-flavored corn syrup and food coloring because it was deemed extreme violence. If you watch Skinemax or cable channels like that, you can’t see penetration, but every other flick is a horror-themed excuse to douse topless women with fake blood. So it is not really that some distribution channels allow more and some allow less; they are just different.

APN: So is publishing on the internet harder or easier than in print?

AG: I love magazines. I still contribute to print projects and still create print projects. I love getting to hold a finished magazine in my hand. But the wonderful thing about the internet is that it is possible to go directly to the people who get it, without having to go through some distributor who hasn’t cracked an adult magazine in twenty years and thinks having tattoos is something that only teenagers would do. Despite a few restrictions on things like bloodplay, I find the internet easier from a distro standpoint. I think it is harder from a community standpoint. Back in the all print days, there used to be a lot of events where publishers would get together and we all traded quarter page ads with each and that is less the case for web publishers in this demographic.

APN: How do you feel about how altporn has evolved?

AG: Well, for one thing, I prefer the expression counterculture erotica to altporn, but I think altporn has definitely become the term for subculture-infused erotic media. In some respects, things are much easier today because being offbeat and being naked on camera have both been really destigmatized most places. In some respects, things being easier means
that there are a small percentage of people who decide they want to make altporn who don’t really have the sense of community or individuality which would once have definitely been there. Most people in it are cool, but it has become more difficult to recognize who I have things in common with now, because, for example, there are people who just dress a certain way to be accepted and they don’t really care about personal freedom or get what it is all about.

APN: Your personal pics section on AmeliaG.com is really funny and I spotted so many famous people with you in there. Is your life basically a twenty-four hour party where you go from Hummer limo to book reading to art show to nightclub to fab afterparty?

AG: When I actually do take a moment to go out on the town, I like to make it count. I’m really a workaholic, but I think a gallery of like fifteen shots of me holding a camera and seventy of me sitting at a computer would have been less entertaining than eighty-five of me having fun.

APN: My favorite part of your new AmeliaG.com site is the professional photography portfolio you have on there. I love that you have members of the Misfits, Genitorturers, and Marilyn Manson in there with altstars like Voltaire, Bella Vendetta, and my future wife April Flores and it somehow seems all of a piece. How do you choose who you are going to shoot?

AG: As an artist, it is really important to me that my work be seen, so I like to have an idea of where a shoot might be published. A few hundred people a week apply to appear on the various Blue Blood sites, including BlueBlood.com, BarelyEvil.com, GothicSluts.com, and RubberDollies.com in particular, and there is a submission form on BlueBloodPhoto.com. I, of course, publish other people’s photography even more often than my own on BlueBlood.com etc. and there are only so many hours in the day, but I do photograph select people from the Blue Blood apps. I do take commissions from publications, record labels, and such. In general, I most enjoy photographing people who have a certain spark, star quality, individuality, personal style, and passion for self-expression. Hotness is good, but there needs to be hotness with unique self-expression. After all, I think avoiding just conforming to someone else’s aesthetic is important to being alt.

APN: Thanks so much for your time. Congrats on the launch of AmeliaG.com. It looks fabulous, it is fun to look at, and it is really informative.

AG: Thank you for the interview and the kind words.

The rhetoric still leaves a little to be desired. In their site FAQ, for example, they answer the question:

Is this porn?
“We will never have explicit material on the site. Our models are not required to show full frontal, and nudity will always be tasteful and appropriate. Photographers and models have been blurring the line between art and porn for years, and we seek to further that movement.”

If they are trying to further blur the line, they should stay away from the absolute statements and implied value judgments. I don’t even know what some of that even means. Is hard cock more explicit than limp dick? It seems to imply that if they are always tasteful and appropriate and they are never explicit, one could conclude that they feel explicit isn’t tasteful and appropriate, which I do not agree with. Maybe an argument could be made that shirtless girls would be adult content a site could charge membership fees for, so maybe shirtless guys should be fair adult content to charge for too. But, for my money, I want to know I’m getting adult material worthy of at least a hard ‘R’ rating. I don’t see a single penis in their entire tour.

Despite their manifesto reading like an checklist of indie altporn site cliche’s, like notice that the site is “primarily run by women” as if that somehow makes any positive difference, I do think they have something people might enjoy, they just need more of it. They do get a bag full of bonus points for not telling us they are the ‘first’ of anything and I really do hear a lot about how hard it can be to fine sexy naked cool looking guys on the adult web. I just hope they get over their shy approach and commit to the fact that they have a paid membership site that should feature hot naked alternative guys. They need to jump in with both feet and go for it full on, because if they cling to the idea that their content may or may not get naked, depending on how they feel, etc. then Home for Lost Boys will fail.

I only hope that they understand that we really do want a good entry in the altporn marketplace that features nice photography (and video) showing stylish, attractive, fun, creative, cool guys, so this isn’t meant as pan of the site. It’s a new site and I hope that they think about some of this experienced advice and make the commitments and adjustments required for them to succeed. In the mean time, their introductory prices are not too bad, so check it out for yourself and let them know what you want to see in this sort of site.

You do great work both in front of the camera as well as behind it. What are the challenges to working both sides and what do you see as the advantages?

First of all, thanks! I don’t really see any challenges, only advantages.. Every time, I model, I can learn something new as a photographer, by watching the photographer work, and by asking questions if they work differently in some way. When I shoot people, I know, how it feels to be on the other side of the camera and can give advise to first time models because, I know how it feels and what works and what makes it easier and more fun.

Do you work primarily in Copenhagen, Denmark, or do you travel a lot for your work?

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark so even though, there isn’t that many opportunities here, most of them is in Copenhagen, so I do most of my work here. As a model, I travel a bit around the country but mostly work in Copenhagen. I do some modeling work for people in the other end of Denmark, but those shoots mainly take place here as well. Its a bit different as a photographer, I do some traveling in Denmark but also around Scandinavia and Europe, that depends mostly on where my work for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine takes place, tattoo conventions, interviews and so on.

Which came first, the modeling or the photography, and did one lead to the other?

I have been photographing, on and off, since I was around 13 years old, but until 2004, my work was a lot different. All my work was analog and black & white photos and I never used models. In 2004, I was asked to model for a Swedish photographer, that was my first time modeling, and I really didn’t like the pictures and I was like “I can seriously do this better than him” and that provoked me to start shooting models. I borrowed a camera from a friend and started shooting friends, to find out which style felt most like mine, lighting, which angels worked best for the different types and how to edit model pics in Photoshop and so on. And I have been trying ever since

As a model, what sites and publications have you appeared in?

Other than the various sites of photographers, I have worked with, I did a cover+article for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine in 2004 and that was my first publication. Since then, I started modeling for Broken Dollz, both my sets for them, has been on Altporn, so I appeared there ;), an upcoming alt. erotic site called Perverse Fixation, which I am fucking excited about! I have also modeled for 3xL, a well known Danish rubber enthusiast, his webblog is one of the best in the fetish scene, if you ask me! Rock Confidential Magazine did a feature on me, I also do a lot rubber modeling for this amazing custom rubber designer called Heavyrubber, basically all my rubber has been made by him and I love it! There is a Danish site called publicfetishgirls.com, I have done some videos, of me wearing rubber in public, for them and I definitely will do more, that is really fun. I also modeled for Vandal X Klothing and for Wicked Ink, they are both t-shirt designers. My most recent job, was a music video for a metal band called Volbeat, that was a lot of fun, I have never done that before but I fucking hope that I get to do that again! I don’t really keep track and this is what I can remember I hope to do more publications, covers, music videos and modeling, because I really love that and it always adds an edge to it, when I model for stuff, that is going out there instead of “just” for my site!!

I just saw some of the beautiful covers you’ve been shooting for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine. As a photographer, what sites and publications have you worked with so far?

I haven’t done much as a photographer, it’s not that, I don’t love it, but I do more modeling.. I work for Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine and that is my main thing, doing covers+posters+writing articles and so on. I shot some rubber sets for Heavyrubber.dk, some live shows for sceneskrekk.com, the site of a Norwegian freakshow – those pictures appeared on bmezine.com as well. I did a set for perversefixation.com and some work for flyers+posters for the largest Danish alternative online community. The last thing, I can think of, is a live shoot of a Danish rockabilly band called Wild Wax Combo…

What publications and sites would you like to work with in the future either as a photographer or a model?

Like I mentioned earlier, I would love to do more!! But I don’t have anything new planned, other than the sites, I already work with, like www.perversefixation.com, www.publicfetishgirls.com, www.heavyrubber.dk, www.brokendollz.com, Scandinavian Tattoo Magazine, www.lustlovelatex.com and so on.. I’m pretty excited about what the future brings and I´m open to any offer, I get!

I was just looking at your Th13teen.net portfolio site and saw some of the amazingly sexy rubber fetish photos you’ve been appearing in lately and it occurred to me that the European alt and fetish scenes seem to have a lot more crossover than they do here in America. Do you feel there are specific reasons the mix is better over there or are we just behind the times over here?

Thanks a lot! I actually don’t think that the European scenes cross over more than the American, not that I have noticed or know of. The Danish alternative scene and fetish scene, are both pretty small and we basically all know each other or of each other, there are really only a couple of alt. models that also does fetish shoots. The fetish scene is a lot bigger than the alt. scene here and we always have a lot of European and Scandinavian guests at the fetish parties, but I always seem to be the only alt. model that goes to the parties, but there are some fetish models there too! If anybody is behind the times, I would guess that it would be us, Denmark is pretty old fashioned in some ways and body modifications, fetishes and stuff like that, is still not really accepted and kept at home.. New things and change takes time here!

How would you define altporn and what should it ideally represent in your opinion?

Alt. porn is a huge specter for me! It contains everything that the fashion modeling and commercial world doesn’t and that is what I love about it! That there is room for people, that stand out and are proud of it! Not everybody thinks, that the perfect woman is blond, skinny as hell and has big boobs! There should be room for all of us, I think that, it is what makes us exciting – the fact that we are all different, individuals! Like fetishes, some gets a hard on from touching a balloon and some from checking out girls with tattoos, that gives us the possibility to actually learn something from each other..

The European adult/erotic/porn world seems incredibly more diverse than the mainstream adult industry in the States. Does AltPorn really stand out as much there as it does here?

It might really stand out more here, even though the scene is small, the people, that are a part of it, are proud of it and enjoy being themselves and expressing themselves the exact way, they love! We don’t have that many people “to look up to” so there are not really any guide lines and that probably gives room for more diversity.. I guess that forces us to take a stand as an individual instead of just following the “non-existent” mainstream adult/erotic/porn scene.

You have some great tattoo work, what are some of your favorite tattoo studios?

I would have to say Uncle Allan at Conspiracy Inc. – he is amazing and really respected all over the world! He did a lot of my work.. Besides that, it is really a matter of what tattoo style, you like.. But sticking to the Danish ones, Nick The Electric Pick is also incredible, he is Canadian but works with Uncle Allan at Conspiracy Inc. and Alex, a Scottish guy living here in Copenhagen, his studio is called Rites Of Passage, he does some kick ass realistic work! We talked about doing a little (big) something on me but you will have to wait and see

Does it make a difference to you if a site or publication is run by a woman or a man?

Not at all! The only thing, that matters to me, is respect!! Nothing more, nothing less…

If you could improve the altporn genre or culture, what changes would you make? What would you get rid of and what would you encourage?

I don’t think, there is anything, I personally, would change or improve – it is a very diverse world! Every site has its own manager and that manager is different from any other manager of any other site. Their personal taste, opinions and so on, comes out through the site and that is what, you judge the site on. In overall, I can’t really think of anything.. I have had very little bad experiences, the ones, I have had, are based on how the manager, wants their site to be and you can’t really blame them for disagreeing with me Some people in the culture might think, that they can do what they want, because the genre is some what small and leaves f.ex. models, with not that many other opportunities, so we “have” to settle.. They are wrong though, the culture is getting bigger and bigger by the day and still more and more people, accept and approve of it, but it is still small enough for the word to get out, so all they really do, is shoot themselves in the ass!

Be sure to check out her site: http://www.th13teen.net

I’m a digital artist, photographer and filmmaker residing in Los Angeles. CA. I’ve spent the last decade specializing in horror and fantasy art. In 2002 I started doing erotic photography and recently started directing.

Who are some photographers you’ve found inspirational or influential?

Joel-Peter Witkin, David LaChapelle, Brad Miller

Who are some of your favorite models to work with?

Adrianne Anderson, Amanda Jilesse, Azrielle, Zoetica Ebb, Perish, Twink

What equipment do you typically use?

Nikon D100, Mamiya 645s, Nikon 8008s

Favorite publications/sites?

Rue Morgue magazine, Juxtapoz, Hustler’s Taboo, BlueBlood.net

Where has your work been featured?

Rue Morgue, Skin Two, Aphrodesia, Spectrum, Gothic Beauty, Tattoo Savage, Carpe Noctem, Club International, Gallery, Pit, Dark Realms

[Ed: you can also see a boatload of Chad Michael Ward’s photography on Blueblood.com, officially launching on July 4th]

Contact info

chad@digitalapocalypse.com
www.digitalapocalypse.com

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