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Ryley Brown
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"Why," you ask? Because we want profile pages to have freedom of customization, but also to have some consistency. This way, when anyone visits a deviant, they know they can always find the art in the top left, and personal info in the top right.
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Now go forth and astound us all with your devious profiles!
I'm posting this here as well as in comment on my image thread, in the hope that if you choose to response you'll do so within three months this time...
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Re. the term "artist" - no problem, I used the term loosely to describe contributors to deviantArt in general. But you're questioning whether I consider MYSELF artist. Fair question, but probably not for me to answer. Ask the people who leave positive comments on my images. Ask the people who purchase my images from any of four UK galleries that exhibit them permanently. Ask the advertisers and publishers who have purchased stock rights to my images (through alamy.com and istockphoto.com). Ask my models.
As for your judgment on the lack of monogamy in my work - that seems more based on your own moral code and has nothing to do with aesthetics. It is also as much a criticism of the models who choose to work with me, as much as it is of me.
You seem to be criticising a lack of monogamy which extends into my personal life - I have a very happy, very open relationship with my partner in which we both enjoy intimacy with others but always gravitate back to each other. We're open with each other and with our other partners. The same is true of my models. They understand what I'm trying to portray with them and none has complained about the result - even the several who are photographers and artists in their own right (in this instance I do NOT use the term 'artist' loosely). In fact I've only ever heard compliments of the images from the models' own partners. It's a very naive assumption on your part that the models are somehow my victims. As for 'tick in the box' - frankly that's more of an insult to the models and their professionalism than it is to me (or is your real criticism here of the lack of judgment that these poor women are exercising in working with me?).
I've dug out some numbers for you. Interpret them as you will. Of the twenty two models I have worked with, I have worked with fourteen of them more than once. I have worked with three of them more than five times. Of the twenty-two, eight approached me requesting a shoot, while five were referred to me by models I had worked with (would they really have referred their friends if they felt my work had done them a discredit). Of the twenty-two models only five have resulted in actual sexual relations - and most of that real sexual contact happened outside the confines of the shoots. These sessions are posed, just like most of the model images on this website. I run these sessions in order to create images of intimacy - not in order to enjoy intimacy. I can do that much easier WITHOUT a camera. Frankly I would have thought that was obvious (although obviously if you were convinced by the intimacy in the images then I would say that half of my job at least has succeeded on you, my status as artist possibly half acquired).
And of that twenty two women I don't believe any needed DEFENDING from my apparently exploitative nature, as you imply.
Anyway. That's enough from me for now.
If you have any feedback on the images themselves, no matter how harsh, I'm happy to hear it. But all you've been able to criticise so far is mine and my models' morality. Is deviantArt really the best forum for that?
You're absolutely right. Forgetting about the artistic merit for a second, I was expressing a moral objection to what you photograph...
But don't get me wrong, I don't have an objection to "intimate" photography. I consider myself to have an extremely open and liberal mind in that regard. So had you photographed yourself fucking a horse and done it in an interesting and creative way, I would have been the first to compliment you. Which I guess is the point...
In my opinion your photos are rubbish, dude. Pull out all the figures you want, and tell me about your booking schedule until your blue in the face, but it doesn't change the fact that your photos don't stimulate my senses at all. They're annoyingly amateur, which is why they sit so well on deviant art. You've applied an atrociously bad soft filter, and shot in black & white for no good reason.
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Re. the term "artist" - no problem, I used the term loosely to describe contributors to deviantArt in general. But you're questioning whether I consider MYSELF artist. Fair question, but probably not for me to answer. Ask the people who leave positive comments on my images. Ask the people who purchase my images from any of four UK galleries that exhibit them permanently. Ask the advertisers and publishers who have purchased stock rights to my images (through alamy.com and istockphoto.com). Ask my models.
As for your judgment on the lack of monogamy in my work - that seems more based on your own moral code and has nothing to do with aesthetics. It is also as much a criticism of the models who choose to work with me, as much as it is of me.
You seem to be criticising a lack of monogamy which extends into my personal life - I have a very happy, very open relationship with my partner in which we both enjoy intimacy with others but always gravitate back to each other. We're open with each other and with our other partners. The same is true of my models. They understand what I'm trying to portray with them and none has complained about the result - even the several who are photographers and artists in their own right (in this instance I do NOT use the term 'artist' loosely). In fact I've only ever heard compliments of the images from the models' own partners. It's a very naive assumption on your part that the models are somehow my victims. As for 'tick in the box' - frankly that's more of an insult to the models and their professionalism than it is to me (or is your real criticism here of the lack of judgment that these poor women are exercising in working with me?).
I've dug out some numbers for you. Interpret them as you will. Of the twenty two models I have worked with, I have worked with fourteen of them more than once. I have worked with three of them more than five times. Of the twenty-two, eight approached me requesting a shoot, while five were referred to me by models I had worked with (would they really have referred their friends if they felt my work had done them a discredit). Of the twenty-two models only five have resulted in actual sexual relations - and most of that real sexual contact happened outside the confines of the shoots. These sessions are posed, just like most of the model images on this website. I run these sessions in order to create images of intimacy - not in order to enjoy intimacy. I can do that much easier WITHOUT a camera. Frankly I would have thought that was obvious (although obviously if you were convinced by the intimacy in the images then I would say that half of my job at least has succeeded on you, my status as artist possibly half acquired).
And of that twenty two women I don't believe any needed DEFENDING from my apparently exploitative nature, as you imply.
Anyway. That's enough from me for now.
If you have any feedback on the images themselves, no matter how harsh, I'm happy to hear it. But all you've been able to criticise so far is mine and my models' morality. Is deviantArt really the best forum for that?
Best.
JL.
But don't get me wrong, I don't have an objection to "intimate" photography. I consider myself to have an extremely open and liberal mind in that regard. So had you photographed yourself fucking a horse and done it in an interesting and creative way, I would have been the first to compliment you. Which I guess is the point...
In my opinion your photos are rubbish, dude. Pull out all the figures you want, and tell me about your booking schedule until your blue in the face, but it doesn't change the fact that your photos don't stimulate my senses at all. They're annoyingly amateur, which is why they sit so well on deviant art. You've applied an atrociously bad soft filter, and shot in black & white for no good reason.
So there's some honest feedback about the "art".
All the best.
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