Madame Bink

This is a new direction for me. I did toy with studio work a couple of years ago, but never really followed up on it as I got distracted by the streets. Having lost my street mojo, I figured I would give the studio work a proper crack and more specifically nude stuff. I have yet to work out exactly where I'm going with this, but I'm clear that I don't want to get into the numpty glamour / porn side of things. I suspect I will head in the direction of the fine art nude (I hate this term - it feels like an apology for enjoying the process of photographing naked people, an attempt to make it something more than it is), erotic and surreal categories. Basically if I can get anywhere near Bob Carlos Clarke or Helmut Newton then I figure I'm doing well.

Anyhow, after a bit of research I found Madame Bink and booked her for a day in her London studio (http://madamebink.co.uk/). Bink is great, not at all what I expected. She is very professional, but also really laid back and easy to work with. She also knows her eggs both in front of and behind the camera, so I actually learned a lot from her. So much so that I'm wondering if the quality of the pictures is down to me or her. Naturally I will tell everyone that it's down to me.

We spent the day going through a series of sets focused on nude, fashion and my current obsession with doing weird blurred stuff. So I'm going to do a series of posts covering the different styles. This first post is the classical nude stuff.