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05-02-2005 |
In today's photographic horizon, one way photographers seem to use to look more "artsy", is to go down the fetish path.
 Corsets, high heels, the whole shebang. I've stopped counting how many nudes in gas masks I have seen in the last few years, and I'm not on the web full-time looking at fetish photography websites...
Fetish is hard to point down in photography, in theory it is supposed to be about turning non-sexual objects or body part into objects of desire, but erotisation is in the eye of the beholder, and successful fetish photography can be tricky, because it is particularly easy to fall in clichés, and equally easy to fall into the pornographic.
The internet has jumbled many people's conception of the erotic, and the omnipresence of pornography has "dulled" the erotic sense of many people, and things that might have seemed kinky beyond the conception of many people are now almost mainstream, and the "porno chic" movement of the last decade is a good example of that.
I am still exploring the possibilities of my creative ideas, and I like some of the fetish work that is out there, but I've found that I'm usually producing nude images that are too "soft" (not in a focus sense...) to be considered fetish, I'm probably too much of a nice guy...
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