Note: The photos bellow where taken by me but are not representative of my artistic work. To view my official Photography please click here.

I’ve hesitated a lot before deciding to publish this post. I was thinking the content probably fits my Facebook page better, but then the image quality on there is pure rubbish so I thought: why not?

I spent from December 1st /09  to January 3rd /10 in Colombia, half promoting my work and exhibiting, half visiting my family&friends and just having fun. I took several pictures, although not as many as I had planned before the trip. I first wanted to take zillions of pictures, particularly of the beautiful urban landscapes that many people abroad don’t know about (because sadly, a lot of people think Colombia is just an extremely dangerous jungle filled with drug dealers and guerrillas…which is rather far from the truth), and share them here. However, to be honest in Colombia I hardly felt like taking my camera out. I just wanted to be there and enjoy the experience for real -and not behind the camera-. Now I’m hating, for instance, not to have taken enough pictures of Bogotá, my city, the capital.

I did take some pictures, of those things that caught my eye strongly enough as to make me take over my laziness and get the camera working. Most of these pictures where taken in Los Llanos and Subachoque, two very different places with different landscapes and weather, but in the same country. I really enjoyed my time there. Now I’m back on track, in France, with some interesting projects ahead and a lot of pictures to edit from last year. In the mean time, let me just share a bit of where I come from with you…

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Click here to read the first part of this entry (i.e. more pics!). Click on the images to enlarge.

These last three are more like outtakes:

Model: Belladonna Friis.

I still have to finish editing the watermelon pics I mentioned in the last post, taken the same weekend of Bella’s shooting. Aaaand…last Friday I had an awesome photoshoot in a profesional studio, with a Phase One camera, two beautiful models and amazing clothes from a local store. I have several hours of post-processing ahead!

Some of you may have seen a preview of this shooting through my Facebook page. The same weekend I went to deliver Kirsty’s painting in Paris, I also had two scheduled photo shoots: 1) With Clara Garrido, a close friend from Colombia -who’s served as a model in a couple of my paintings and photographs- including the most expensive watermelon I’ve ever bought (20 euros!!)…you’ll get to see those soon, hopefully! 2) With Belladonna Friis, fashion model working in Paris.

Here’s the first part of my work with Belladonna:

These 6 photos are certainly not the most glamorous because, although fashion was intended to be the main thing, I was trying to keep everything within my personal artistic universe. Bella was great to work with, very creative and enthusiastic, aside from being a beautiful and great model. These are definitely some of my favorites from the shooting. The last B&W picture showcases two of her paintings in the background.

After the ‘domestic’ scenes we passed on to a more ‘fashionistic’ atmosphere. At the end of the session Bella ended up taking a bath with her clothes on! Stay tuned for the rest!

A photo from this summer (click to enlarge)…models are Agathe and Aziliz. There are more from this shooting to come…

ps: Click here to see pics from the exhibition in Bourges, mentioned in my last post.

Last week I had a photo session with a beautiful girl from Rennes, Chloé Collewet. She’s a former drawing student of mine, and she turned out being a wonderful model! The idea was to get more material for the “special portfolio” I’d mentioned, which consists basically of a group of ‘edgy and fashionable’ photos I’m gathering for my agent. -For those who don’t know, fashion is one of my big passions!-. Chloé kindly agreed to pose for me, as well as bring garments of her own, previously chosen by me, to create different ‘looks’. All pictures where taken in my neighborhood; I had a lot of fun doing styling, makeup, etc, for each one of the shoots.

I actually wasn’t planning to show all these images here, but I really like them! Here go some outtakes too:

On another note, I will be exhibiting for the second time in France in the following months. More about this soon!

There’s a sense of absurdity that fills everything in my life at the moment, weakening all statement, ideal, hope or belief. Since I don’t have much to say lately, instead of waiting to be struck by an idea, I find myself thinking of interesting angles from which to capture places I pass by and people I encounter.

I’m also finding more and more difficult to play with images in Photoshop; I’m only tweaking contrast and saturation, and that’s about it. The type of photographs I usually enjoy has changed too. These days I like simpler images without much trickery involved, good compositions and color combinations, nothing pretentious or overnice. Even better if it’s something disturbing and appealing. I run upon this kind of images more often in fashion magazines/ web-zines than in ‘art’ circles…some examples: Lina Scheynius, Janieta Eyre and Terry Richardson.

During my holiday in Sweden I took several touristy snap shots. Nevertheless, I managed to capture some images I consider good enough to upload here. They are a fair example of what I said above. *Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

Models: Tove Florén, whom you may recognize from previous photos, and me.

I just got back from a trip to Sweden where I took some photos that might turn into something worth sharing. While I do some post-processing, I’d like to post a few photos from the last month. The first one is part of the “special portfolio” I mentioned here. The other two, “Medicine and Weapons” and “M”, are explorations on the subject of women’s masturbation. Although I was a bit unsure about them at the beginning, they’ve grown on me. I feel a slight change of style is developing in my photography, probably as a result of my general boredom with art and images these days…

*Click on the images to enlarge.