German artist seeks Latvian girls for photography project

German artist seeks Latvian girls for photography project.

Style: Fine Art Nudes, artistic staging of the female body, nude or with clothes, with or without objects and clothes.

Period: August or September 2011.

Location: Hotel in Riga or Hotel at the Baltic Sea.

Please contact, ask your questions or make own suggestions.
Thanks!

Siggard

It sounds like everybody nowadays feeling himself an "artist" just having a modern digital camera equipped with an extended objective. I think you must know that there are a lot of such photographers around, but rarely there are really artists.

Ok, if you are an artist, can you prove that? Do you have a showcase of your works?

Also, what kind of benefits girls would have applying to your offer? Or is it just yet another freelance "hobby" project?

Siggard
Germans , will it be OK if the applicants are Jews ?

LordMilton

Of course it will be alright if the applicants are jews or from any other religious groups.
I´m not interested in anything like this.

I have no prejudices or blank refusal of anybody. And so should you do.

yuta

I see, you understand what I´m talking about and you have correct questions or experience.
The benefits girls get are to discuss by private e-mail. But girls will get benefits.

Also I will send my portfolio with sample pictures of my work, or – when finished in April – you can have a look at my homepage.

At 9th April I have my next exhibition. Therefore there is much work to do. Please have patience, if I don´t answer fast. But I try to answer your questions as soon as possible and I try to answer detailed.

Am I an artist?
Does this mean having studied at a School of Art? -> Well I don´t.

If it means having exhibitions and going into public and getting feedback (positive or negative) from visitors –> Yes I doand get.

If it means selling many high priced pictures and getting rich with the work –> so I´m not an artist or just a poor artist. I can´t live from the income as an artist – but I can finance my artistic work.

What´s fact: I can´t afford professional models.

So you are not a professional model but on your way and I´m on my way getting a professional artist.

Why I´m searching in Latvia?
In October 2010 I met a girl in Ibiza who was from Latvia. We discussed my pictures taken on Ibiza and she suggested I should also go to her home country.
Now I´m searching for semi-professional models or beginners for having fun by taking pictures.

Siggard
Your reply still shows the amateur nature of your request. If you don't provide links to your portfolio, don't call the exact price to pay to models, it all doesn't look solid. I wish you good luck in that, but you shall keep in mind you are not the only one who wants to picture nude girls. Far not the only one.

In Latvia, the most glorious and famous photographer taking pictures of nude Latvian girls, would be Sergei Kondrashin. For many years he runs the project called "Calendar.lv". This is an exclusive calendar which is not even sold, but distributed only in private areas and friends. In 2010 he also made a reality show, taking pictures of naked girls in most unpredictable situations.

I think if you can't call yourself a professional beating mr. Kondrashin, you have no chance to get a nice girl to be photographed, because all girls are already "taken" by Sergei, or at least most of those ready to pose nude, compete each other to pose for Calendar.

However of course this is only for "elite" girls having extra ordinary look. For regular girls, you may still try to have a luck, but yet knowing how much do you offer for such process, would make your offer much more solid and understood.

Plomb

I thought and think being honest it´s the right way.
Why should I claim being the big one and only, the artist well known in press and TV.
But I´m not the hobby photographer who needs the models for his own and private photo-book.

Yes, I can´t compare myself with professional photographers like your example.

Yes, I have no staff, just me and the model.

Yes the girls won´t be published by Playboy or Penthouse or anything like this.

But if the pictures are good they will be shown at my exhibitions in little galleries.

So I am on my way. Step by step.

Who will participate?

Follow me on Facebook. There you see some work. Or wait until April as written above.

Siggard
If you would be a girl, what kind of reaction would you have regarding such offer? Just imagine: you are not a professional, in general, nothing is known about you. Everybody could say he has "small exhibitions". So you are not the one who would make the nude model famous.

THEN I would say I would take a look at examples of your work - and there are still none. You say you are on Facebook, but I don't know under which address.

That would be not a problem - many private photographers are picturing for their pleasure, but you are not making a solid money offer as well.

I am wondering, that after that all, you still have a hope to take nude photos And I am wondering you definitely can find a girl who would agree to do that with you just because she's crazy

Thanks for the info.

i read many different opinion about this topic
but i don"t know which one is correct