Congrats to Necil Bug!
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Originally uploaded by Necil Bug. Hey, look! Necil Bug is an 18-year-old Brit photographer of whose work Savant and I are quite fond (naturally) and look look, she got a photospread in the Daily Mail in London Thursday!
And another the day before that, in the British Sun newspaper, oh, sooooo 'dorable!
Her photos at Flickr are right here. Under her mundane name, Jessica (Jess) Florence, she aspires to become a children's fashion photographer, but I hope she has the opportunity for much more than that. She's off to Portsmouth University in fall 2009; I hope they can do right by her. Her work - not the rat portraits, the rest of it - shows a terrific maturity already, and I wish her well.
She is, as you can imagine, very sweet (at least in email) and very much in love with her own rat. Go see the photos, you'll see what I mean. And when she's as famous as Wegman, you can say you saw her back when. :)
CONGRATULATIONS, NECILBUG!