Girl With Camera

[dancinglights]

Molly Crabapple, artist and founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, wrote recently for Vice magazine about her former life as an alternative model, burlesque dancer, and, in her words, 'Professional Naked Girl'. Occasionally friends ask me why I lament certain photographically-based portraits never getting out of my head into the real world and

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[wetdryvac]

*shrugs

[wetdryvac]

Right, left out a critical bit re: No more and no less taking place than contracted for. Any contract I sign onto has opt-outs - the means by which both shooter and model can extract, and what money or other stuff changes hands in that case

[dancinglights]

Thanks for all this. I was hoping I'd get an response from you (and some Professional Naked Girls I know) by bringing this up, and I'm glad I have. I've needed advice like this for wrangling standard-procedure culture and roles and expectations. What I *want* to do, for some of my work, is step out of that entirely, working with friends, building a setting and trading off roles, teaching one another parts of what is ultimately a collaborative process as we go. But sometimes I am going to have to work like this, too, and the sheer prevalence of creepos in certain scenes has always kept me from wanting to try.

[wetdryvac]

*nods