RockstarVanity Photography

- Model and performer portfolio development
- Band, musician and DJ promo etc
- Conceptual portraiture
- Fetish, nude and boudoir portraiture
- Designer and stylist portfolio
- Merchant promotion
- Print publication, digital media and editorial
- Art commissions including dark/horror
- Studio hire and tuition

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Art should invoke an emotional reaction. Lust and fear are two sides of the same coin. There is beauty in everything...

Background
I am based in Edinburgh and my background in photography is mainly artistic (horror/SFX/conceptual) and portraiture-related. I served my time in college getting an HND (A) in Photography and have since worked as a freelance photographer, more recently acquiring my own studio which I hire out to other snappers where I'm not shooting in there myself.

Ethos
Art has been my passion for as long as I can remember and it's still the most important thing to me when I'm working. I will never describe myself as an (insert genre here) photographer and I do not shoot to formulas. I believe that all photography should be artistic and memorable, whether it's for a magazine cover, a romantic couple portrait or a model's portfolio.

Style
I am passionate about the unusual and unconventional and mostly work in the fields of alternative lifestyles/fashion..gothic, rock, metal, industrial, club, psychadelic, body art/modification, fetish, modern pin-up, alternative glamour, subversive fashion, music promotion, horror etc. I have more than a minor obsession with experimental lighting and maintain that coloured gels are almost always a positive addition to a shoot.

About Photoshop
You are already beautiful. Your beauty can be enhanced with make-up and lighting but it goes against everything I believe about the deliciousness of human appearances to excessively digitally edit your face and remove all character in an attempt to iron out 'flaws'. Your individual quirks and unique features are what makes you YOU, and I would never try (or want) to erase your personality from your face.