…in the Studio with S.
Kategorie: Portrait
Multi-Dimensional Glamour
Brittany Bochart is a traveling model that I hired when she visited Las Vegas. She is very talented at posing and has been a model for most of her life. She's very artistic and creative, which makes my process of photography much easier. Some models don't like the weird/surreal outcomes of the double exposures, but fellow artists always do.
I used my Lomo Instant Wide camera, outfitted with the Splitzer attachment for multiple exposure masking and standard Fuji Instax Wide film (ISO800)
Prints are available in any size.
Small flat, big sofa
Morning sun
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1) © Photographer Michael Hemingway Participants: Aurora
2) © Photographer Marc Gaillot
3) »Allium*« © Photographer Claudy B.
4) »Dimanche à Paris« © Model Minh-Ly
5) »portrait of a lady« © Photographer Laura Daddabbo
6) »Satsuki« © Photographer Imar
7) »Maya 2« © Photographer Latelier
8) »By Bayek photography« © Model noa_the_model
9) »Floating by Carlos Rodrigues« © Model Rahel van der Meer
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Teilnehmer: Model Aurora / Fotograf bayek photography / Fotografin Claudy B. / Fotograf Imar / Fotograf Latelier / Fotografin Laura Daddabbo / Fotograf Marc Gaillot / Fotograf Michael Hemingway / Model Minh-Ly / Model noa_the_model / Model Rahel van der Meer
Between Presence and Absence
A body before it remembers itself. A pause where intention forgets to hold on. Not the pose, not the gesture — but the breath that slips between what was meant and what dissolves.
The face opens like a question it doesn't ask. The gaze arrives after the fact, or leaves before the moment closes. Skin becomes threshold, glass becomes doubt, light becomes the thing that grazes without claiming.
There is restraint here, but it isn't refusal. Vulnerability drifts at the edge of sight — it lives in stillness, in the narrow distance between too close and already gone, in the frictions of proximity that never quite resolve.
Nothing arrives at certainty. No gesture completes its arc. Only the body, briefly unmoored, moving through shadow the way a thought moves through silence — restless, elusive, refusing to land.
This is not about knowing who someone is. It is about the instant identity loosens its architecture — when presence thins to membrane, when the act of looking becomes a shared suspension, uncertain and quietly breathing.
Die Bedeutung von Zeit
Suse neulich während unseres Berlintrips.
Wir haben diese Tour primär dafür genutzt, um Menschen zu treffen und ein wenig Kultur zu erleben. Und natürlich auch, um das Vibrieren der Großstadt zu spüren. Was sehr beeindruckend für Kleinstadtmenschen wie uns sein kann.
Es ist wichtig, sich bei all dem auch Zeit für sich zu nehmen. Z.B. für Gespräche und Spaziergänge.
Oder einfach auch fürs nichts tun, und ein wenig Musik zu genießen.
Denn solche Reisen planen wir ohne vollgestopften Stundenplan. Es werden keine hektischen To-Do Listen vorbereitet und abgearbeitet.
Sondern wir versuchen runter zu kommen. Anzukommen. Zu uns zu finden.
Etwas was im Alltag leider oft untergeht.
Natürliche gibt es Dinge, an die wir uns halten müssen. Fahrpläne, Öffnungszeiten, Verabredungen…
Doch sollten wir uns den Luxus gönnen zwuischen all diesen Notwendigkeiten genug Zeit zu lassen. Zeit für uns, Zeit für Muße und Entspannung.
Wir müssen den grauen Herren, die uns die Zeit stehlen, einfach mal die Tür vor der Nase zuschlagen. Und uns nehmen, was uns zusteht.
Auch Langeweile gehört dazu. Vielen ist dieses Gefühl unangenehm. Viele brauchen immer was zu tun.
Aber es sind in meinen Augen genau diese Momente, wo nix passiert, keine Aufgaben anstehen, die wertvoll sind. Geben sie mir Zeit für mich. Wo ich Gedanken fließen und Ideen entwickeln kann.
Dazu mal ein "medizinischer" Rat:
https://youtu.be/sH2BjOc2M7s?si=4qdEhQ1V5Tz3LYsi
Daneben war natürlich Zeit für ein paar Bilder, was sonst? Ganz spontan, morgens.
Mehr davon:
https://dirkbee-fotografie.com/2025/10/24/in-bed-with-2/
Suse Küstenkind
Wie immer, tiefster Dank!
Teilnehmer: Model Suse Kuestenkind
Backroom III
Velvet, Wine, and the Truth of the Night
In the dimmed glow of the "Red Salon," Frau Katzenblum enjoyed the silence of the backroom, while the amber radiance of the whiskey in her glass played with the warm, sparse light of the few existing lamps. Guided only by available light, her contours merged gently with the deep shadows of the surroundings into a scene of pure intimacy. The heaviness of the old furniture and the omnipresent deep red formed a space in which she moved with a calm, almost meditative elegance. It was a silent dialogue between model and room, captured in the genuine mood of the moment that only existing light can draw so authentically.
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2) »..poppy fields..« © Photographer Tempus Fugit Photo
3) »sadaf« © Photographer samira hesami
4) »anastasiia_chutteva« © Photographer lichtundschattenulm
5) »old memories« © Photographer Laura Daddabbo
6) »Nine« © Photographer Martial Rossignol
7) »Sophy« © Photographer Imar
8) »going up to go down…« © Photographer DirkBee with kupferhaut
9) »Anna« © Photographer Hamidreza Sheikhmorteza
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Backroom II
In the heavy, dim light of the backroom, which captured the quiet intensity of a speakeasy in its final hours, we searched for the tragic behind the glamour. Frau Katzenblum embodied the flapper girl not with laughter, but with a pensive, grave mood, as the whiskey sat on the table like a silent witness. Her fake drunken state was a deliberate portrayal of the emptiness that can hide behind the glittering facade. We used the shadows of that room to capture the vulnerability and gravity that often stand in opposition to the myth of the "Roaring Twenties."
Teilnehmer: Model Frau Katzenblum