Here’s an excerpt from my book Orgasm in which Amelia remembers her first sexual experiences: “I remember one time when I was about twelve years old putting a sheet between my legs and rubbing against it and it felt really good. But at that point I still wasn’t sure if I even had a vagina. …
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After an interview for Orgasm, I’d talk to the woman about how she wished to be photographed while using my own intuition and eyeing the location, her clothes or objects there to offer ideas. In the shoot in Colombia, Marcela said she wished to show her strongest orgasm that happened after her boyfriend asked her …
Read morePhotographer’s Journey: The orgasmic experience of a wedding proposal
In my photo and interview book Orgasm Annie describes the first time she felt the incomparable joy of an orgasm one night at the beach: “I met a guy who was ten years older than me, who had a motorcycle and owned a hippie coffee shop. And he was an artist. I think I needed …
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Some colleagues, curators and experts have written about my photographs which provides feedback and shows me that my process is useful and important. Mimi Schippers, Professor at University of New Orleans, wrote: “There are very few people who, in our pornified society, can visually capture and eroticize the female and feminine body without objectifying it. …
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Orgasm has come to mean a replenishment of energy – a vibrating splash that throws you into the cave and you end up floating with this feeling. It’s like tiny pearls popping off of a strand — pearls that pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop until it’s over. It puts you in a …
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Maria Beatty, a filmmaker who lived on the 5th floor of the Chelsea Hotel, was among the first women to agree to be in my book Erotic Lives of Women. As a hotel lobby friend she trusted me, so she invited us (co-editor Marion and I) to her room to shoot her and a partner’s …
Read morePhotographer’s journey: Changing my photographic style for Maria Beatty
As a child I stood in the hall outside the open door of my parents’ bedroom listening to the sound of my father’s breathing. He couldn’t sleep. My mother said I mustn’t disturb him as he was recovering from a heart attack and was weak from his World War II injuries. He was in his …
Read morePhotographer’s journey: Discovering and exploring my sexuality for the first time