FAVORITE MODELS

I always prefer to work with a few models often rather than a lot of models just once or twice.   From time to time I will post photos of some of my favorite models from over my years of photographing models for my website Album Erotica.    Here you will see Tangent, Kaylee, Joceline, and Brandi.   Each has her own look and style, which determines the way I work with them and the way the photographs look.

Here is one of my beliefs about being a photographer.   Photography is an act of submission.  I submit to my models, when I photograph a landscape - I submit.   When photograph a flower - I submit.   When I make a portrait - I submit.

PHOTOGRAPHY IS AN ACT OF SUBMISSION.

New book on Book Blurb

NATALIA - MUSE is the title of a new book I just published with the help of Book Blurb. The book celebrates 3 years of collaboration and work between photographer and model Natalia Faina. It is a collection of photographs made in the studio and on location. The book has 218 pages and over 200 photographs. It is punctuated with some of the emails sent between the two collaborators. The book is indeed a true collaboration and illustrates the t relationship between two individuals h who "Muse" each other.

The book can be purchase from Book Blurb. It is expensive - but you have the alternative of purchasing a cd of an extended PDF version of the book. let me know if you are interested.

see the front cover below.

AN INTRODUCTION

John Running has been photographing the female nude for all of his 40 years as a professional. The women he typically photographs are sensual and strong in demeanor and appearance. His photographs are collaboration with his models where there is room for each to express their creativity. His work reminds us that eroticism is yet another culturally laden value that depends on choices made by its consumers to be effective.

Running’s Album of Erotica is collaboration between photographer and model. It is a series of personal work done in the studio or on location with fun and sexy props and experimental sets. It is an exploration of the changing faces of the
model. Modify the props, set and light - transform the persona.

Work or play? The photographer and model are both exhausted and rejuvenated by the process of creating the images. Each session evolves into its own dynamic, the magic of creative interaction, sometimes sending out for more film!

More coffee! More wine! More Photos!!

There is delight in female form, no fear of womanhood, perfect freedom to play. In this magic studio there is no struggle to control; it has been replaced with trust.

... so that is how these photos are born, work and play. Now it is your turn.

Enjoy!

John Running