SARA - WITH BENNETT'S TUMBLEWEED

I was showing a visitor around my studio - he had just purchased one of my Milagro photos.   He saw this photo on my wall -  "I have to have that one."  he said and pointed to a framed copy of - Sara - With Bennett's Tumbleweed"

I suggested I would print one right away if he could you wait.   "Print it."  he said.

I told him there was a story behind this print.   Some time ago my partner, Sue Bennett, decided she wanted to do a photo of a model with a tumbleweed so one day we went out into the desert north of Flagstaff and found the perfect tumble weed.  Sue kept it in her studio for years - never made her photo.  One time I asked her if I could borrow it - she didn't say no,  but more important she never said,  "Yes."   Sue was killed in an automobile accident over 5 years ago - the tumbleweed still  hung in her studio I borrowed it - took it to my studio and made this photo for Sue.  An homage.

And as a note - I attribute much of the success of this photo to my wonderful creative model Sara - 

Four Other Favorites

Here are four other favorite models.   I am fortunate to be able to work with

  these awesome women.  They grace my studio. my camera,  

my eyes and hopefully your eyes.

You can find them on my website www.albumerotica.com

Brenna

Ida Mae

Irene

Erin P

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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.

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