I’ve been ready to blog about this for a while, but I just haven’t quite gotten it together. I’ve started a new project, working with belly dancers. I got the idea last summer, but it’s taken me all this time to think about the concept and get up the nerve to approach dancers to model for me.

I remember when Tony Fouhse posted some recent photos of his crack addicts (I think it was in November), he said the photos weren’t quite what he was going for. I thought he was nuts, because I thought the photos were wonderful. (Ok, so I went hunting through his blog for the link, and it was actually in August, but he seems to have taken the actual pictures away so there isn’t any point in linking you there.) Working on this belly dance project, I’m starting to understand what he was getting at. I did my first shoot with Ishra in February, and I thought many of the shots were beautiful. But they weren’t quite what I was going for. Here are a few examples:

(This one might actually be a contender, because I think it caught a moment of introspection, but I probably won’t know for sure until I finish the project.)

A couple of weeks ago, I had two more shoots, and started making the kind of photos I think I want to make for this series. Unfortunately for these lovely women, it was minus 15 Celsius with the windchill. Of course. Just my luck that after two weeks of mild temperatures, on the one day I want to make pictures of scantily clad women outside, it’s really f-ing cold.

And that’s all I have to say about that for now.