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My friend Nikiski

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film

I don't know what to do with my images any more. I don't know their place or purpose.

It's like we live in the viral age where you get like one piece that goes viral and the rest of your art no one ever sees.

Or, you just never get seen or go viral at all and the same 10 people are your audience, basically like putting on a puppet show for your mom, dad, and cat and dog and parakeet every day, and you know they're only clapping for you in hopes you finally get somewhere so you can move out.

I dunno what images to post. I don't post normal images. I try not to take normal images. Why would I? I want to contribute, not fit in. I don't wanna contribute to what's already too much of that's for sure.

Thanks to the 5 of you that are still watching after I've been bleeding for 20 years creating for you. I'm not bitter, I'm just fucking mad and I'm not done, I'm just calling it what it is. It's the ghost in the machine. It's the nature of the beast.

The truth is I don't want you to see this, like this or comment. I post my work where i do not have any friends and I don't "sync your contacts and invite friends to follow you"

I am FUCKING SICK of friends. I want exposure. Sorry to be so entitled. But that's how it is.

Honestly I've had plenty of opportunity in the past I ignored, thinking I could create my own opportunity. I don't regret that either. I am a creator. I am the creator of my own life.

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I figured I'd upload one of my own songs. All About You Mojokiss 2022-2023

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Just a single shot today. Rachel DaShae. We were on location in Richmond I think.

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My friend Mandy was always so kind to model for me - miss her so much and those times and shooting 35mm film!

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Projection. Lyzzie. 2023. Mojokiss. St Petersburg, FL.

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Angelika Graca 2nd look. Single light. My studio.

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Preview for my tumblr people: I love Eastern European faces, and today I shot one of the best of them, being the great artist, Angelika Graca. We did several looks but here's one in striking deep red and cyan with elements of war time struggles and trials known in that part of the world to us all these days.

She is the 2nd subject to bless the new studio in St Pete, FL. I'm still getting the editing workflow together and I'll share more photos soon.

If you want to shoot something creative or know someone who might, please keep me in mind.

#studiophotography#editorial#studiolighting#creativelighting#lighting#ledlights#led#neewer#tattooed#red#war#ukraine#europe#model

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From yesterday's shoot. I've switched to using Mac instead of PC lately and I've just started using GIMP and Darkroom. This is a preview after some beauty cloning and editing. The purple lights and all the lighting and background is original as shot. I felt the desire to leave in the lighting rig as well because it adds to the interest for me.

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I found a model and a boxsping mattress and put them together.

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I found Draven and asked her to come shoot at my studio in Philly. I didn't know she was a porn actress. I just liked her look. She was surprised I didn't know who she was. She liked that in a way I think. The old piano, I had found on the street and brought it up the stairs to my studio. I found some pine cone pieces somewhere and laid them about the scene. These are a few non-nudes from the shoot. All 35mm film shot in a 1966 Minolta.

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This professional dancer came to me for a studio session in Philly while I was living in my studio there. We shot film as that was all I was shooting those days. I wanted to show off her body as much as possible while exhibiting her physical strength and flexibility along with her beautiful unique facial features. She was able to give the camera some fierce fire and attitude. I do miss those days in my Philly studio. I have just established a new studio here in Florida where I hope to be creative once again and continue my body of work. So many of the original models I worked with have gone on to different lives, and some have gone to heaven. Check out my music shorts and such at instgram.com/mojokiss or youtube.com/@mojokiss

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I'd like to introduce myself. First and foremost I'm a little different. I'm sometimes hated. But I know myself and I'm here to stay. I'll be posting some of my works and the process or lack of behind the shots, and maybe some of the backstory. This is a 35mm of Miss Carissa White (IG linked). She is a good friend of mine. We canoed out to this island and did some shots with some pieces that came from a studio photo shoot we had been doing. I like the somewhat distorted aspects of the 14mm Rokinon lens on my Nikon F5 film body. I have several other shots from this day. You can also visit www.mojokiss.com to explore my work. You'll be interested in the things I have to post in the coming days and months if you're at all into model photography.