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"My house is pretty dark so I decided to shoot myself on my balcony. I pinned a white sheet up and surrounded myself with my favourite plants - including my favourite fruit salad plant, which fell over in the wind about five minutes in. I loved using the mirror because I've never had the opportunity to really focus on certain parts of my body and how they look at different angles."

"Because of my red hair, pale skin and girth-y hips, my friends often liken me to a Degas painting or a renaissance woman. It usually allows for a funny gallery selfie, but it was interesting taking some of that and trying to pull off these poses the models were captured in, especially in the gilded frame of my mirror. Keeping a body part on the shutter had me scrap so many ideas and really try to improvise as much as possible, picking up props around the room to enter my fantasy, paying more attention the the angles and lines of my body I had previously overlooked, and loving the discovery."

"I had lots of enjoyment doing this project, as I've wanted to do a shoot based around nature for a while now. I have recently fallen in love with the outdoors more and more, and I felt the need to express that with a photo shoot. I love the natural light on my fair skin and I truly felt like a real forest fairy nymph while taking some of these shots! It's inspired me to be even more close with nature now, and spend more time with myself outdoors. The only downfall I would say is that I tried to take more shots in an intriguing forest near my house, but that didn't exactly go to plan as there happened to be a few people there having a picnic. Eek! Thank you so much ISM!! I love being a part of it. <3"

"To be the model and the photographer was a fantastic experience. It gave me a different perspective of myself and I felt proud of the creative shots I took of my beautiful body. I wanted to show all my friends! It was a lot of photos though and I am not a selfie type of person. I noticed myself in my highs and lows, when I was feeling sexy, feeling silly, and I inspired my housemates when I was walking around naked that they took off their tops too! After spending so much time naked and seeing myself in my own skin, when it came to the night time and I was getting ready to go out with high school friends I just didn't know what to wear! It took me so long to decide because I needed to wear not only what I was comfortable in but also what would fit in to the sort of place we were going. It was interesting because I just wanted to go out naked, haha!"

"No tengo demasiados problemas con mi cuerpo desnudo, pero si bastantes con el manejo de una camara. Se me da muy mal hacerme selfies pero al final, han salido algunas fotos bastante chulas. Unas cuantas hojas, un sombrero, una camara y un poco de creatividad hacen que puedas pasar un rato increible contigo misma. Ha sido una experiencia muy personal y divertida y me alegro profundamente de haberla vivido. / I do not have too many problems with my naked body, but enough with the handling of a camera. I'm very bad at selfies but in the end, some pretty cool photos have come out. A few leaves, a hat, a camera and a little creativity make you have an incredible time with yourself. It has been a very personal and fun experience and I am very happy to have lived it."

"I let this shoot happen organically. I set myself up by my bedside window with some wine and groovy house music bumping and incorporated whatever colors and props jumped out at me around the room. I stopped when I felt like I was running out of creative juices and dragged my very supportive boyfriend out of bed early the next morning to finish. We ran across the street to a park and found a somewhat hidden spot behind some trees. He kept watch while I got some more shots rolling in the grass and lounging in a tree and at one point he even pretended to do some stretching exercises to distract a worker's truck coming down the footpath. It was so lovely to have him there supporting what I was doing, and it felt quite liberating being spread-eagle and stark-naked in the park while the morning joggers and dog walkers passed by completely unaware."

""My video project - "Story of a frustrated unemployed Librarian". It's a kind of documentary about my every day life, made of long moments waiting for a call from a new job, waiting for other people to finish working, waiting for the sunset to leave home because it's too hot outside."

"The shoot started off great finding my angles and having fun. I had a giggle every time I jumped off my window sill to hide from school children and old ladies walking down my street. After about 50 photos and 20 potential flashes to the neighbourhood, I was craving a cigarette. My housemate who was so kindly blowing bubbles for my shoot suggested I take a few photos with the smoke and they turned out to be some of my favorite shots."

"My shoot which I have called "painting the town red" was inspired by my favourite colour, Red. Red symbolises love, sex and hunger which are three of my favourite things in life. My cheeky nature is really expressed through the shoot and I had an amazingly fun time shooting it and to be able share that with you. I've tried to incorporate my athletic side with one of my sexy Bulls jersey. Red lips and pearls are a must for the ultimate feminine look."

"When I first started this project my creative juices started flowing. I wanted to do something that was a little fun and out of the ordinary. The original plan was to fill a bath full of cereal, but, the bathtub I had lined up fell through and we ended up doing some shooting outside and used what we had. Then, the next day I thought "why not use a small pool?" and suddenly we are in the grocery store buying milk and fruit loops; So much milk and fruit loops! It was cold and I tasted super sweet afterwards but it was so worth it. I was quite nervous and awkward at first but then I started having fun with the idea and all the props. I would love to do it again! The empowerment you feel after this experience is a high like no other."

"I started this shoot after riding my bike to a friend's place. Along the way I picked up a broken dirty bike chain (for a crafty project) and so was very grease smeared when I arrived! I immediately started my shots in the garden and had a lot of fun posing grease smeared in the garden afternoon light! This folio is about exploring perspectives of intimacy through different textures angles and feelings. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did in making it!"

"When I was asked to do a second shoot, I was quite surprised. I enjoyed myself so much in the first shoot, I couldn't wait to get home and get started. For this shoot I wanted to give my own bedroom a try. But it seemed even after moving things around, the lighting still wasn't quite right. So I decided to go outside where the weather wasn't terrible. My bedroom has a door that opens right out to the backyard with a small deck in front of it. After deciding to go outside, I sent a message to the group chat with a house of boys that I live with, warning them not to go outside as I'll be taking photos of myself naked. Some of them were confused but agreed and I managed to have a successful shoot. It wasn't as cold as I was expecting and there was a lot more room to work with this time round. Again, thoroughly enjoying my experiences with these shoots and the creative input I'm able to make."

"I share a room with my best friend but she's super cool and loves this project so she vacated the place for a few hours. I put on some reggae and just started toying with the mirror and light in the room. It's actually really sexy just being nude and bending and twisting your body in front of a mirror. It was kinda hard trying to find a complete blank canvas to take the photos in because as soon as you think you got the perfect shot, when flicking back through the photos you see a bottle of moisturizer in the background or an apple sticker on the floor. I got completely lost in myself, and looked over and over the pictures thinking "This is me, as I am and this is my truth". It's pretty awesome to be totally comfortable with yourself, and I Shot Myself made me realise that I love my body!"

"I had a lot of fun doing this shoot, at first it seemed strange, although taking nudes of myself wasn't a new thing for me, it seemed more special and relaxed. While carrying around this surprisingly heavy mirror on an aggressively windy day over a fence, I went up a slight hill to my paddock dam for one shot and the wind was so strong it tipped the mirror and knocked my head hard, I started laughing and crying then got up and moved location to somewhere safer! :)"

"This shoot was very interesting. I did it in 3 sessions. The first was very fun, the lighting and set was perfect, my creativity was able to come out in the body angles I used and discovered. The second session was a lot harder, I did it outside in my friend's backyard. It was sooo hot and my boobs, legs and bum were burnt for days! I also had a lot of trouble trying to use the mirror, other people on ISM make it look so easy! By the third session I was running out of ideas but I pushed on with it, and in the end I was really happy with the photos I had produced. The big lesson I learnt was that when you are on a roll, don't let the momentum go. I discovered that I did in fact have some creative abilities, it was wonderful to have the chance to explore the artist inside that I didn't know existed."