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"My folio, I hope, is fresh, bright, enticing and beautiful. It's just me, lost between the sheets, wrapped in sunshine, and nothing else matters. It's the exploration of my skin, covered yet naked. The patterns of lace, draped over my body..."

From the HQ side of things, it’s easy to forget how actually intimate this whole self-portrait process really is. Those moments when the lens almost touches your skin, the held breaths as you hold the camera steady - ISM is an experience greater than the sum of its results.

"So I've been house sitting for a mansion over the summer and I happened to come across this beautiful dragon kite. At first, I didn't realise that it was a kite, so my mind raced with ways that I could wear it. When my friend pointed out the obvious, I decided that I could have so much more fun playing with it. The dragon was cheekier than I thought!"

"I love graffiti... To me, it's art that shows the city and the people. Doing my photo art in it made me feel comfortable and happy. I found lots of interesting and fun things to play with, and it made me more excited that someone could find me while doing it."

After so many encounters with photos of Liivi-in-the-trees, we’re starting to think she’s some sort of wood sprite or something. To check our theory: run out into the bush, wave your undies around, and shout “Liivi!” 3 times. Even if Liivi doesn’t come out to play, something fun is bound to happen.

“I shot this on the first warm day, Easter Monday. It was great to feel the sun on my body after a long cold winter. I don't really like looking at my pictures, it just doesn't feel like me I'm looking at, I don't know why. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy my nudity.”

The more of her work she shares, the more Claire R fires our erotic imagination. We see her surrounded by pink petals, philosophizing in a cardboard box, red-mouthed, painting on abandoned brick walls, in antique lingerie, a hobo wedding under the bridge. There’s nothing Claire R can’t do or be if she sets her mind to it, and we can’t wait to see which part of herself she shows us next.

"I hope people enjoy looking at my folio and appreciate the public risks I took! This is the first time I've ever taken photos of myself naked - not even for boyfriends; and I thought I'd be quite camera shy. The first attempts were quite awkward but after awhile it just started flowing and it became sort of natural."

Something about Claira has got us all gallant over here, ready to hitch out to wherever she is bearing basketfuls of dogwood flowers, and singing mournful country songs about her love. Until we get there at least, she’s got a good 17 hours to enjoy in the grass and sprinklers, suitor-free.

Effi presents herself as a dancer, a naked woman, a party girl, an artist, a sexual being - anything Effi wants to be, she is. You only live once - isn’t that what they say? But Effi doesn’t limit herself. She comes alive in as many different ways she can imagine, and changes herself whenever she feels like it.

"Usually if I take photos of myself it's on self-timer, so this was pretty new. I was packing up my room to move so I only had my suitcase and a doona in the room while I was taking photos. Now that I've done this I kind of want to do it again!"

Kitty Miau is the stuff that crushes are made of. She jumps from sultry pout to silly grin without hesitation, from one photo to the next until her expressions blur together into pure sexiness - a joy that intersects with sensuality, neither serious nor frivolous, just completely alluring.

"It was surprising, realising how comfortable it made me feel to be in front of the camera. Because I've never done anything like this before, I suppose I didn't expect that. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I showed some friends the pictures afterwards and they said I had a cute little bum so that was nice."

"I was doing my daily travel on my bike and I ride by this beautiful place. It was really funny and interesting to take the photos because I can see parts of my body that I usually cannot see. I was also a little scared about the other people seeing because it's like a secret... not illegal but in the park so they might see. Very exciting and fun!"

"Nous avons passe un tres bon moment en faisant ces photos. Nous les avons faites dans notre jardin. Nous sommes beaucoup a vivre dans cette maison mais comme l'ambiance est chaleureuse nous nous sentions bien de les faire ici, meme s'ils etaient autours."