New Releases
Nov 11, 2009
slitrin//"virago"
Every so often we receive a contribution that is simply staggering in its artistry. We are awestruck by Slitrin’s ability to translate what’s floating about in her mind’s eye to the setup and capture of the image, which now illuminates tiny little lights on a flat surface before us, then bursts back open in our own perceptions. Pop pop pop.
photos | Primary
Nov 11, 2009
tigglez//"away_up_high"
The best thing about being naked on a rooftop is that, unless they’re willing to come up after you, no one can make you put your clothes back on. It’s hard to imagine a cop (or other concerned member of the citizenry) hollering up at you from the street – they’d probably look even sillier than you did. And with this in mind, Tigglez shot herself a-way up high.
photos | overload
Nov 10, 2009
gina_cherie//"carnivaleske"
Bakhtin would have jumped at the chance to write a discursive text on this lady. I can see it now: ‘Gina Cherie: Celebrations of the Lower Bodily Stratum’. She’s built herself quite a carnival there in her backyard, and all it needs is some proper carnivalesque preoccupations and behaviours. It just so happens that she’s got more of those than you could shake a fist at.
photos | Reload
Nov 10, 2009
spirit//"the_real"
The real is not necessarily always pleasant, as Spirit has certainly found in the past. But she’s making for herself a new reality, starting here, and we hope that it features just as much lush enjoyment of life’s blisses as her images do. This lady is the real deal.
photos | Primary
Nov 09, 2009
kayamie//"dancetacular"
This is most certainly the body of a dancer – made for motion. Kayamie is poised for perfection in every frame, and she has a control over her body that allows her some very unique angles and positions. She was so liberated by this experience that she decided to go to her next dance class nude, but they didn’t receive it quite as well as we know you all will.
photos | Primary
Nov 09, 2009
naima//"hallowed"
This most golden of contributions comes from the reverent Naima, who so sweetly convinced the church groundskeeper to knock off early this particular evening. We hope that circumstance someday brings him to ISM, so he can see how very much he has served the goddess in so doing.
photos | Reload
Nov 08, 2009
betty_mae//"womens_work"
A lady’s place is in the kitchen. Your kitchen. Breaking open all of your snacks, dismantling the careful order of your fridge, taking bites of things and then putting them back. Getting the floor all gritty and leaving you the mess. Women’s work is dirty work, but someone’s gotta do it.
photos | Primary
Nov 08, 2009
madiline//"in_the_life"
Wake up next to Madiline and get a faceful of jam on toast and, we suspect, a blast of psychedelic rock. Small price to pay for the privilege, and maybe she’ll even dance around a bit. She certainly doesn’t seem like one of those morning grumps. But perhaps it’s just the coffee.
photos | Reload
Nov 07, 2009
oren//"fanta_pants2" Video
We here at the HQ are no strangers to the fun - and the completely inappropriate behaviour - that can be caused by the technology of the label-maker. Why are dirty words so much better when they come out of a small machine as stickers? Oren may not know either, but she is most definitely well entertained.
video | Primary
Nov 07, 2009
kara_d//"heirloom"
Welcome Kara_D, who makes her debut on ISM by submitting a bundle of old Ektachromes allegedly found in a shoebox in her attic. This predates the swinging 60's and could well be the first ever self-shot nude set in the history of photography - or is she having us on? If this was kara_d then, what does she look like now? We'll have to wait for her next instalment to find out.
photos | Primary
Nov 07, 2009
xtin//"golden_touch"
Xtin is all about warm tones, and this folio is full of the colours you think of as you drift off to sleep with an electric blanket in your bed. Snug as a bug in a rug – literally.
photos | overload
Nov 06, 2009
kayla_kandy//"snocones"
The snow hasn’t even melted yet and already this brave lady is out in the snow getting her already-minimal kit off. For her this is probably ‘a warm day’, though, seeing as she’s high up in the mountains all the time. And she didn’t even have to come down to ‘model her stuff’.
photos | Primary
Nov 06, 2009
indigo//"lush_living"
We are automatically jealous of anyone who has an outdoor shower. But it seems like just the right fit for Indigo, who so passionately enjoys the sensuous aspects of life, if her first ISM was anything to go on. She’s got red velvet flowing through her veins.
photos | Reload
Nov 05, 2009
nastusia//"luskus"
It’s easy to get lost in the patterns and textures of lace and stockings in Nastusia’s smashing debut, and then she pulls the frame back out at the perfect moment to remind us of what we’re looking at. Those textures are but accents upon her breathtaking frame, the real subject of her photographs.
photos | Primary
Nov 05, 2009
espoir_noir//"pathos"
Try to piece together the story Espoir_Noir is telling in this set and you’ll come up with something like this: she’s been bound by her master and forced to rob a bank, and then gets away with the money and spends it on producing her own hit record, the content of which sparks great controversy and lands her in jail, naked and rich. And that’s just the first half of the folio…
photos | Reload
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