Burlesque Scene in Tokyo
I was lucky enough to become involved in the Tokyo Burlesque Scene through my work as the photographer for the Tokyo Dr Sketchy’s group. In the last month before I left Japan to return to Australia, the stars of the scene and I began a photographic collaboration that will hopefully lead us all to bigger and better things. Here are some teaser shots from those sessions….
Dave G
Dave G is a comedian in Tokyo, and needed some new publicity shots for his work, and for a new book he’s working on. It was a fun day, we got some great shots.
Bellydancer Lisa
Lisa is a semi-pro bellydancer. Recently she performed in a big bellydance show, and hired a special costume for 2 weeks especially for the show. It was so gorgeous that she asked me to get some pic’s of her wearing it for her future publicity shots. Fabulous. I went to see the show, it was bloody fantabulous. All those gorgeous curves and costumes! A photographers dream.
Sandi
Sandi & I had both been wanting to do a glamour shoot in the style of old Hollywood for a long time. June 1 & 2, we spent the weekend setting up and shooting 1200 photos in about 8 different scenes, experimenting with lighting, props and backgrounds, costumes and makeup. Not everything worked, but it was a great experiment and we are both delighted with the results.
Mint/Snip: I'm getting published!
Good news! The pictures I took for my friends Yoko and Nana at Mint Salon for Snip Magazine will be published in a 2 page spread next month.
We did the shoot last weekend in a little office in Ebisu, and had a lot of collaborative fun setting up the lighting, backdrops and individual shoots.
Thanks very much to our fabulous models, Jakub and Yuko and to Misaki, Nana and Yoko for providing me with the opportunity to get some shots I’m really happy with.
Jakub
Junko is a make-up artist, based at Mint Hair & Make-up Salon in Ebisu. She called me last week to ask if I’d be interested in doing a shoot for a young Polish model, Jakub. I happily agreed and we made a plan. She would do his make-up and Misaki (Mint) would do his hair, then they’d come to my place to do the shoot. We spent about 4 hours playing around and got some wonderful results. I was stoked to hear that Jakub was so happy with the results that he’s asked to come back for another shoot in March. You can see some of the pictures at my Flickr page.