With a few notable exceptions, fetish photographers are not exactly noted for putting a lot of effort into the outfits they wear to fetish clubs. The usual excuse is that taking decent pictures in crowded, dark venues is hard enough without being expected to look as good as the people you’re trying to photograph.
So when one of our ilk does make the effort, the least I can do is acknowledge it. Especially when they’ve gone to so much effort that they’re able to spend an entire night in a club unrecognised by most of their friends.
Who exactly was the blue-latex-hooded mystery woman I photographed getting some tongue action from Darenzia at Torture Garden’s Rubber Ball Weekend party? Step forward and take a bow, please, the normally shy and retiring Christine Kessler. Steen is one of fetishism’s most prolific and accomplished photographers and webmasters, running her own sites plus those of numerous well-known fetish glamourpusses. She was making her Rubber Ball debut this year, joining us all the way from LA just as her first book was hitting the bookstores across Europe.
Called, very appropriately, Pervy Girls, it features around 100 shots of America’s finest fetish divas, not to mention a foreword — in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish — by, ahem, yours truly. Bet you didn’t know I could even speak that many different languages, right? Neither did I. But apparently I can. It’s all there in black and white. (The pictures themselves, of course, are in the glorious colour for which Ms K is rightly renowned.)
Pervy Girls is published by Goliath and we’ll be featuring more of this tasty little tome in my new webzine The Fetishistas, which is due to launch very shortly. Watch this space!
www.christinekessler.com
www.goliathbooks.com
www.thefetishistas.com
There are more and more talented pervs producing fetish... fashions, images and so forth. Christine is one example of a real perv with real talent. Love her work!
I often wonder as more and more quality stuff is out there.. "beautiful" by any measure, is this preaching to the perverted... or are these crossing over to "the other world"?
I would be curious to hear from people like Ms Kessler about rave reviews from nilla people... if any of them are crossing over to the perv side because of the "high art" she and others are producing.
Do nilla write to her and let her, for example, know what tipped them to give latex a go?
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Posted by: DefJef | 14 November 2006 at 06:52 PM