Where The Wild Roses Grow

Absolutely stunned! I have just got the 4 first pictures from Sanna from our photo shoot inspired by "Where The Wild Roses Grow". I can hardly believe it is me in the photo's... Wow!
It was great fun making these pictures. The photo shoot involved lying around in the lake which was soooo cold. I'm guessing between 12-15 degrees Celsius. So now I am home with a terrible cold and playing Dragon Age all day. But as you can see by the photos: IT WAS WORTH IT! :)

model: Gabrielle Syrén Baker

Makeup artist: Jenny Möller

Photo-ass: Felix Alnemark

Photo: Sanna Skerdén

Photo shoot with Peter Ljungkvist

Mkay... so... I decided to uppload some photos before they get to old...

These Pictures are by Peter Ljungkvist ( http://www.plf.se/ )and were taken sometime in June. They are taken just next door to where I work... I was a bit nervous that my boss would walk by or something. ;) It was great working with Peter. I was a bit nervous to begin with because I hadn't done a photo shoot in a long long time..

The photos didn't turn out to be quite what I expected. I intended on a pure fashion photo shoot, but instead they turned out like calm portraits. When I say I expected something else it does NOT mean that I am at all disappointed. I think these photos are wonderful and Peter is a truly great photographer. But I must say I haven't done a lot of fashion shooting. Whenever I try it doesn't really go my way. Mainly because I chose photographers that want to do fine art instead... Which like I said I really enjoy doing. But I feel I should try something else to get more experience in different fields. Any advice? I think a good place to start is to find a cool make up artist that I can work with. I have worked with a couple that have been really good and nice and everything, but I think we need to have the same visions and be able to cooperate more. Well well...

Sneak peek...

I think I am getting a better balance at work now. It feels really great. I am working at two different places now, one that I LOVE and one that I don't love that much at all.. But I am getting on to it, I feel more confident now. It is a bit of a hierarchic atmosphere at the workplace that I don't like that much. But I think I am winning some respect from my boss and colleagues without climbing over other people to get there. That feels good. I've always hated people who do that, that can walk over dead bodies just to get to the top. I think it is disgusting and I detest that kind of people. I really cant stand them. one of my colleagues is like that. And I have been the body she has been walking over. She is on holiday now, so that might be why it is going so well at work and I am starting to like it. I only hope it will stay good, even after she comes back. But honestly I am not so sure about that... I got some photos from Peter yesterday. They are not finnished all of them. But you get a sneak peek because you continue putting up with my whining about work... :) I'm into a modeling mode right now. Though I haven't got anything booked in a while. But we'll have to do something about that, won't we?

Bitch

I get so fucking angry. There is this woman (well it´s the internet so it could be a man) that has been writing to me lately wondering about my bush. Not in any way sexually speaking but she has questioned me WHY I have a bush when it's not very common in the modeling world. And I have written back very politely. No problem. But today I got a new e-mail from her where she stated that she had been to a lecture where they had said that having a bush was out of fashion and was very 70´s. She just wrote to me to inform me that it might be better for me to shave so that people didn't find my portfolio out of date and unfashionable. Still keeping it very polite though. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) her user had been deleted so I wasn't able to answer her and tell her to fuck off. Any ways, here is my answer. Though in Swedish.
"Hej igen Marie.
Angående att raka sig eller ej så bryr jag mig inte ett uns om vad som är "på modet" Jag har själv systrar som är 14-16 och jag vet att det är en utbredd trens även bland yngre flickor och jag tycker det är en sjuk trend att kvinnor ska se ut som småbarn och att det anses "annorlunda" eller ofräscht om en kvinna inte rakar sig. Jag tycker det är helt idiotiska kvinnoideal att det som faktiskt är naturligt ses som fel. Jag skulle aldrig någonsin raka mig, skit samma vem det var som ville det. Dels tycker jag att det är förbaskat sorgligt att kvinnor tvingas göra detta, för det skulle aldrig hända en man. Dels är det många som av bekvämlighetsskäl inte rakar sig då det är större risk för infektioner. Jag har inga planer på att göra glamourbilder i alla fall så då tycker jag det är skit samma om jag är rakad eller ej. Det ser jag som min ensak. Om en fotograf dissar mina bilder pga detta klan han/hon dra åt helvete i vilket fall som helst. En sådan fotograf vill jag ändå inte jobba med.

Mvh/Gabrielle"
I am so angry I could just hit someone right now. Or throw something so it breaks. Or maybe just listen to Le Tigre.

Sanna Skerdén

Summer is coming and my time still seems to be running short. After all these performances with the theater (that went great by the way!) I´ve got a whole load of work to do. And I need to find something to do during summer. Lately i´ve been working weekends as I go to school during the weekdays, but now I have to find a proper job for the summer, which I should have done ages ago, but time sort of ran through my fingers. It is already summer. But I´ve got a couple of leads.. we´ll see...

Today I have been rehearsing with Daltone. A Swedish rapper who is having his record release on Tuesday (1st of June). I am singing on one of his songs on the record and will be playing with him on the release night at Pet Sounds Bar. I enjoy it even if it isn´t really my type of music. A apreciate a lot of hip hop, but I don´t really listen to it. But it´s fun!

These pictures are from last summer. The second time in my life that I did modeling. The photographer is a really nice girl called Sanna Skerdén. I love her work and am really impressed by it. Also I think the world needs more good female photographers. There doesn´t seem to be many out there. I´d love to model for her again. Some of her stuff is really amazing.

http://www.sannaskerden.com/

Checkmate

A few pictures from a photo shoot with Anders Larsson (http://home.swipnet.se/anders-bildmakare/) and makeup artist Kajsa Edbom.
Edited by me. Enjoy!
Anders is a great photographer and friend. Lovely working with him. This is the second time I´ve been shooting with him. He is an extremely nice and warm person, full of ideas and passionate for what he is doing. It was great fun working with Kajsa too. She had this piece of checked material and wanted to do something with it, and this is the result. This is the firt time I´ve been doing makeup/beauty shots. Great fun! Kajsa is really talented.

I am still waiting with great expectations for the photos from my and Anders first photo shoot. I´m sure the pictures will be absolutely amazing. They are now in the hands of a graphic designer Eugenia, who is now working with them. Won´t tell you more than that. But I can assure you, it´s worth the waiting...

Time time...

It´s alla coming to an end. Or at least it should. School is soon over, but I´ve got LOADS to catch up on. And suddenly I just have no time! I thought I always used to have loads. Now time just runns through my fingers.

With the premier for our theater just round the corner (Now on Saturday 15th), my nerves are starting to make themselves reminded. (Can you say that in English? Göra sig påminda...)
I think it´s good for me to write in English, I do it so seldom otherwise.

I really should go through a couple of photos, I´ve told Johan I´d do it, ages ago. But then there is time again..

Also I should meet up with Armand and make some music. (I´m actually making music again! It´s great! I´ve been missing it so much!) We said we would meet again soon, and that was about a month ago, this theater thing has come in the way for everything.
But it´s great fun! If anyone wants to come, you can buy tickets on ticknet.se (just search for "Lea").

I say like First Floor Power: Time time, you never had it.
Just now I´d like another life, just to get more time. If I could just split myself in two...

Photos are by Johan Margulis (love the one with my cat! We tried to throw her out of the room, but she just wanted to be part of all the fun!)
www.dancersbyjohan.se
www.artyphoto.blogg.se

Skola...

Så just nu läser jag Foto B på komvux. Det är en hemsk kurs. Mest för att jag redan kan allt och för att det finns idioter i min klass som spenderar/slösar hela lektionen på att fråga och inte förstå vad skillnaden på ett montage och en manipulation är. Hm...gick tidigare från skolan idag pga denna diskussion... Tidigare har jag i alla fall haft Love och Niklas i min klass att prata med och utbyta menande blickar med när lektionerna blir för långtråkiga. Men de har slutat dyka upp för att de tycker lektionerna är så tråkiga. Man kan nämnligen "jobba hemifrån" om man mailar in och säger det. Borde kanske göra det jag med, men det har hänt att jag faktiskt missat viktiga saker när jag gjort det tidigare. Nåväl, det är bara två veckor kvar på kursen... Jag måste bara komma på någonting att fota till mitt slutprojekt, det skall vara dokumentärfoto.

Bilderna är av på min syster Clara, fotade av mig som slutprojekt till Foto A. Jag föredrar utomhusbilder framför studio egentligen, men jag är inte så bra på det än. Blev rätt nöjd med dessa bilder, dock insåg jag i efterhand att det kanske var lite platt ljus, men Clara gör en exceptionell prestation!