I’ve learned that for me to experiment and stretch myself, I need to be really comfortable in a photographic situation. What have you learned about yourself on your modeling odyssey? But I imagine this is something I’ll start doing more and more as time goes on. I’ve photographed my friends and enjoy it very much. Ask friends, your target audience, and yourself to make selections and start developing your own style - and that style might be great diversity.ĭo you plan on shooting other models in the future? Yeah! I think it’s a really exciting time to be a model! Take tons of photos! Take inspiration from photos you like and do them in your own way. What advice would you have for other models that are interested in doing their own photo shoots? I think it’s fair to say that selfie shoots will become much more common in the near future. I also use a selfiestick, an iPhone tripod, and am always on the lookout for new gadgets to diversify. I also use a Lumix for video & an iPhone for selfies.
I shoot my photographs mostly with a DSLR (Nikon d610 currently). But I love the variety the light brings to the photo, and every space has different light.ĭo you only shoot with your phone or do you have a dedicated camera, as well? I much prefer natural light and use that almost exclusively! When conditions don’t allow though, I will use a light on a stand or flash. I mostly just wear cheap items or gifts and take them off! But with my hair I definitely have a 90s rocker chick look, which I like.ĭo you use studio lighting at all? Your work seems dominated by sunlight. So modeling lends itself to my visual art practice really smoothly. Modeling tends to be a single moment captured/archived and dance to be live movements in progress. My early training was as a modern dancer, and when I model I often consider it dance. That’s a good question, and I’ll speak on it personally rather than broadly. How would you describe the intersections of modeling & dancing, two arts devoted to the visual documentation of the human body? We evolved over so many years symbiotically as men and women, and I find the gendered differences and similarities in expression and experience to be endlessly interesting. My biology degree informs my understanding of sex and humans. I think of Instagram as today’s version of B-movies.ĭoes your bachelor’s degree in biology inform your work at all? I particularly love her B-movie stills, as I think they amazingly crystallize the time of their heyday. Is Cindy Sherman a big inspiration of yours? One could say that she paved the way for you, as a pioneer of selfies and woman-centric perspectives of the female subject.Ībsolutely! I’ve loved Cindy Sherman’s work for a long time. Sometimes I am shooting the photos myself and sometimes I use an assistant. That’s rather difficult to negotiate with standard photographers, so I turned to selfie photography.
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I wanted to have full ownership of the images, in their full resolution. It happened when I started making visual art my main thing. Twitter: did you decide to make selfie photography your thing? Whitehouse is a freelance social media consultant and political policy essayist for the Eurasia Review, IntPolicyDigest & Pressenza. DAZED & CONFUSED Magazine has said she is “a digital artist to keep your eye on.” Check her out on Instagram & on. Her band, ONA, will be releasing its 1st EP, Sex Rock, in April 2016. As an “Extreme Selfie Model,” she practices a DIY aesthetic by self-producing all her own content: shooting her own photos, crafting her own videos, and designing her own websites. Her work has appeared across thousands of media, Internet & broadcast channels. She studied dance & biology as an undergraduate, then received an MFA in Fine Art from the Parsons School of Design. Ona is a musician, artist, dancer, and model living in Brooklyn and on the web.
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