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"Tu m'as demandé pardon, j't'ai repoussé J'voulais qu'tu comprennes que je souffrais" by @siamusic "Hand serie" Self-portrait I did very recently. No retouch or filter used. Did it totally by chance when I was trying to do something else, this is the marvelous thing of self-portraits with an auto shoot on. You just set the timer, multiple shoot mode on and wish everything go as you planned. Sometimes, different things and wonderful pictures result from these sessions. 10 minutes and over 100 pictures taken, love most of them ❤️ By the way, morning people! 🤗 #photography #photo #photoshoot #inkedgirl #handtattoos #hands #girlwithtattoos #girlwithpiercings #portrait #selfportrait #selfie #grainphoto #fujifilm #minimalism #conceptual #conceptualphotography #abstractphotography #gestures #emotions

Uma publicação partilhada por Ana Peres (@anaraquelperes) a 22 de Mai, 2019 às 12:04 PDT

I just love the results!
Really want to make it again.
What do you think about this?

And enjoy the rest of your day!

The more I work with different photographers, more I realized the aesthetic I want to pursuit.
I want to be involved in different projects, not really interested about nudity for nudity but to bring something else 'to the table'!

I want to be involved with images that make people look two, three, four times before they get the all picture, like this one I made with Alexandre Cabrita, and tied by Carlos from Knotlounge.


Every time I showed this picture to people, the first reaction was always "What is this?"
And this reaction is what I want to get from people. And I want to feel proud of myself to make people think and question photography.

I respect whom want to work through soft porn or erotic images but to be honest I think that's the easy way to work via nudity. Everyone can shoot frontal nude with anyone, with any camera, any light...
I want to be different! Work differently.
I'm not afraid to be naked in front of a camera with a stranger, and I'm perfectly aware not every one is willing to be naked like that. But I really want to use my 'not afraid of being naked' to make different images, images that make people look and investigate.

Plus I don't really think I have to show my face to make the pictures work. In fact I prefer not to show my face...

By the way, what do you think of this picture?

"Nudity is a subject, not a pretext to something else", I saw this on IG of @gurnicki, apparently its from @monikasobien.
This title is everything!

Artistic nude photography is a subject, not a pretext that you can contact the model because you can see she/he was naked on that picture or disrespect the photographer, or the photographer can disrespect the model just because she/he is naked in front of you or willing to do it...

Even today I read an interview of Sara Sampaio to a portuguese magazine where she tell about the 10 worst experience on her professional life. Curious some are about nudity, photographers that didn't respect her... Funny how in my very, very short amateur model life I cross my path with disrespectful people (including photographers).

I published on my IG some of photography where I'm visibly naked. No nipples, genital or what so ever can be seen. The fact that I'm not afraid to 'show off' my naked body doesn't make me a whore or slut or implies that some random guy can send me pics or text me "I want to get you know you better". Those guys are blocked from my IG account and until today I only replied and I was 'nice' to one contact like that.

Nowadays I only want to work with @alexandrecabrita because he's just amazing in every way. He respects me as a person, he respects my total inexperience of modelling, he's patient beside the fact he's a total creative genius.
I got several contacts from other photographers wanting to make dirty stuff almost porno... Not who I'm, the path I want to take as a model or creative person, how I want to use my body to express feelings.

But over this past months, I realized almost every one see nudity as a pretext, not a subject.
I want to do more artistic nude photography but the world lacks of good people, lacks of photographers that want to explore nudity in a different way that most people do. The world lacks of values!
If you are a photographer and you don't understand what I'm saying, go to WASE Mag website, see how around the world others see nudity as a subject, as a line to communicate feelings. Not a pretext to sex or sexualize the body (male or female).
If you are a random guy that see my pics and think you can try to contact me to have sex... Use your hand! Like Rick de Sousa said once "They just want to empty their balls". Totally!

If you think I'm a slut because I do this type of photography, I'm not. I'm more, so much more than you see here on my IG, and I only show what I want people to know about me...

Here it goes 10 things (most) people don't know about me:
1 - I've an inexplicable need to learn new things in all imaginable areas.
2 - I've an inability to express my true feelings and normally I build walls around me when I like someone, even push them away... (trying to change that but its so damn hard!)
3 - I've a dark, a deep secret wish to became famous (its my alter ego showing off).
4 - I bite my nails, especially when I'm driving, can't explain why.
5 - I over feel things (situations, lies, people, everything...).
6 - Still want to be a mermaid and my main reason for not believing in God is because he never turned me into a mermaid.
7 - I was left-hand as a child however nowadays I use most times my right hand, still can write and draw with my left hand.
8 - I dream to be fully tattooed one day, since I was a very little child.
9 - I'm dyslexic and I do stammer.
10 - I want to find the love of my life one day, the one and only that loves me for who I'm and I can be myself all the time and respects me even when I'm furious and want to destroy everything around me.
After all this said and done, you as a photographer want to collaborate with me, just contact me!

Love all these pictures, the lights, my posture, the colors…
Why?
To explain I think I might have to dig a bit for my readers.
It's very easy to post on social media only happy posts, to show only the good moments we have with friends, that perfect beach picture, the night out with friends, etc.
No one shows you the boring life of daily tasks, the constant struggle we all have personally, emotionally even professionally, because no one is completely happy all day long, every single day. Happiness is made from little moments!
This miniserie is - personally - intense! I exposed myself more, I show off my imperfect body, my wrinkles and I don't even tried to hide them. That's why its my favorite! I'm being truth to myself and others.





And enjoy the rest of your day!

Model / Photo Edition - Ana Peres
Photographer - Xsense

Continuing "The Geisha Serie aka Destroying My Reputation", this time vol. 2/3, I reinforced the emotional charge of this pics turning them into black and white.
This mini-serie is one of my favourite!

I prefer this set to the previous with the kimono.
I find this ones with grater graphic composition and emotionally stronger.
Maybe due to the black and white factor.
Maybe because I review myself in this type of photography.
Maybe because I can see myself and my personality in this pics and no doubt I feel a great empathy for them.
Maybe because I feel proud of my body and my attitude!








Model - Ana Peres
Photographer - Xsense
Edition - Ana Peres

I present you "The Geisha Serie aka Destroying My Reputation", vol. 1-3.
This is my new photography work made with the photographer Xsense.
After the careful analysis of the final result photo/shoot, I decided to turn them into small series of set, where the main issue is my fullback neo-traditional tattoo with oriental inspiration.
The title of those series is "The Geisha Serie aka Destroying My Reputation", where the Geisha theme is explored!
Geisha can be literally translate to 'the person who makes art', although geishas are somehow associated to prostitution, actually geisha is a very sophisticated, artistic and delicate woman, who trained ancient arts like sing, dance and music.









I took some time to present these photos because every time I look at them or thought about them, I felt this was not the type of photography I want to make! At all...
My main idea for this photoshoot, was completely 'fineart' / conceptual art and I feel the final results are very commercial. I've no doubts this is not what I want to do, how I like to be photographed, perform or even how I like to photograph. More I think about it, more I'm sure I want to step aside this type of concepts!
Although I like the final results, I can not say I love them, except two of them, that I will share later. My sentiment about this photoshoot is very ambiguous! During the discussion with the photographer about our encounter, I thought we're in the same path, sadly we're not which made me a bit uncomfortable because I was not doing what I wanted or we had talked about it. And I also felt he was not boosting my creativity or been creativity himself… Sometimes this happens, people just do not connect and its ok!

With this experience I learned a lot, and I learned I know what I want do to!
I want to do fineart photography! I want to create art and arise feelings on others thru photography, even though that creations are not commercial and doesn't have thousands of likes on social media. Because I don't really care about that...
I always have been an introverted person, very lonely, with unique ideas and is what I'm and I don't want to change!

My main gold about photography is to make more pics like the others I did (see link) even if I have to photograph myself, like I did last time.

Photographer who wants to collaborated with me for fineart/conceptual art photography, please contact me.

By the way, one curiosity, every time I think about this pics I remember Taylor Swift, 'Delicate'!
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Model - Ana Peres
Photographer - Xsense
Edition - Ana Peres

I love modelling and I always enjoy myself so much, that I really should return to be a model in a more serious way 👧
Although I love fashion modelling (because its great to wear fancy clothes and fancy make-up, done by professionals), I prefer conceptual photography because I rather use my body to express emotions, feelings and create certain feelings on others.

Conceptual photography its far more raw and even use different textures/lights that editorial photography normally doesn't use. Doesn't have to be pretty or perfect and that's one thing I like - Imperfection!

I always think I should be perfect all the time and I'm a very critical person about myself but I allow myself not to be perfect and through photography I show my imperfections, my insecurities and more important, I allow others to see them! Which is a huge step out of my comfort zone!












Model - Ana Peres
Photography/Editing - Ana Peres (me)

Please don't use this images with permission.

I have some blogs that I read on a regular basis and sadly some of them move to another domain and somehow I lost track, Although I still have a few that I check once a week and one of those is http://www.delightfully-tacky.com!

I honestly can say that I didn't like all her posts specially the outfits posts but I loved the photography posts and the way she capture the light, objects I was more into that than outfits or lets empower woman posts!
The last post she 'post' is amazing in every way! And I would like to comment that post but she took off the comment section so I can not tell her: thank god you are over with outfit, with looking at numbers... so glad you don't give a fuck to your public opinion. Than I realized: that's why she took of the comments! :) ah ironic!

I really like her photographies and I will show you some of the last post pictures she took and I honestly she could do just this, posting photographies. Because she has talent and from all her posts, I just remember the photographies and I keep forgetting about the rest, the text the meaning of the post...





(images taken from Liz Morrow's blog and copy rights belong to her).

This year my journeys had started pretty early, in January.
I had an invitation to go to London for a weekend and meet up some people who want to donate and volunteer who want to came to Portugal and spend a couple of days at Bianca.
So I went!
Travelled on friday afternoon and even that I arrived at London, Heathrow airport really late (flight was delay almost one hour!!) I know I had two days to enjoy London.

As usual I manage to schedule a date with my friend Vera, who is living in London for a couple of years and we had a blast!! But that I will tell you all about it in another post... stay tune!

On saturday morning my friend Aysa took me to Great Foster for a late breakfast.



This luxurious hotel was one of the favourites sites of King Henry VIII to hunt and you truly can see the magnificent of its architecture and decoration. Every room is greatly decorated and every detail counts. Detailed ceilings overwhelmed you while you that the tour inside this hotel (see Great Foster brochure here!).
Big fireplaces, fine arts... it is beautiful!




If you are thinking about going to London and going to Windsor, take a small detour and go to Great Foster. Is quite close to Windsor and its Palace and the famous school Eton College which deserves a visit too.

Sorry about the pictures quality but I didn't took my camera and all this was shoot with my smartphone.