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!

And enjoy the rest of your day!

Recently I've had bad experiences about Body Piercing.
I know many professional Body Piercers make mistakes and probably I would make my own over the future years, however because of my personality I can not put myself aside of the fact I'm causing pain to people.
In several occasions, I had clients that started hyper ventilate even before I touch them, others started to kick me or hit my arm, the one I was using the niddle! Awful...
I just can't not feel the stress or pain of others.

Beside that, some - luckly few - clients after they perform the piercing, confessed me they didn't took proper care of the piercing and had healthy issues because of the lack of treatment.
I'm not the kind of person to let go of feeling responsible for the person, even I'm not guilty in the process.
It's not who I'm!

This situations made me extremely nervous, so nervous I didn't slept for days. I like to help people, never wanted to cause pain to anyone but now I feel my actions may lead disconfort or pain to others.
Honestly I don't understand why someone decided to make a piercing and after that don't take care of it and actively decided to take healthy risks.

I don't understand why after I recommend to remove the piercing, that person decide to keep it even its infected...
It's behind my comprehension! And revolt me.
I can't live in peace with this thoutgh on my mind. No money in the world pays, my peace of mind.
I always feel responsible, no matter what. It's who I am, part of my essence.
So I've decided to stop to perform piercings.
My peace of mind on top of everything, always.
This decision makes me sad however its the most correct for me at this moment.

While I was on holiday I manage to egt some planned stuff done! Of one those were a couple of Octopus mouth clay pieces that I planned to make!
One of the tentacles broke but I think I fix it!

Lets see if the proceess until the end will be ok...

Broke my heart to see one of this piece broken but I think I managed to repaired it! Will have to take them to the kiln and hope everything until its finished will be a success! . #womeninceramic #ceramic #clay #sculpt #sculpture #octopus #octopussculpture #ceramista #ceramist #sesimbra #portugal #portuguese #womeninceramics #handcrafts

Uma publicação compartilhada por Ana Peres (@anaraquelperes) em 1 de Set, 2018 às 10:45 PDT

And enjoy the rest of your day!

I know a blog should have nice post and so on... But this one will not be one of those posts!
Generally when I pick up a pen/pencil to draw/paint I've an idea of what I want to do although the idea may not be completely clear in my head.
But the second I start, the initial idea change.
My creative process 'explode' and I feel a bit hipnosys and I started to draw/paint my feelings!
Usualy I had no idea I had that feeling until that moment. Its like I'm painting my subconscience.
That happened with this painting... I started with a very different idea!
I very aware I'm not a very talent painter but what I was aiming for was nothing like this...
Everytime I stoped and analised the painting I simply hated it and took me some time to figured out why... Its too much Frida Khalo!
I painted my emotions and desires! Too raw and visceral, to much blood, too frontal and everytime I look at it I kepp thinking that I can't concive and that affects me...
Funny thing I also can't finnish the female figure I sculpted in clay
Of course every single time this hypnosis process that places and I end up with a different thing I intented to, I feel like I fail!
Still unable to like this painting and will not touch it more... Had the urge to paint it over with white ink and start over...
And the universe sent me the days afterwards, several Frida Khalo references even saw instagram ads about babies and pregnancies...
Crazy coindicences!!

And enjoy the rest of your day!

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.

A couple days ago I met a very nice lady! We were talking about life, what I do with my life, etc...
I told her I felt different that most of people, including my own best friends! That I've this strange idea which I - eventually - paint or sculpt that strange idea. I mostly wear black because I'm a designer and I have to work with colours every single day and the fact I don't have to look to myself and put my brain to work to get dressed every day, it's so calming!
But the fact I wear, most of time, black and have piercings or tattoos doesn't mean I'm gothic, punk, hardcore girl... No, in fact, I don't think I fit in on any category. And the most funny thing about this is, I don't like to see many people with piercings and/or tattoos.
After a while talking, she told me: "You've graduated and you've worked on night shift to pay your studies. You travel alone. You tattoo for yourself, not to show off. You volunteer. You have a career and enjoy your work. That's so rare."


I have always been so judgmental about myself, because all my life I've been judged by my parents, teachers, basically everyone.
And of course, I started to be a super critical about myself. I want to be perfect, the best of all, always!
That can be good, because makes you sharper, more alert, ambitious but also makes you feel super bad whenever something goes wrong or simply not the way you wanted to be.
I don't tolerate mistakes!

After this conversation I noticed the way people treat me, they normally call me 'Peres' and she spent the all time calling me 'Dra. Ana' and she is also a doctor, with a major degree.
At the end of our conversation she told me I've to realize I'm on a higher level than most of the people! And this hit me like a rock!

This lady made me think about who I'm, what I accomplished throughout my life. And I've realised I need to be more friendly to myself. I've to treat myself better.

So today I treated myself a little bit better!
I deserved a bubble bath, with an excellent red wine to relax.
I like my body, my tattoos, my piercings and I'm proud of myself and found myself so sexy with all of this!

Since a couple of years, around new years eve, I make a list of wishes for the new year...
This year I decided not to do that! Why?
Seems like I make a list of things I must do it, no matter what and if I don't manage to do it, I get this feeling of failure. Which makes this all thing of wishes negative, when was supposed to be positive and not to make me think I'm breaking promises.

I'm not the type of person to say something and not to make it. Everything I decided to do, I do it even if it takes a while... But the pressure is less and I do it whenever I've time, money... whenever I can...
So this year, I will not make a list of 2018 wishes.
However I've a list of stuff I want to do soon, yes I do, but basically I need money.

Nevertheless, I'm anxious for 2018!
The last couple of weeks, were a bit awful... I lost my grandfather, lost my cat and held her in my arms while she died, had serious arguments with people I should argued in the beginning - including coworkers - lots piercings and worked too much.
The last semester was - at least - strange... Had a 'not sure if serious' kind of marriage proposal (not joking), had an extra-marriage - affair - proposal (no, still not joking), cut relationship and stepped away from people who hurt me, tried to do more of what made me happy, like going to concerts and tattoo more. I actually tried to be more open and friendly and be around the ones I enjoy the company and in some cases I should not have done that, I now realized that.

So, I'm anxious for 2018.
Really hope that 2018 be better than 2017, may I be more patience, less stressful, may I travel more and make more tattoos, more good food, more friends, more everything of what is good!
Beside, I already know I will be travelling in January and get the chance to be with my friend Débora in Zurich.
So bring it on 2018.
I wish you all good year and happy new year eve!

So you don't like tattoos?? Its ok... Just don't look, don't call, don't message me...
Feel free to ignore me, because this tattoos will not disappear and the number will eventually grow.






Photos by John Sexton.
And enjoy the rest of your day!

So is supposed I stand still and let the univers work for itself!
Nobody imagine how hard this is for me, the suffering this causes me! The pain just to think I need to stand still and do nothing...

Those who know me, knows I like to do! Make it happen! Act!

I'm not that person to be quiet and do nothing and let things happen for itself. Hate it... hate!
I'm in a rush to see this univers work. I've no patient to wait... I want things to happen and I those who seek because the world is full of weak and lazy people and I will not be one more.

But is supposed for me to stand still...
And if I don't want to?

Photo by Ian Espinosa on Unsplash

And enjoy the rest of your day!