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.

After some people vote yes to this recipe, I wrote it. If I made this with only one hand, I'm sure you all will be just fine.

Actually is very simple.

Saffron rice

Put olive oil in a pan with garlic, let it fried a bit and put the rice. Stir and add the saffron. Stir again, add the water, salt and let it simmer. Rice done!

Roasted chicken

Boil water with salt and mint. Add the chicken and simmer for 10 min.
Meanwhile cut the small potatoes in half.
In a mortar put the juice of half lemon, some water where the chicken cooked with spices and a quarter of a coriander, smash everything!

After the chicken is cooked, cut it in 4 display in a food platter appropriate to woven, potatoes on the side of the chicken, the black garlic, shallots, olive oil, butter, chorizo and more mint.
Cover everything with aluminum sheet and goes inside the oven for 20min.
After that period, turn the chicken, cover it again and simmer for more 20mn. You can use the water for cooking the chicken to moister the meat.
Minutes before the chicken is ready, put some honey on top of the meat and potatoes and leave it cook for more 5 min without the aluminum sheet. Done!