In my early years before I decided to start a website and put everything into one place, I used to have my entire online presence spread across various social media accounts. I don’t know why I thought it was a good idea, but I decided that I should try to maintain three different blogs in an attempt to segment my content for the people who would be viewing it.
Looking back now, I realize now that sometimes it’s hard enough to focus on one blog, much less three. So when UNEXPhotography.com launched I consolidated two of the blogs into one, and left the third active but hidden from my navigation.
This blog, the NSFW blog, was always something that I never knew where it fit into my body of work. When I started this part of my life, the idea was always to capture and document the “different” the “alternative” (and for the first few years I had varying degrees of success and failure with this task).
This is sadly all that is left of Zivity today.
From 2013 until it closed in 2017 I was a regular contributor to a website called Zivity for a handful of alternative models that submitted cheesecake artistic nude photos to the site. I would use my NSFW blog as a place to promote new sets and maybe find a way to send a few extra clicks my way from people who otherwise wouldn’t pay $10 a month for a subscription.
(A couple of images I snapped of Titan in a previous life, under a previous alias. Also ignore my old shitty watermark if you would please.)
After Zivity shut down, I struggled to find a replacement that ticked all the same boxes, only to end up frustrated by bad contracts and poorly managed clones. It was around this time that I started getting booked for more cosplayers and burlesque performers, and while this work is usually fun to produce, it’s just not the same. I faced a challenge where I either needed to rebrand or clean up my image. It may be true that “sex sells” but the type of commercial clients with actual budgets don’t typically hire the same kind of people shooting nude-human content.
And while I still create content with a sharp edge, for the most part, you won’t see any nudity (artistic or otherwise) in my main feed. Even though I occasionally still create work for various “content creators” to use on their subscription services.
That’s Karina, more on her later.
I’ve been saying for years that I wanted to get back to my roots in my body of work. But again the question remains of how do I straddle the line between more traditional paying clients, and the type of work I want to be shooting more of.
At the time I’m writing this blog post, Instagram is currently on the verge of passing a new Terms of Service policy where they are taking more drastic steps of what arguably can be called censorship. They also are making a blanket sweep and ban on accounts of models and performers who are offering ways for fans to see more risqué content.
Editor’s note, this was written several months ago now and I’m just now getting around to posting it. Sorry. I’ve been busy.
I was talking to a few people on Twitter about these upcoming changes, and I mentioned that I am thankful to have my own site and domain where I can post just about anything I want to (as long as it doesn’t break the law anyway).
So this serves as a double announcement I guess. First this marks the return of the NSFW blog and a new landing page for this kind of content. Secondly I want to take some time to work with some new and old clients to create something a little more edgy (and more importantly have a place for this content to live).
UNEXPhotography.com/nsfw
So, that being said, anyone out there looking to create something for your “fan club”, let me know. I’d love to find a way to create a content-partnership where we can both benefit.
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