WOLF189 What is the difference between Art & Pornography?
The audience’s perception for the most part. Sex is much more natural than violence, greed, over eating and even exercising or art. Your body doesn’t tell you, hey go run or lift some weights today, it’s your head that tells you, hey go lose some weight get healthy and look your best, so you might attract a good looking mate as well. The same story could be told about power, money, fame etc etc, at least porn is honest about its intention. The things I don’t like about porn are not heavily based on my moral values. I am simply too romantic to support porn ... porn appeals to our instincts, biology, genetics and chemical reactions and to me that kills the poetry of it all. I bought into the notion of love at a young age, and I refuse to let go of it. Also the business part of porn industry can get really shady, cruel, abusive and inhuman, however it’s still never as dirty and shady as banking systems or war rooms, political parties, medical industry schemes or church settlements with abused children. There are some good art works are being produced out there still, the ones which are not pretentious nor lecture you and yet require mind, heart and some skill set, not the cheesy clever ones which wow you for a second and leave you with nothing later ... but, in my humble opinion, majority of art, by far, is less honest than porn ...
How do you make your subjects appear so natural and relaxed?
It is because they are actually relaxed and natural in my shoots (for the most part). We live the moments together and I happen to photograph them as well. Hunting the true moments without sacrificing aesthetics and compositions is the main reason I still photograph passionately as I always have. I try to find that point where documentary/journalistic style photography meets editorial fashion meets fine art meets glamour meets erotica meets Krzysztof Kieślowski’s cinema without relying heavily or even lightly on post production or even cropping my frames afterwards. It’s pretty much impossible to keep such a balance, but it is very satisfying for me when I can achieve it or come close to it. All of that, while keeping my subjects unaware of the battle in my head and allowing space and time to us to be present in the moment.