Orgasm has come to mean a replenishment of energy – a vibrating splash that throws you into the cave and you end up floating with this feeling. It’s like tiny pearls popping off of a strand — pearls that pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop until it’s over. It puts you in a […]
Tag: female sexuality
Photographer’s journey: Changing my photographic style for Maria Beatty
Maria Beatty, a filmmaker who lived on the 5th floor of the Chelsea Hotel, was among the first women to agree to be in my book Erotic Lives of Women. As a hotel lobby friend she trusted me, so she invited us (co-editor Marion and I) to her room to shoot her and a partner’s […]
Photographer’s journey: Discovering and exploring my sexuality for the first time
As a child I stood in the hall outside the open door of my parents’ bedroom listening to the sound of my father’s breathing. He couldn’t sleep. My mother said I mustn’t disturb him as he was recovering from a heart attack and was weak from his World War II injuries. He was in his […]
Photographer’s journey: The dangerous road to knowing yourself
Through book projects I’ve discovered over and over how life affirming sexual pleasure is. I was obliged to care for my parents at an early age and this interfered with my personal space, which is why I still offer immediacy easily to people as I think I will gain insight and connection with them. Sometimes […]