I cannot believe I am finally getting these photos up. I shot these photos (and many more) back in January at the AVN Awards and these were supposed to have gone up in February. The first gallery I posted was of Maya Rue, because I did three shoots with her and I wanted to spread them out. Shortly after those went up my website got hacked. By mid April I thought it had been fixed, but the malware was just laying dormant. I was about to post these photos of Emma Starseed and Olivia Wildin at that time but when I went through them I realized that the digital ones weren’t enough and I wanted to publish the 35mm photos at the same time. I had just sent off the film to my lab in NYC so I figured I would get up these photos of Connie Perignon and then the Emma & Olivia photos would go up a week or two later… but then the hack was back. Finally months later all the malware is gone and my site is functional again and I am now paying someone to keep it that way going forward. It was a whole ordeal and you can read more about the hack here, but in the meantime, let’s get to some photos!
I met Emma through my friend Goldie Fawn (who has her own shoot waiting to be published) because they are both cam girls over on MyFreeCams. I honestly cannot tell you how many MFC models I have photographed, but it’s a lot and shout out to Goldie who keeps telling cam babes about me. Anyway, when I met Emma on the floor of the AVN Expo she told me had been following me for a while and was psyched to take photos with me. I pitched her on doing some sort of BTS thing that I love to do so I went and took some photos of her on the last day of AVN week while she was getting her hair and makeup done for the Awards that night. I took a handful of photos of her there and the plan was to shoot after that, but they told me it would take over an hour so I went down to the floor and then the chaos of the week got in the way and I didn’t meet up with her until much later.
When I finally met up with Emma she was with a crew of people in one of her fans hotel suites, including her cam partner Olivia Wildin. It was a great place to shoot but I honestly hate shooting portraits when a bunch of people are around. I think my strength as a photographer is making people comfortable and trying to find moments that feel real, and that’s hard to do when a lot is happening. That being said, I love that environment as documentary photographer so for the first 30 minutes or so I was there I was mostly a fly on the wall shooting whatever they were up to, getting ready, making content, hanging out, etc.
Eventually I photographed just Emma and Olivia in the sort of bedroom area in their AVN dresses. They couldn’t really get out of their dresses easily so it wasn’t my normal traditional nude shoot, but that didn’t stop these photos from being very NSFW. The two of them are very cute together and we also shot some pretty photos of the two of them with another MFC model named Aspen Eden. In the end we got some very nice shots, but I also wanted to get the 35mm stuff in there because some of my favorite photos were the more behind the scenes stuff. Oh and we also shot some stuff in the hallway I liked a lot!
Anyway, I am glad we got to do this shoot, and so glad these photos are finally going up, but I really hope I get to photograph them again in the future with a little less chaos and a little more time because they were great to photograph. Perhaps maybe one day on Emma’s farm. Did I mention Emma has a farm? What a life.
Check out the gallery below for some of the safe for work images, and then head over to Girls of Driven By Boredom for the nudes. There are 82 images in the full gallery between the film and digital, so you probably want to check that one out…
