This summer will be the 10 year anniversary of the last time I did a photo shoot with Joanna Angel. Amazingly I did my second shoot with her just a few weeks ago. I have known Joanna pretty much our entire adult lives and for a while her Burning Angel girls probably accounted for 90% of my sex life.

We have been through a lot together including the death of our good friend DJ Jess who we lost two years ago last week. I met Jess at the first Burning Angel party I ever went to and he became one of my first nightlife clients. Joanna and I even got tattoos in his honor together.

Anyway, back in 2007 when I shot Joanna I was a truly terrible photographer. We shot in the walk in fridge at a club called Luke & Leroy’s where they used to hold the infamous Rated X Panty Party. We probably shot the whole thing in 5 minutes but to be honest those photos are pretty hot looking back despite them being technically awful.

10 years later I got to shoot Joanna again, but this time at her beautiful LA home and we had plenty of time to shoot. It turns out I am still a pretty bad photographer because of all the lovely spaces at her place I chose to shoot in the room with aggressive back light, a trashcan in the background and a tiny orange sticker on one of the windows that I didn’t see at the time but now haunts me.

Fortunately Joanna is still a babe 10 years later into the future and I don’t think anyone cares about the technical quality of my god damn nudes. You just wanna look at babes and I got you the queen of the tattooed babes Joanna Angel!

Click here to see a bunch of photos of my old friend Joanna Angel!

Ps. There are a couple bonus shots and higher res versions of these on the Girls of Driven By Boredom.

Just when you thought your day couldn’t get any better, I bring you free naked pictures of the queen of the Burning Angels, Joanna Angel.  She is the star of such amazing films as Porny Monster, Kill Girl Kill 3, Joanna’s Angels and Cum On My Tattoo. When you think of Alt Porn, you think of Joanna.  So here she is, in full NSFW glory. You can thank me AFTER you put your pants back on.

This weekend was the 10th annual New Jersey Exxxotica. I actually went to the very first one back when it was supposed to be Exxxotica New York but it got moved at the last moment. I met Stoya there who has let me crash with her at a couple Exxxoticas and was the inspiration for my Dinner With Igor book (and she signed some copies of my new book if you want one). The first one was really one of my first introductions to the adult industry aside from shooting Burning Angel parties. It’s cool to see where it’s gone in 10 years.

Also a big difference is that this time I was actually working for Exxxotica. My buddy Steve Prue is their main shooter and he wanted to do some portraits last year so they had me shoot for a few hours last year while he was doing that. I guess they dug my stuff because this year they brought me back to be a second shooter on Friday and Saturday. I had to be back in NYC to watch the Dolphins lose last night so I missed Sunday but I am sure it was a good time.

Usually when I cover a convention I am turning in 50 photos for a gallery on a website somewhere so I can hang out and fuck around and bang out a gallery in a couple hours. Shooting for Exxxotica I was pretty much going non stop and took a million photos which I edited down into a gallery of nearly 400! Fortunately for me my girlfriend Gia Paige was signing autographs all weekend so I got to hang out with her every couple of laps around the convention. Not the worst thing ever.

Not sure what else to mention (Ton Loc was there?!) but there’s a massive gallery for you to look through. If you want more info on some of my favorite pictures I did a pretty long Twitter thread yesterday. I also uploaded all the pictures to Girls of Driven By Boredom in high res and the gallery is way easier to navigate if you want to look through them all quickly. Really I just want to sell you stuff.

Speaking of selling you stuff, I got a bunch of girls to sign the mini edition of Instaxxx while I was walking around the convention. I got 5 copies signed by Gia, Abella Danger, Jojo Kiss, Charlotte Sartre, Jillian Janson, Joanna Angel, and Bobbi Dylan. I haven’t put em up for sale but I think I am gonna charge like $100 so if you want one email me now at igor@drivenbyboredom.com and we can work something out before they go up. And speaking of selling you stuff and Charlotte Sartre, a guy showed up wearing this shirt I made and had her sign it. I thought that was pretty great.

Okay, that’s enough of this. Gia is here and I gotta hang out with her instead of my computer. Go look at all these damn photos and congrats to Exxxotica on 10 years. Hope you guys have me back for a bunch more.

Click here to see all the photos from the 10th Exxxotica New Jersey in Edison, NJ.

I am back from my two week LA & Vegas trip and ready to get you some photos. I do this trip nearly every year around the Adult Video News Awards. I think I have shot the AVNs or at least the events around the AVNs every year since 2008. The trip is how I got started photographing people in the adult industry and now it’s become a good way to see friends, meet new models and make some money… plus with only a few hour drive to LA it’s a good excuse to hit up LA for a week without having to pay for a flight.

Given that the AVN Awards happened over a week ago I am clearly a bit late on these photos, but I shot them for the LA Weekly and posted that link everywhere so I figured that if you really wanted to see my AVN Awards coverage you had plenty of opportunities to do so. That being said, my edit is much bigger than the LA Weekly gallery and of course you don’t get to read a long, pointless, poorly written blog about it.

This year’s AVN’s were pretty cool because a lot of my friends won stuff. Adriana Chechik won Female Performer of the Year, Greg Lansky won back to back Director of the Year awards and my friends cleaned up the acting awards. Best supporting actress went to Joanna Angel and Xander Corvus won best actor. Best Actress went to Kleio Valentien who I actually helped get into porn many years ago after sending this 2009 photo shoot to Burning Angel! (Update: That gallery is broken for some reason but you can find it on Girls of DBB!)

Also it was hosted by Riley Reid (and Aspen Rae) and a bunch of other friends won awards too like my LA landlord Abella Danger who won best Star Showcase. Holly Hendrix won Best New Starlet and we aren’t friends yet but we talked about shooting soon so hopefully we will be by next AVN.  Oh, and Sgt Kabukiman NYPD was there and he’s pretty much family.

Okay, let’s get to these photos. My shots from the Adult Entertainment Expo will be up ASAP too.

Ps. Donate to my Kickstarter. Many AVN Awards winners are in the book.

PPs. Did I mention Flo Rida performed? He did. We got low.

Click here to see all the photos from the 2017 AVN Awards at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, NV.

I have known Romance ever since she was a Gods Girl. We had talked about shooting in Vegas when she lived there years ago but it never worked out. But then I ran into her in Vegas with Angel Beau and didn’t even realize it was her until after the fact. Then she got on Burning Angel and started doing actual adult movies and stuff and I wanted to shoot her even more but by the time we had a chance to shoot she had moved from Vegas and even though she was in town for the AVN Awards she was always super busy. Fortunately this AVN it finally all worked out.

I always stay in Vegas an extra day during the AVN Weekend. Hotels are super cheap on Sunday’s and I can just try and relax after an exhausting weekend. I have to get all my photos to clients by Monday so I spend all day editing photos in a hotel bed eating room service and watching playoff football. Plus I can usually manage to get in a shoot with someone who was too busy during the weekend but was staying an extra day too.

This year that person was Romance.

She showed up to my hotel room a bit too late for good lighting but I was just happy to have her. I threw a flash on my camera and started shooting. She had brought her friend with her who was doing her make up but her friend was this hot goth babe named Phoebe Phelpz and she was down to get in some photos too. I started shooting Romance and then threw Phoebe in there and did this little mini shoot to start.

At some point during the shoot I got super lazy and just got back on the bed and shot them from there while I watched football. I essentially got a lap dance from two babes while watching football and technically I was working. It was not the worst way to spend an evening.

Also, given that I was on the bed there are a bunch of shots of me shooting up at them which was pretty fun but also makes for some fairly graphic photos that I wouldn’t want to post on such a prude website as this. Fortunately for you there are a bunch of those explicit shots up on Girls of Driven By Boredom.

Anyway this is my last set from my 2016 AVN trip which is funny because I think I still haven’t posted stuff from 2015. I kinda suck at posting stuff sometimes. Mostly I just forget. This got a little long so let’s get to the damn pictures already.

Click here to see all the NSFW photos of Romance and Phoebe Phelpz!

Now I realize posting a massive gallery of over 100 images of naked porn stars on a Friday evening seems like bad timing but their is a method to my madness. I am headed to LA in two weeks and I plan on taking a massive amount of naked photos while I am there and I realized I have a TON of old naked content that hasn’t seen the light of day. That means I need to dump a bunch of it on you guys in what I like to call NSFW Week.

NSFW Weeks have happened from time to time on this site when I realize that I have way too much content that I have been holding onto, but this one is extra special. Not only are you going to get five posts every day next week, but there is going to be some really good stuff AND you get a discount to Girls Of Driven By Boredom so you can see all the bonus stuff at a discount. Use the code nsfwweek for 20% off!

So this whole party starts with a Friday night dump of a ton of the stuff I shot while I was in Vegas in January for the AVN Awards. The crazy thing is that most of this gallery (plus a bunch more dirtier stuff) has been on Girls Of Driven By Boredom SINCE January but I am just now giving you guys this stuff for free. Starting on Sunday I will be releasing a new girl gallery to Girls of DBB one day before it shows up on this site. That means if you sign up for Girls of DBB you will get to see every set a day in advance AND you will get higher resolution images and more importantly for most of you creeps all the spread leg shots and extra dirty photos that are too offensive to put on such a high brow website as this one.

Now let’s get to these photos. To star with I shot my old pal (and two different prostitutes on Game of Thrones!) Samantha Bentley. We were just fucking around with my camera in her hotel room when Dahlia Sky came up to the room so I shot the two of them together. The photos were mostly just for fun but it made for a great photo of me… In the mix are some photos of Adriana Chechik doing weird shit like she do, Lily LaBeau looking like a fashion model like she do, and some shots of Burning Angels Taurus and Veronica Rose.

Continuing with the Vegas madness I shot BBW babe Marilyn Mayson in the back of my rental car and the insane Ashlee Graham on a total strangers shoulders. I was racing the sun as I made it to British porn star Jasmine Jae’s hotel room and I didn’t think I was going to make it but I realized if I shot her between her curtains in the window there was just enough light to shoot a mini set of her. After that I grabbed British porn girls Amarna Miller and Silvia Rubi and took them up to the roof with a cam girl I met named Jane and a random lady she met at a swingers party the night before. Jane’s friend was just there to make sure Jane didn’t get murdered but she ended up getting naked too!

Let’s see what else… I shot Lucy Everleigh and Anya Amsel on the roof too. I had been trying to shoot Lucy FOREVER and finally got to meet her. Apparently she lives in wherever she lives and just cams and never actually does photoshoot. I took her photo shoot virginity and you will get to see a full set of her (in a bathtub) next week! By the way Anya Amsel is such a babe and one of these days I am going to hopefully do a shoot with her. I didn’t know who she was until Lucy introduced us but now I am kinda in love.

Lastly I did a shoot with a reporter named Rachel Rabbit White who was writing about AVN for Thought Catalog and decided getting naked in a bathroom would be good for the story. I highly supported her decision.

Okay, so here is a gallery full of over 100 naked photos and there’s even more on Girls of DBB (discount code nsfwweek!) Go enjoy these photos alone at home on Friday night and then come back next week for a new babe every day!

Click here to see all the photos of naked babes in Vegas during the 2014 AVN Awards!

PS. Now would be an ideal time to get a copy of my super rare print collection, What Happens In Vegas!

As more and more luxury buildings move into the Lower East Side and bars close and rent goes up people are increasingly talking about the death of New York nightlife. More of my friends are moving to LA and nothing seems fun anymore. I am sure a lot of that is just me getting old, but New York nightlife took a huge hit last night with the death of DJ Jess Marquis.

I took some really fun photos at this Empire Records party last night but those shots are going to have to wait while I deal with the death of one of my first friends in NYC and a true champion of the old New York.

I have had a bunch of friends die in my life, and too many recently. I think about Ease Da Man all the time and Dust La Rock’s passing was a gut punch but as much as I miss those dudes neither could come close to the impact that Jess had on my life.

Jess’ legendary party Trash was my favorite party in New York of all time. It was one of the first parties I went to and when it was at Rififi it was as good as any weekly party could ever get. Jess also threw Rated X which was probably the most insanely fun and debaucherous party outside of Motherfucker which of course Jess also DJd. His Thursday night party “in the seedy basement of Lit”, NC-17, was one of the best places to get people naked.

Honestly, now that I think about it Jess’ parties are responsible for a massive amount of my sex life. I mean I met all the Burning Angel’s at his parties and they formed my dating pool for years. I met my first girlfriend in NYC at Trash and Jess even through a party for the 10th anniversary of me losing my virginity!

Jess threw every birthday party I had in NYC including my 27th birthday party which was easily the most insane night of my life and my 30th birthday party which was also the last birthday party I ever had. He threw Driven By Boredom anniversary parties and was one of the reasons I went to the AVN Awards for the first time. He just had such a big impact on my life.

I wouldn’t be doing anything I am doing today if it weren’t for him. I started nightlife photography to take photos at his parties. He might have been the first person ever to pay me to do it, even if it was just in drink tickets or something. I wouldn’t know porn people if it weren’t for that AVN trip. I started shooting for the Village Voice because they loved all the nudity I got at crazy parties. Nearly every one of those parties Jess threw.

I always told Jess how corny I thought he was. He was this drama kid turned nightlife icon who was so over the top about everything. I am so apathetic and Jess was the exact opposite and his love for burlesque and Morrissey made me roll my eyes. I blame him for the fact that I know all the lyrics to a dozen fucking Smiths songs. He was just so fucking silly and would make me take photo after photo of him and wouldn’t tell anyone he was probably 5 years older than they all thought he was. I gave him shit for all of it, but I would kill to care about anything as much as he did all of this shit.

I can still remember all the lines he delivered night after night at his many many parties. “What’s up you sexy motherfuckers?!” and “Two for one drinks at the bar! If you buy one you get one free!” are the first two that pop in my mind right now but I know I will never have to worry about forgetting his voice. And I will never forget his face because he never aged and I have more photos of him than probably any other person I have ever photographed.

Speaking of, Jess was a great nightlife photographer and I used to look at his work every day when I was first shooting party photos. He just put down the camera at some point to focus on music but for my money he was as good as anyone capturing the downtown scene in New York. I am not sure what’s going to happen to his stuff, but I would kill to get a copy of his hard drive so I could do a book of his nightlife photos.

In recent years I haven’t spent a lot of time with Jess. He stopped doing Trash to focus on doing his own music. He wanted to tour and stop playing the same new wave songs every single night. He was still throwing tons of parties but I can’t stand going into the city anymore so I never saw him. I honestly couldn’t tell you the last time we hung out but I was following all the shit he was doing and I know he was on top of my shit too.

Jess was the defender of nightlife. He was responsible for giving wave after wave of young kids coming to New York a sense of what NYC was like back in the 70s and 80s and making us understand that it was our responsibility to carry on that tradition and make sure to get as weird and as fucked up as humanly possible.

Jess I fucking love you man and it fucking kills me that I am never going to get to take your picture again.

Today I spent an hour pulling tons of photos I took of Jess. There are a lot of these that aren’t great photos and there are so many great ones I couldn’t find. At some point I just couldn’t look at photos of Jess anymore. That being said I pulled nearly 80 photos of him and I hope everyone who loved him, and I know there are a lot of you, gets a chance to check out this gallery.

Click here to see some of my photos of DJ Jess Marquis from pretty much 2008 on. The earlier stuff is terrible.

I have been in Vegas for about a day and I have taken some pretty fun photos. Unfortunately it was all after dark so it’s been all flash stuff. No natural light really. Still, I think you are going to dig some of this stuff.

I headed down to the Adult Entertainment Expo and I took a few photos there after I got my credentials and then I went to check in to my hotel. By the time I got back down to the Hard Rock it was getting dark but I ended up shooting my old friend Samantha Bentley. In the middle of our shoot Dahlia Sky showed up so we took a bunch of photos with her too and then my friend Ronen took photos of the three of us.

After that I tried to shoot Adriana Chechik again but she was doing a podcast so Sam and I went up there and ended up on the Porn Directors Podcast. When it was over I took a few photos of Sam, Adriana and Belle Noire who actually retired from porn but was in town with Adriana and doing make up for girls at the convention.

By the time that was over it was pretty late but I ran into some Burning Angels  and snuck out to the parking garage to shoot a handful of photos with Veronica Rose and Taurus.

After that I put my digital camera away but took some more film stuff at parties and around the Hard Rock so I might have some more cool stuff.

Here are a few preview images to hold you over!

I met Asphyxia Noir years ago when I picked her up at a bus station in Vegas as a favor to the Burning Angel crew while they were trying to organize a party they threw during the AVN Award weekend. I ended up shooting her in a bathroom at that party with Skin Diamond and then years later I shot the two of them again right after the AVN Awards. I really loved that post-AVN shoot but I still wanted to shoot Asphyxia on her own.

Luckily a few months ago I got the chance. I was in LA and I hit Asphyxia up and we made plans for a sunrise set but it’s hard to get anyone awake at 5am so I had a feeling it wasn’t going to work out. I called her to wake her up and she told me she was sick. I figured she was just flaking on me because it was super early but I was happy to go to sleep anyway. Later that day she hit me up and told me she could shoot so I met up with her and it was immediately clear that she didn’t flake on me. She really was sick.

Despite her being reasonably close to death the shoot turned out really well. Asphyxia is such a rad model and easy to shoot even though she would get dizzy every time she held a pose for too long. She had a dress she wanted to rip up and we spent about 20 minutes destroying the thing. Usually something like this would be a bit contrived for me but Asphyxia killed it.

At some point she could barely stand up but we still took some bonus dirty shots that are exclusively available on the Girls of Driven By Boredom app (all in high resolution!) and then I let her finally go back to sleep.

In conclusion, Asphyxia rules, she didn’t die and her boobs are so rad it makes me cry a single tear every time I think of them.

Now click here to see all the NSFW photos of Asphyxia Noir!