Inspired by Gia

I think we all sometimes have that moment where you watch a movie, a videoclip or whatever and that something hits you like a brick wall…. whatever you do the image is BURNED in your mind…. this can be a bad thing (oh man I saw some scenes that I wish that didn’t burned into my mind) but in this case it was a positive thing.

Gia tells the life story of Gia Marie Carangi a stunning model with a tragic life story.
Somehow Gia has an incredible appeal to me, maybe it’s the way she is portrayed in the movie by Angelina Jolie, but I think it’s everything put together. As many of you know I don’t particularly like the “posed” images, sometimes I do, but most of the time I love movement, passion, speed and “style”. And Gia…. well she had it all and I agree with the idea that she is indeed the first real super model.

Now I’ve talked before in the past about being inspired and shooting something that inspires you. However I also strongly believe that there is always something that you have to change, making a 1:1 copy is a great learning tool, but if you want to do something for your portfolio I believe you have to make it “your own”, give it a twist, change it……. now in the movie there is a scene where Gia puts on mens underwear and poses for her boyfriend, this scene has actually nothing that could be considered “flat” or “unrated”. But it stuck in my mind like bubblegum. So when Lisanne was in the studio for a glamour workshop I asked her to bring mens underwear (which in fact she had to borrow from her dad because I wanted the really old fashioned ones), and Lissanne of course delivered.

I did not want to copy the scene of course, I wanted to give it some “swung”, some “fashion” but keep it “dated” to that period. Now I’m also a fan of the work of Avedon, Newton etc. and somehow I decided it would be cool to mix everything up and create the following look. Now the images you can see when clicking the link below because I know in some countries they MIGHT be considered “not safe for work” although (as you know by now) I disagree 😀

That’s it for today, hope you liked it, more to come.