Secret Pornographers
Well, it’s finally happened.
After saying we never would, after declaring we were immensely proud of our artistic work, we’ve now called it quits and removed our names from our web site.
From now on Rich will be known by his online nickname Mr Fluffy, and I’ll just be Lin. There goes my potential aspirations as an art writer/critic of nude photographic art, and bye bye Rich making a name for himself in serious figure study photography. Farewell to him ever being featured in the prestigious Photographer’s Gallery in London, or ever getting any sort of exhibition. All that goodwill and reputation built up over the last few years? It’s gone. Erased from our web site and online profiles, just like that.
To all you other models and photographers who use pseudonyms out there, rather than your real names: you were right, we were wrong. Clearly we were just being hopelessly naïve.
Now we’ve sacrificed our artistic pride and our honesty and we’ve gone to ground. Reality bites. Nude photography, no matter how artistic we try to make it, will be our dirty little secret. Sod creative art, from now on we’ll just be dirty photographic pornographers, guy (and girl) with camera, hiding our true nature by day and shooting thrill-seeking-dirty-piccies by night.
The reason?
The latest trend amongst the Hogwarts mummies and daddies, before they let their beloved little darlings come around to play with our sons, is to Google the name of the parents. We are being checked out to make sure we are “suitable” before other kids are being allowed to be friends with ours. Apparently we are very "unsuitable."
Shit.
How do you choose between your kids and your artistic identity?
If we sound bitter, it’s because we are.
A highly unsuitable image, which matches my highly unsuitable mood.
After saying we never would, after declaring we were immensely proud of our artistic work, we’ve now called it quits and removed our names from our web site.
From now on Rich will be known by his online nickname Mr Fluffy, and I’ll just be Lin. There goes my potential aspirations as an art writer/critic of nude photographic art, and bye bye Rich making a name for himself in serious figure study photography. Farewell to him ever being featured in the prestigious Photographer’s Gallery in London, or ever getting any sort of exhibition. All that goodwill and reputation built up over the last few years? It’s gone. Erased from our web site and online profiles, just like that.
To all you other models and photographers who use pseudonyms out there, rather than your real names: you were right, we were wrong. Clearly we were just being hopelessly naïve.
Now we’ve sacrificed our artistic pride and our honesty and we’ve gone to ground. Reality bites. Nude photography, no matter how artistic we try to make it, will be our dirty little secret. Sod creative art, from now on we’ll just be dirty photographic pornographers, guy (and girl) with camera, hiding our true nature by day and shooting thrill-seeking-dirty-piccies by night.
The reason?
The latest trend amongst the Hogwarts mummies and daddies, before they let their beloved little darlings come around to play with our sons, is to Google the name of the parents. We are being checked out to make sure we are “suitable” before other kids are being allowed to be friends with ours. Apparently we are very "unsuitable."
Shit.
How do you choose between your kids and your artistic identity?
If we sound bitter, it’s because we are.
A highly unsuitable image, which matches my highly unsuitable mood.
posted by Lin at 8:59 AM
8 Comments:
Dude, that's awful.
The world is not good.
I'm glad you're at least continuing on with the blog and the photography, even if you have to go underground.
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I don't think it's a choice between one or the other. It's just managing one around the other.
Fuck em!
Oh, Lin, what a shame! I am so sorry but not at all surprised.
We live in conservative times.
I would think it's too late to hide, isn't it?
Even if you would delete the blog, you could still be found via Google, Google's cache is the memory of the web...
Lin, I'm sorry to hear about this...
Well I guess you could Google them and see if THEY are the type of people you want YOUR kids to associate with.
I'm sure some of them have much worse things to hide than you guys do.
They could be the kind of people that would let the staff give your kids unhealthy snacks or the wrong brand of drink. Why should you have your kids exposed to the wrong brand of bottled water when you don't have to.
Plus when the kids eventually find out - your going to be the coolest parents - not them.
I agree it's probably too late. The web has a long memory. I'm not good at this computer stuff and it amazes me sometimes what I can find out by doing a little web searching.
In the long run it's probably better to try an mitigate the damage like your doing, because it's no use to put the kids in the middle of adult prejudice and stupidity.
D.L. Wood
There are advantages to being old and doing this sort of thing. The kids are grown. They've moved away and have lives of their own. You no longer care if the "right" social circles approve. No one can deny you a mortgage. No one can fire you.
Sorry to learn of your troubles. Even more than for your own sakes, I hope it hasn't affected the heir apparent.
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