LONDON : IN HER OWN WORD 2019
An introduction to London Andrews Part 7
The following is a recreation of a series of posts London did back at the start of 2019, telling her story in her own words.
(Part 7 of 12) After two years of shooting mostly fetish work, I was unhappy. My curiosity of the fetish world had been satiated. My shoots were no longer exciting. I was not creating anything that I felt proud of - While on the road with Matthew, I decided that I wanted to move away from fetish and into glamour modeling…. The problem was that I did not have a portfolio. And unlike the Fetish world, the glam world was not nearly as accepting towards plus size women (this is nearly 12 years ago)…… Most of the photographers straight-up told me, “You are too fat, no one will ever work with you” “Just give up” “Stick to bondage” “Lose some weight!” “I will feed you hamburgers but I am not going to shoot you” (a real line from a real email…ugh….) - But I kept pushing. I kept writing. A few photographers wrote me back…. Andrew Baran, Gregory Prescott, @rhophotos , @thtaylorphotography , @corwinprescott just to name a few …. Their images helped to built my glamour/art nude portfolio….. With their work on my side, I started booking glamour shoots nearly fulltime. I was finally creating work that I felt truly proud of. (at Rochester, New York)
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