Good afternoon,

I decided to create a sister page for =Aiko273 in which I can upload images taken of myself by other photographers. I don't believe I am particularly pretty, or a fantastic model, but I love to create. I use shoots as a chance to see how other photographers work, picking up tips to improve my own photography. I'm looking to build up my modeling portfolio with interesting images; working with photographers, designers, stylists, artists etc and just see where it takes me!

I've been incredibly busy this past week; on Wednesday I met up with Robin Preston (Laboratorium [link]) for a small shoot, before working together again on Friday at the Digital Photography and Imaging Show [link] We did two live shoots on the Hewlett-Packard and Nik Software stand. HP printed off two [almost] lifesized images that we had shot, which I was allowed to take home! I had to have my housemate hold the prints up so I could take photos of them, sorry for the bad quality! [link] and [link]

Thursday's shoot was the first of a 2-part shoot with Lucie Hollins ([link]) and makeup artist Alice Yunami Marshall ([link]). I won't give away the theme of the shoot but the first look was a kind of orange mime, the second was ethnic with gold dripping from my lips and the last was a Givenchy-esque gothic look with a lot of silver bling. The makeup was airbrushed on and then taken off again 3 times, which made my skin so raw. It was worth it though, I can't wait to see the results!