Photography, models and sex....

I have had a number of interesting conversations recently regarding me and my models...

Firstly, no I do not pay any of the models for their time. I consider this work like art projects, whereby I am lucky if I get anyone to actually pay for limited edition print. I pay for film, developing, and contact sheets. I offer to pay the model back by way of digital files (high res suitable for prints up to A4 size). I build the website on my own and pay for all associated costs for having it up online. Any prints, if have an exhibition and sell, usually pays just enough for all the framing and time put into the having the work up on the walls. But do the models pay me? Well, believe it or not, some of the guys that are online are paid clients. And no, just because someone hires me, does not constitute a position in the gallery. Actually, I'm behind in my work with the website, cause I have a few guys that I photographed but have not had time to put them up...and they certainly deserve to be up there. And to those fews guys that I've conversed with (mainly on msn), I do not sleep with the guys as part of the package to photograph them. Besides, it's none of anyone's business except my own. I do my work as a photographer and the model does his role of modeling. The models need to sign a model release. Finally, the guys on my website does not instantaneously mean that they are gay, nor straight, nor bisexual.

Sorry for the venting, and for putting this as my first LOG in my blog, but the questions I have been asked was just getting to me. Okay...better take a pill.