Shot I took on my Holga during the last G&B style shoot. 

light leaks galore.

Here are some headshots I shot the other day! I was about to post this and be all like “SO, WHO WANTS ME TO TAKE THEIR HEADSHOTS/PROMOS/ETC?!” because I just opened up a savings account on account of I’m graduating in May and trynna get my ass up to NYC asap after that.

BUT THEN I remembered… wait… it’s Christmas in a few days. Then I’m going to the beach with my family. Then I have to get everything ready for the gallery show that has to be up by the 8th. And then it’s the new semester. And G&B starts back up.

Shit.

Really, though. If you need photos, let me know and we’ll figure SOMETHING out. Hopefully. Someday. Eventually. Cause I want to take your photos. And your monies. 

unpublished shot from the winter 2011 style spread

Here’s a self I never posted. I love Autumn, and I’m glad now it’s finally getting colder.

And I want/need to read more. Hopefully over winter break. I love Hemingway.

OKAY GOODNIGHT.

Photo of myself for my project.

This roll was shot with a Mamiya 645. I love that camera as well, but man, I’m still head over heels for the RB67.

SO UM… I have fallen completely in love with a camera. That camera is the Mamiya RB67.

It’s absolutely everything I want in a film camera. In fact, if it wasn’t so pricey to only shoot in film/if I didn’t need to instantly see photos I shot when doing things for the magazine, I would totally favor it over my DSLR.

I just wish I got my hands on this baby earlier this semester. As reviews for our projects are NEXT FREAKING WEEK. I’m glad I have 561 next semester to continue and expand on it, though. Just bummed I won’t be as happy with what I’ve got so far for the review.

On one of my last days in NYC, a photog took some portraits of me at Fast Ashleys Studios!

oh hi this is me.

i can’t wait for cooler weather because i’m going to dye my hair pretty dark again and cut in some awesome bangs. aaaand wear red lipstick all the damn time. so, essentially i’ll look like this… but with short hair!

i’d do it now but it is too damn hot/humid to have shorter bangs with my naturly curly hair wanting to show itself whenever i sweat. and i like having dark hair when it’s cold.

(Source: pinupenigma)

So, I got a tattoo yesterday! It says “Vers Libre” which means “Free Verse” in French. Don’t mind how awkward I might look in this photo.

It is the title (the title is in french, i didn’t change it to be cool or anything) of a poem from a poetry book that Philip Morse, my Great Greatsomethingoranother Uncle, wrote back in the late 1800/early 1900s. It was in possession of my Nana, until she passed away and I got it. I used the same script that was used in the book. Took a photo of it, put it into illustrator, and fixed up the kerning. 

Vers Libre

I am free verse.

I express revolution.

And revolutionize expression.

I use everything that is,

From beetle to behemoth;

From milkweed to milky way;

The shallow, babbling brook,

Rivers and lakes, tumultuous seas

That rock and surge beneath all skies.

You call me new? I was not young

When Isreal’s shepherd sung,

And his great son entranced

The multitude with his high harmonies,

I have resurged!

Poesy, propriety, prudery

These p’s are dried and gone to seed;

They rattle in their pods;

I’ll none of them.

My lines and contours run untrammeled, free,

From the waist both ways.

Would you entrap my fluent feet

In cumbersome sabots?

And knead my riotous tresses

Into puffs and coils?

Would you corset me?

Try it!

Truss me in stiff vestment of convention.

Listen!

You shall hear the seams split,

And buttons plop against the chiffonier!

I am free verse.

To me, it means that I cannot be held down by anyone or anything. I am my own self and nothing will ever change that. I am free verse.

Done by Shannon Purvis at Body Rites in Columbia, SC.