Beyond the Obvious: Kay by The Third Eye

'Kay can pose like nobodies business, he instinctively knows what looks good in front of the camera and has some chameleon like qualities . I felt blessed to have worked with him.'

Richard, The Third Eye

The Third Eye has become one of my favorites artist's to feature on  FH.  I love both the images he captures, and exploring the stories that they tell.  When I most recently featured Richard's work this past September,  (A Layered Perspective)  I was saddened when the Ohio based photographer shared that the shoot with Nathan would be his last.

I don't believe artists can ever really stop creating, even if their creative idea's remain exclusively in thought.   I had a hunch Richard might be drawn back, but although shares he does miss shooting, and has shot a couple of times at his home, Richard shares that since ending his studio lease, he's been enjoying a far less stressful existence.   Richard did however promise that he'd stored plenty of nuts, and would be happy to share plenty of those nuts (shoots) once he had time to go through and edit the images.

One of those shoots was with Kay, a Columbus based model who's images I'd been recently enjoying in his work with a number of my favorite photographers.  As you can see, the Columbus based model has a beautiful fluidity in front of the camera, creating elegantly erotic visuals.  Professionally involved in the arts himself, Kay works extensively with models within his own career.  Through his work, Kay was often called upon to pose and found he had a liking for it.

'I work with models myself, in my own job, and I've been around visual people for quite some time. I'd modeled for life drawing classes in college, but never given posing for photos any thought until a model I was working with actually asked me to model for him. It took me by surprise, but I ended up doing it, and found it a really positive experience!'

Kay

Kay had seen and like Richard's work before, liked what he saw, and he reached out about doing a shoot.  Richard was still in his studio which Kay remembers a great space in a converted old industrial building with large windows.  They completed the entire shoot under the natural light from those incredible windows.

'Kay was very memorable for me, (not just the obvious) because he cared about what he was doing and took pride in his work. He was also very pleasant and easy to collaborate. Since Kay is a full time artist himself, he can pose very well based on what is appealing to his own eye.'

Richard

With the on-line world full of images of great looking bodies, creating memorable impressions can be a challenge. Richard's description of Kay's pride in his work very much parallels what I've come to know about Richard's artistic philosophy.  His natural ability, and his natural inclination, to use the third eye, to see beyond the surface, beyond the obvious, is what for me, gives Richard's work such depth and resonance.

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