'In 2010 I received a Canon EOS Rebel for Christmas not knowing how it would explode my life into this new and exciting direction.'
I always love discovering new talent, both those who excel in front of, or behind the camera. In this case...he shines at both. The gorgeous specimen of a man you're looking at is photographer Owen DeValk, an artist I'm kicking myself for not discovering earlier. Thanks to a recent post on DC however, I'm now fully caught up!
As you can see, this talented photographer likes to turn his lens on himself, and why wouldn't he? Those lips, those nips, those sensuous hips! That handsome face with a beautiful and powerful pair of bedroom eyes. On his website, Owen's focus is mostly on his work as a photographer. On social media however, he generously shares a seductive selection of self-portraits and shares even more on his OnlyFans.
Owen was still in high school when Santa left that Canon EOS Rebel under the Christmas tree. With a great photography program in his high school, Owen was already perfecting the secret to becoming a great photographer. Owen was keenly aware that whenever a camera comes out, an invisible barrier arises and a subjects guard rises.
Even when they're not aware if it, most people instinctually act differently when being shot or filmed. Owen's goal was to remove this barrier, or at least get past it, to shoot his subjects as he saw them, as authentically as was possible. This, as simple as it sounds, is the key to great images, and why so many of the artists I feature, spend time getting to know their models, and building trust before taking out the camera and asking them to expose both their bodies, and often their souls.
After graduating high school, Owen attended the Savannah College of Art and Design. It was there, he had the opportunity to spend a summer in New York interning for legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber. This opened Owen's yes to the many new and different forms and directions that fashion photography can take.
'It’s remarkable because the world of fashion is incredibly fast and always changing so the world of fashion photography has to keep pace, but Bruce- despite the massive production and scale- was still always able to draw out that authenticity. To photograph someone like we’d caught a glimpse into the middle of an ongoing narrative.'
Owen for Voyage LA Magazine
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