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' Full Fashion, fit smooth from neck to ankle, no undershirt to work up, or drawers to work down...'
I've first spotted the imagery of photographer Shax Carter a few years ago, and have enjoyed featuring his work ever since. As I've previously mentioned, I especially love the 'documentary' style Shax utilizes within his work. As a filmmaker, Shax know the value of just a moment, but the connection of moments over longer periods of time.
As a result, Shax rarely has just one shoot a model. Instead, he visually chronicles the same model in different locations over a number of weeks, and sometimes even months. This style of capturing the male form means Shax's shoots are more novel than short story, leading Shax to create books, some with multiple volumes, from his time with induvial models.
Mickey
Shax often shoots at a cabin in the woods. The cabin has wood walls and floors, and lends itself to both comfortable clothing and relaxation. Because many of the models are new to nude shoots, Shax generally begins with clothed shots, including one of the most comfortable clothing options, the onesie. Although not exclusively used at the cabin location, I remembered a few of the models that we featured. were ornamented in onesies.
Given my enthusiasm for noting the 'festive gap', between Christmas and New Years, I asked Shax about featuring a selection of his images featuring models in onesies. Shax sent back a selection of images which he titled model wearing a 'union suit.' It's funny, I'd never heard a onesie called that before. I can't believe in all the years featuring hotties in onesies, it never came up in my research.
Leo
Searching 'union suit', and entirely new level of sites and images came up, educating me, that union suit is actually the original name for comfy and sexy attire. Although first created for women in the 1800's, they were first designed only for women. It wasn't long after though, that men realized their comfort and appeal.
I'm not sure it's exactly a hard truth, it's said the term union suit comes from the fact that the top and bottom of the long underwear were united. The term union, meaning the combination suit. Unlike regular long johns and under shirts, a union suit has the top and bottom combined together, as just one piece of clothing.
One of the last stories Shax shared featured his work with Ricky. (below) Some of you may remember that Ricky is actually the younger brother of Leo whose images are just above. When I posted Ricky's story, he was away, working with the armed forces. He returned however, just before Christmas, more mature, and looking hotter than ever. His shorter hair really suits him, and you can visually feel the impact of his recent experiences in his facial expressions and confidence.
Ricky
Although his growth is clear, somethings, like natural sibling competition, are harder to let go of. When Ricky realized Shax had four volumes of books spotlighting his older brother, he was eager to get back in front of the camera, to create new stories, as well as new images, to capture the changes in his life.
So, instead of just featuring previous images from his portfolio, Shax and Ricky got together to create this brand new series to go with the others. The changes in Ricky are viewable evidence of how visually significant Shax's style of shooting can be. Shax and Ricky took even more shots, sans the onesie, that hopefully, I'll be sharing soon.
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