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Daniel by Jack Saul
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Monday, October 7, 2024
The Winner Takes It All
The loser's standing small...
I love doing features on contests, especially when those contests include hordes of hot hotties. Over the years I featured many competitions focused on the male form. From stripping contests, male beauty pageants, Mister Nude and my annual Halloween costume contest.
FH even launched it's own model search contests, the first, with photographer Chris Teel, crowned model Matt Eldracher, (below) the winner. I think it might be time to consider another, especially given how popular Matt was, and continues to be.
This next contest I'm uncovering is a little more up close and personal. It also requires a more scientific judging method. The winner is the hottie below, but if you want to see if he really measured up for the win, check him, and other contestants, sans towels, on the NEXT PAGE HERE:
Horror Hunks: Casey Manderson in Glass
'Who's Watching Who?'
Although you might not immedeately recognize the name, I'm guessing many of you recognize the face and all of you, especially if you watch Hallmark movies, have seen actor Casey Manderson before. The Canadian actor has been a staple on television the last decade appearing on shows including; Fringe, Blue Bloods and The Witches of Eastend.
I first noticed the handsome and sexy Manderson on Hallmark, playing everything from the romantic lead, the ex-boyfriend, the boss and thorn in the way of budding romance. Some of you may have seen him in one of his dozens of roles in Hallmark films including: Seasons Greetings, Mingle All The Way, Fixing Up Christmas, A Doggone Christmas and The Christmas Ring.
After seeing him in Mingle All The Way last year, I planned on doing a 12 Days focused on the actor and his Hallmark films. A little research however, led me to his multiple nude scenes in the 2015 horror thriller Glass. The Vince D'Amato directed film was released by the British Columbia based Darkside Media, a horror genre based company managed and created by D'Amato.
The tale of a young couple, Mike and Zarana, a woman consumed by paranoia and rabid nightmares after she finds herself relentlessly stalked by the enigmatic killer. They decide to cut themselves off from social media and remain in their glass-walled apartment overlooking their city. Anxiety, paranoia, violence, and murder follows.
You download the clip of the scene above on Sendspace HERE: You can also download the scene below on SendSpace HERE: Caution, both clips contain violence, especially clip 2.
Against A Wall: Daniel by Jack Saul Photography
'Out of the over 200 models I've s hot, only a very few were predominantly driven by expressions of sexuality, but that was definitely the case with Daniel'
The nude male form in art has always been bound with boundaries and limitations. Whether huge limits, like the risks artists and models took in the 30's, 40's and 50's to smaller limits, like a model's personal boundaries and comfortability, to the challenges of time, location and space.
So many of the photographers I feature don't have their own studio space. Some, weather permitting, shoot mostly outdoors. Some, use their own, or a model's personal living space. Others, like Jack Saul, are roaming visual reporters, using hotel rooms close to the model they're shooting.
Hotel rooms, whether you're shooting hot men in them or not, have limitations. Usually one large room and one small bathroom. Not always ideal in motivating the creative process. Given how many model's Jack has shot however, he's learned which rooms work the best, which rooms have enough light, enough space, and enough nooks and crannies to provide at least four or five different areas and backgrounds to utilize.
I've been featuring Jack's work for awhile now, and he knows how to get the most of the limitations of the space. Jack often asks his models to pose by the window, in a chair, in front of the mirror, and of course in the shower and on the bed. I've noticed that most models create their best poses, in the location they're most comfortable with. For many, this seems to be the bed. It makes sense, there's a natural connection to nudity and beds, and there are multitudes of poses and reposes easily created on a bed.
With this shoot with Daniel, most of my favorite shots featured the blonde and beautiful model chose to stand, and create endless elegant and artful configurations, while simply standing and posing in front of a large open wall. No furniture, no props, just a skilled and confident model with a plain background. Although in a hotel room, by just using the wall, the rest of the room disappeared, making the space mirror the experience of a studio shoot.
I loved that for this shoot, that Daniel and Jack moved beyond the limitations of the space, creating larger than life dramatic and incredibly erotic visuals. Sometimes the smallness of a space can be felt in a capture, but with this series, If you didn't know it was a hotel room, you might think they were shot in a large and open studio setting. This speaks to beauty Daniel created with facial expressions and poses, and intimate, yet expansive way Jack captured them. They more than stretched the boundaries of the space, and restrictions of being against a wall.
When Jack met and worked with Daniel, he knew he'd previously worked as a porn star in Eastern Europe. Daniel moved to London however, put that part of his life behind him, and explore a wider range of modeling and performance art. It wasn't fame Daniel was seeking, he already had a large on-line following. His goal was use his previous performance experiences in other creative outlets.
Although he didn't share explicitly with Jack his motives, Jack got the feeling that Daniel was looking to gain a bit of control back. Over his life, and how his body was both seen by others, and utilized in his work. Jack knew he'd no issue with posing nude, but his powerful expression of sensuality, especially when posing in front of a plain all, went far beyond Jack's expectations. You can check out more of Jack's work with Daniel on the NEXT PAGE HERE:
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