Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Three Ways of Looking at Porn Valley




I took these photographs over, oh, I don't remember anymore, but likely over a period of a few years in Porn Valley. Lately, I've been posting some of my photos on Flickr, and it wasn't until recently while doing that that I saw the pattern you see here. What does it mean? I have no idea. Porn, I suppose, is as much about seeing as it is the favorite of the scopophiliac. As I've said here before, I am no photographer, and why I framed these shots this way, I can't say was conscious. The first shot was of Summer, who stuttered, in a Malibu hotel room that sat on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The second shot features Weed, who I liked a lot, playing a zombie, although he was originally a gangbanger from Compton (Blood or Crip I can't recall). The last shot features two women in prison, and what that says about the porn industry... Well, I'll have to leave that to your imagination.