Ben Bale Photography

I’ve begun to get a little bored of uploading photos here, I have such a backlog at the moment. Add to that the fact that feedback seems to have dried up somewhat and I’m struggling to be bothered to upload more.

Anyway, I’m dragging myself up to post something, so here’s a few portraits from the studio. Remember, if you want to model, email me at neb8neb@gmail.com (my ben@benbale.co.uk email is playing up at the moment – sorry if you’ve tried to email me on it in the last couple of months, I wont have got it!)

I don’t know why this post has come out so blue, but go listen to 5000 Years by Recoil.

Well as a few people have talked about coming with us to Torture Garden next weekend, I thought it might be time for an update on here that’s a fetish related.

Of course it helps that I’ve just finished a photoshoot like the one below…

If everyone turns up at torture garden that has said they want to come, it should be an interesting evening. I’ve never been one to shy away from mixing work and personal lives – I don’t see the point of pretending to be someone else at work. Having said that, this will be the first time a number of people from the office have come down to TG with us…

Anyway, here’s a quick set of some random photos I’ve taken in the past that don’t really fit in at all with this post

Oh, and there’s far more from Priscilla coming soon, I just need to get round to uploading them!

The models I’ve worked with over the years will probably all tell you different things about working with me, but I imagine one thing that will get repeated a bit is the fact that I never really stick to the idea we started with.

That’s certainly the case with this photoshoot of Zoe. We started working on the idea of someone carrying their virginity around as if they were tied to their childhood before spinning off wildly into ‘Mindless Self Indulgence’ album titles (prizes for the first person the get the link).

So the first half of the photoshoot started a little bit like this…

Zoe was a really interesting model to work with, and certainly someone I’d like to work with again some day.

Anyway, the second half of the photoshoot went a little off topic:

Am I the only one that always thought it was odd that Dr. Frankenstein started off by making a 7ft tall guy? Personally, I’d have gone sex slave, then home help. Although taking another look at the orignal film, maybe he was just both

It’s finally starting to get warm again in London so we finally get some well needed sunshine! These two shots are from a photoshoot done in Southampton and are a little different to what I normally do – but it was fun to shoot!

The model is Syntheticdrkness. This is also probably as ad-friendly as I get!

Enjoy the summer people!

This was one of my favourite photoshoots ever. It was something different, something a bit dark and dirty and yet very sexy at the same time. It helps that Dannie is good fun to work with and a very professional model.

This was a university bathroom and we just turned up, started shooting and left – a couple of builders turned up half way through the nude photoshoot and were so embarrassed they ran straight out again.

I’ve never quite understood the whole toliet fetish thing, I mean I get the fact that it’s seeing something private – more private than sex for some people, but it’s not something I’m that faffed about personally!

I found this dummy/puppet at the side of a railroad near Southampton while doing a photoshoot. I couldn’t throw it away, but I’ve yet to fix it up, so it tends to randomly appear in different photoshoots over the years and currently sits in the loft of our flat in London. She/he doesn’t have a name yet and is bound to feature in future photoshoots, so any naming suggestions are welcome!

To do something different this afternoon, here’s a set of photos from where I grew up. A shit hole known as ‘The Medway Towns’.It’s always strange to go back somewhere after so long. For me, memories are more related to songs than photos, so from 1996, Susan’s House by The Eels.

The shot on the left below features the remains of a car – I watched it rust away completely over 2 years – sadly, I’m missing the rest of the photos.

Over the last few years, I’ve ended up doing a number of different fashion portraits. Below is a random selection. Some of these were taken just for fun, others for specific projects.

Models include: Hannah, Sophie, Agnes, Fern & Jen.

These were taken on a photoshoot near Canary Wharf in an empty flat. The model, FIona did really well as she was nude covered in these awful dead roses. I’d love to redo this shoot with a bottle of vodka, a Roxy Music album and a lot more roses to really bring out a darker more intimate side to the shoot. I suppose you could call this fashion photography- I’d buy the shoes from the top photo anyway!

This photoshoot was done in Surrey about a year ago – it’s one of my first attempts at fashion photography and I really enjoyed it. Having said that, I just don’t think fashion gives you enough scope sometimes – it’s all about the clothes!