Heather Vahn

Recently I got a giant hard drive that now has nearly every photo I have ever taken on it and I have recently been organizing all my photos so that I can easily get to any photo without having to search hard drive after hard drive. Now that everything is organized I have started going through all my photos day by day pulling the best images so that I have a folder of my greatest hits by year. I actually started this process a while back, but I stopped around the time I started working on my Instaxxx book. I had pulled highlights from 2008-2011 and the first half of 2016. Over the last couple of weeks I went through all of 2012 and then decided I should finish 2016 since I was already done… and that’s when I found it…

I found a found a folder from a November trip to LA with six unpublished shoots! I had a friend moving to LA from Ohio so I flew to Detroit and she picked me up and we drove across the country and when I got to LA I busted my ass shooting as many people on Polaroid for my Instaxxx book. When I returned to NYC I somehow lost the folder. I am not sure if it was because I was so busy working on my book or because I was distracted by the impending Trump administration or what, but I managed to forget about all these photos.

The folder has a bunch of good stuff in it and my plan is to update the site with three galleries this week starting with these photos of Heather Vahn. So keep checking back. I have actually already updated Girls of Driven By Boredom with Wednesday’s set so if you want to see those before anyone else, sign up for Girls of DBB!

So anyway, let’s get to Heather!

Heather Vahn and I shouldn’t be friends. We have pretty much nothing in common. She is fancy as fuck, is hugley committed to her health and looks and like glamorous photos with lots of Photoshop. Meanwhile I am a scumbag who hasn’t been to the gym since the ’90s and prefers my photography raw as hell. But for some reason Heather is one of my favorite people in the adult industry. When I got stranded at a porn convention she let me crash with her. When she got locked out of the place she was staying in NYC she crashed with me. She always hits me up when she’s in NYC and even celebrated my birthday with me this year and she is one of the first people I hit up whenever I am in LA or Vegas. She’s the greatest.

With all that said Heather and I had never done an actual photo shoot for some reason. I have taken her photo a bunch of times but this is the first time we did a proper thing. Once we did a shoot in a hotel room when I was trying out this $20 ring flash I bought for fun. I published it as part of a post where I dumped a bunch of random galleries, but I don’t really count that as a real shoot.

This shoot counts. We took these photos in this place in LA when Heather was mostly living in Vegas but was renting a room in LA so she had a place in town when she was working. It was this old Hollywood spot and the woman who owned it was a former actress and totally a babe for an older lady. She was super into us doing this naked photo shoot in her kitchen. After the shoot Heather and I filmed part of the Kickstarter video for my book!

Okay, this update is getting too long. Let’s recap: I found a bunch of photos, three naked galleries coming this week, Heather rules, buy my book, sign up for Girls of DBB (it has extra explicit photos of Heather too!) . The end.

Now click here to see the NSFW photos of Heather Vahn in Hollywood!

Heather Vahn

Heather Vahn

Heather Vahn

 

 

 

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Chloe Carter & Charlotte Sartre

I took these photos of Chloe Carter and Charlotte Sartre nearly a year ago. I have no idea why it took so long to post these, especially because Charlotte is one of my favorite people to take photos of, but here I am writing about photos I took last February.

I think I met Chloe Carter at some porn convention, but honestly I don’t remember. What I do remember is that I went straight to Chloe’s place from the airport when I landed in LA and Charlotte met us there. I feel like I hung out with them for hours in this really cool house where she was renting a room.

I was working on my Instaxxx book at the time and that was sort of my main focus so I shot Chloe by herself for that since I had a ton of shots of Charlotte already. At some point Charlotte jumped in and we did a quick shoot outside. The backyard was so great but the light kinda sucked and those girls are so pale that I wasn’t loving the stuff we were getting despite the location. We ended up going inside and shooting some stuff with my flash and it actually turned out pretty well. I could not tell you the last time I liked the flash stuff better than the natural light stuff but here we are.

I feel like I am just gonna stop writing this post now and just give you the photos but I should try to sell you on some stuff first, because I like being able to pay my rent. First of all, these girls are both in Instaxxx and you should buy it. Secondly, there’s a pretty solid handful of photos of these girls that are a bit too NC-17 to post on here that you can find only on Girls of Driven By Boredom. Sign up already.

Okay, it’s time to go look at photos, but thanks a bunch to Chloe and Charlotte for letting me take photos of them. Charlotte you know I love you and Chloe I hope to see you again one of these days. I think you were actually the first person I saw at AVN this year but I was in an Uber and we drove past you.

Now click here to see all the photos of Chloe Carter and Charlotte Sartre!

Chloe Carter & Charlotte Sartre

Chloe Carter & Charlotte Sartre

Chloe Carter & Charlotte Sartre

Chloe Carter & Charlotte Sartre

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Koukla Lookbook

A couple of months ago my friend Kirra hit me up about helping her friend’s vintage company Koukla shoot it’s first lookbook. I shot a handful of lookbooks when I first started doing photography professionally and they were always to help friends out and get shit for my portfolio and maybe get some free clothes out of it. Of all the ones I did only one ever saw the light of day. That sort of helped me realize that I should never be shooting anything “for my portfolio”.

But when Kirra hit me up I said yes to it pretty quickly. First of all Kirra is one of my favorite people to photograph. Legitimately every time we shoot I come away with a couple images that are some of my favorite images of all time. I probably have 10 photos of Kirra that are in my top 500 photos of all time. Secondly, as funny as it is, I legitimately need to work on my portfolio. I think the last time I made a portfolio was in 2009. All my work has come from word of mouth over the last decade but with every blog and alt weekly going out of business I suddenly need to find some new work. I just lost out on a pretty big fashion gig because despite the creative team at the brand wanting to use me they didn’t really have anything recent to show their boss that didn’t involve nudity. I need to get my shit together.

So, long story short is that Kirra and Joanna, the woman behind Koukla, and I walked around Brooklyn and we banged out nine looks in less than two hours without any lighting or assistant. That’s exactly my kinda shoot. I also got to play with this high speed color film (Fuji Natura 1600) that looked really great with the vintage look of the clothes. All the stuff in the look book is digital, but I got a couple of shots I really loved from the shoot.

So check out the Koukla lookbook here and buy some stuff from Joanna!

And now I am just gonna upload a massive unedited gallery of nearly everything we shot because I have no restraint.

Click here to see all the outtakes from the Koukla lookbook!

Koukla Lookbook

Koukla Lookbook

Koukla Lookbook

Koukla Lookbook

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2018 Girls Of AVN

Here’s my final AVN week update for a while. This tends to be a popular one: Girls of AVN.  When I first started covering the AVN Awards I was mostly there to find people to take photos of, but it quickly became my beat and I have covered it for dozens of different outlets. I still would shoot photos for my website while I was there but I was mostly working as a journalist. Then a few years ago, I pitched Hustler on the idea of doing a “Girls of AVN” article that would be sort of half behind the scenes and half just naked photos of porn stars. I did that for a couple of years, and then shot a similar thing for director Greg Lansky using his models. That year and last year I shot a behind the scenes thing for Vice and the sort of sexy BTS galleries continued.

This year things were a bit different. My main gig was for Playboy which meant I had a bunch of free time to shoot my own stuff. I figured I had to do another Girls of AVN gallery just for my own website, but I also was with my girlfriend who lives thousands of miles from me, so I wanted to spend a lot of time hanging out with her. I think I found a good balance and shot a handful of mini-sets specifically for this gallery and then I also did a couple full photo shoots as well.

Okay, so let’s go through everything!

The first shoot I did was with my friend Jade. She designs lingerie and set her room up as a trade show booth which was pretty cool, but it made the room really dark because she had covered the windows. I didn’t bring my flash on day one because my plan was just to get my credentials and do a quick pass of the convention, but then I ran into Jade and had to do something quick with her. So basically there wasn’t nearly enough light to shoot her, but we managed to get some shots and I shot a ton of 35mm stuff with flash. She also had some friends hanging out in the room with her so I shot her with Aubrey Cyles who goes by ScummmyKitten. Their friend Mary Wana decided to jump in after that and we got some fun stuff like my new press photo. The photos in this gallery are pretty mediocre because of the light, but these girls are babes and the 35mm stuff should be awesome.

The next day I did a shoot with Evelyn Claire. I met her on Twitter a few months ago and I was really excited to shoot with her. I am actually pretty happy with the results of this stuff and we actually spent some time shooting so this is going to be a full gallery coming soon. For now I just gave you about 10 photos from the shoot as a little preview of what’s to come.

Up next is a super quick shoot I did with Cassidy Klein. I met her at AVN a few years ago and I just think she’s a great human. We were killing time waiting for my girlfriend to meet up with us and we decided to shoot some photos on the parking deck of the Hard Rock. I’ve shot up there so many times and I have done just about everything I can on that roof, but when we got up there we found a white hearse! It seemed like we had no choice but to shoot in front of it. The funny thing is that right as we were finishing up a second hearse pulled up and started honking at us. It turned out the person driving the hearse was a friend of mine and they had sort of a Vegas hearse crew because of course they do.

Next up are some photos I am actually really excited about. I had a cam girl stop me on the trade show floor, she flipped over my badge and said “I knew I recognized you!” She told me her name was Raya but she goes by WhiskeyKitten online. I knew exactly who she was after that and I had been wanting to take her photo for ages. She introduced me to her roommate for the week, another cam girl named Goldie Fawn. We made plans to shoot that night and when I got to their AirBnB I was amazed by the space. I took some photos of them getting ready and then we shot some weird stuff on their bed. At some point they mentioned wanting to shoot on the balcony that overlooked the city. I didn’t think it would work without a light and they suddenly pulled out one of the lights they used for camming and it actually worked perfectly. I am gonna publish all that stuff as its own stand alone gallery so I decided to just post the random shots we took before we shot on the balcony here as a preview. I think you are gonna dig this stuff and I can’t wait to see the 35mm stuff we shot. I ended up shooting them for about two hours when I had originally meant to do the whole thing in about 20 minutes!

Lastly, I got a handful of shots of my friend Cadence Lux. One of these days I am going to do a full shoot with her, but this is the second mini-shoot we have done in Vegas. We had a whole shoot planned when she lived in Philly but then she had to go fall in love and move to Denver with her boyfriend, but I forgive him because he shot my Christmas card for me. Anyway, on the last day of the convention I got breakfast with Cadence and a few other girls and we both had some time to kill so we did a quick shoot in her hotel room across the street. Cadence was half asleep without makeup and just chilling in her room smoking. It’s kinda the exact type of thing I love to shoot. Real life. We didn’t shoot a ton but I think we got some nice shots.

Anyway, this gallery is not as massive as some of my Girls of AVN in years past but there’s still 70 photos in this gallery and there’s another dozen photos on Girls Of Driven By Boredom. I shot some more explicit stuff of Jade, Cadence and Evelyn so I figured I would give you guys that stuff over on the pay site. As always photos over there are in high resolution and usually uploaded a day earlier than the free images on here.

Now click here to see all the NSFW 2018 Girls of AVN photos!

Jade Creates

Evelyn Claire

Raya & Goldie Fawn

Cassidy Klein

Cadence Lux

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WoodRocket 5th Year Anniversary – 1.25.18

When I was in Vegas last week for the AVN Awards I had to stop by the WoodRocket 5th anniversary party. WoodRocket is the completely insane adult film company responsible for ridiculous porn parodies like Hamiltoe and Dick & Morty. The company is the brainchild of my friend Lee Roy Myers who once made a Simpsons porn parody where he painted all the actors yellow. Lee Roy and his team make so much weird, brilliant shit and have managed to make a living through sponsorships and selling merch without having to actually charge for their porn. The WoodRocket tagline is “The future of porn” and they are probably right.

When WoodRocket first launched I sat down with the WoodRocket crew and pitched a road trip video series. “Road Strip” helped me pay for my Route 66 road trip that led to my first book “Get Your Kicks”. If it weren’t for WoodRocket I never would have been able to do the trip. Years later I went on a West Coast road trip I shot a photo series that was sort of a continuation of Road Strip, just in still form. One of the girls I brought with me was April O’Neil who is a big part of the WoodRocket team, both starring and directing stuff for them.

Anyway, I love these guys (I had dinner with them instead of going to the actual AVN Awards) so I had to hit their 5 year anniversary party. They turned their studio into a museum to all their weird props and did some of their web series live including Topless Girls Reading books. Unfortunately I could only stay for about an hour so the gallery I posted is mostly just photos of the museum and a handful of party photos. Fortunately I did manage to get my friend Kasey Warner topless on a giant Nintendo console which was my only goal before I left. Oh, also my hero Lloyd Kafuman was there so that ruled.

Okay, this gallery is pretty small but it’s mildly NSFW and it’s a lot of fun so go check it out. And I got a real solid “Girls of AVN” gallery coming next so come back soon.

Click here to see all the photos from the Wood Rocket 5th Year Anniversary party in Las Vegas.

April O'Neil

Leeroy Myers

Vuko & FrVuko & Frosty The Snowjob osty The Snowjob

Pat & Lloyd Kaufman

Annika Albrite

 

 

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2018 Adult Entertainment Expo

The AVN Awards/ Adult Entertainment Expo weekend has become one of the yearly events I cover without fail, but this year was a little bit different. Playboy was my only client this year, instead of a bunch of smaller clients, so I didn’t really have to shoot the AEE or the AVN Awards. I also am dating someone in the industry so instead of staying out until 5am shooting weird shit in the middle of the night and trying to hang out with random porn girls I just watched the entire first season of the Wire with her instead. It was great.

That being said, I really half assed it on my coverage of the AEE (and didn’t even shoot the actual awards) because I was just shooting it for myself. The first day of the convention I mostly just went down to get my pass and say hi to everyone. Day two I spent a little more time shooting the awards, but I also did some actual photo shoots which was sort of my priority. Day three and four I was shooting my stuff for Playboy so I didn’t really get much AEE stuff at all except for when I happened on the Greg Lansky booth and he was throwing money in to the crowd.

Long story short, this gallery is under 100 images and most of the people I took photos of are friends of mine. Still, there’s some nice stuff in here and congrats to Tori Black on her 2018 Vixen Angel of the Year award which is what the throwing cash into the crowd was all about. Also aside from $2 in cash, I also caught a free subscription to Vixen so the first person to email avn@vixen.com with code KGXCOF wins a free Vixen account. Merry Christmas.

So yeah, small AEE gallery, but I also have a quick gallery coming from the Wood Rocket 5 year Anniversary party and I got a “Girls of AVN” gallery that will be up soon. Plus I did a few photo shoots I am pretty excited about so assuming this Playboy article runs soon, it was a pretty damn productive weekend even if I spent most of my time in bed. Be back soon with more AVN stuff!

Click here to see my photos from the 2018 Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.

2018 Female Performer Of The Year Angela White

Charity Crawford & Evelin Stone

Tori Black 2018 Vixen Angel

Jade Creates

Phoenix Marie

Gia Paige

Olive Glass & Riley Nixon

 

 

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One Year Later: 2017 AVN Awards In 35mm

Today I am headed to Vegas for another trip to the AVN Awards. I have covered the “Oscars of Porn” for the last decade and it’s always a solid mix of weirdness, fun and horror that people keep paying me to capture.

Every year I tend to have a bunch of clients but this year I oddly just have one. It’s one I am pretty excited about it and it’s paying for my trip, but it’s been weird to see local media just disappear. The Village Voice was sold and I don’t know anyone there anymore. The LA Weekly was sold and they fired their entire staff. Gothamist/DCist/LAist/Chicagoist/Etcist are all gone and I am sure there are a lot more to follow.

Last year one of my clients was Vice. I had shot the AVNs for them in 2016 and they assigned it to me the day I landed in Vegas last year. I was actually really happy with the stuff I shot for them, and they had every intention to publish it, but the AVNs took place the day of the Women’s March last year and with all the political stuff going on they never ran it. Amazingly I still got paid (I was not so lucky with a Gathering of the Juggalos client that never published my work because it happened in between the Republican and Democratic National Conventions), but the photos never saw the light of day… until now!

This huge gallery of 35mm photos from the 2017 AVN Awards (and the Adult Entertainment Expo and surrounding madness) was the large edit I sent to Vice. This would have been edited down to a dozen or so images but I figured I would give you guys everything.

It’s cool to look back and see how some of it seems like it just happened and other stuff seems like it was ages ago. The very first photo is of Blair Williams and her friend Belen. When my Instaxxx book came out I ended up staying at Blair’s house and actually photographed Belen at her place. It feels like I’ve known Blair for ages even though we have only hung out a few times.

I shot Keisha Grey on the ledge of her hotel room which was totally fucking insane and ended up as a full spread in Instaxxx. My friend Lucy Everleigh introduced me to a bunch of cam girls including Ana Mercury who is now a pretty good friend and I finally got to shoot Holly Beth who I ended up staying with once and she actually crashed with me in NYC. There’s even a photo of my girlfriend in here who I didn’t even know at the time and didn’t even notice until just now when I looked at the photos again!

Oh, and there’s also some stuff I shot when we filmed a segment for the actual AVN Awards broadcast on Showtime where Jillian Janson and I were interviewed. I uploaded it here if you want to watch it. 

It’s almost 100 photos and there are at least 15 photos in this gallery I don’t hate. Take a look for it and hopefully I will be back pretty soon with some more AVN madness from the 2018 AVN Awards… but first I am gonna go hang out with my lady in a Vegas hotel room until this insanity starts.

Click here to see all the 35mm photos I shot for Vice for the 2017 AVN Awards weekend last January.

Blair Williams & Belen

Moth

AVN Awards

Jillian Janson

Melissa Moore

Lana Rhoades

Keisha Grey

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Magdalene

You may recognize Magdalene from the road trip I went on in Florida a few months ago. I started the trip in Clearwater, FL and then Magda drove me to the insane Sausage Castle near Orlando and then from there I took a train down to Miami for some Miami Dolphins related madness. It was a pretty fun trip and I actually shot two full photo shoots of Magda on that trip… HOWEVER, this is not one of those shoots!

These photos are actually from a couple months BEFORE the trip. I met Magda at the Gathering of the Juggalos where we ended up collaborating on an article for Brooklyn Vegan.  Shortly after the Gathering I noticed after we met that she had a bunch of like sexy selfies on her Instagram so I mentioned if she ever wanted to take some photos I would be down. She told me that she had never done any professional photos, much less professional naked photos but was really into the idea.

She happened to be in NYC a few weeks later and she did her very first photo shoot. She killed it honestly and I really love a bunch these photos and I hate 90% of my photos.

I don’t really have much else to say about the shoot, but I will have more whenever I get around to publish the stuff we shot in Florida. The second shoot we did was in an actual movie theater!

Lastly, I should mention that these photos have been on Girls of Driven By Boredom for a few days now. They are twice the resolution on there and there are about 10 bonus images that you probably should see for yourself if you are a Magda fan.

Okay, now go look at the photos from Magdalene’s first ever nude photoshoot!

Magdalene

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Zoe AKA Weed Slut

Hey! I have had these photos forever and you need to look at them! I sort of in the back of my mind thought I had already put them up but it turns out I had not. I think you will like them. I like them and I hate everything!

This is Zoe aka Weed Slut. She is great and you should get to know her. I went over to her cool loft space where she lives with a bunch of cool artists and she designs underwear during the day and does stripper things at night which is pretty much the ideal jobs for model I met on Instagram. When she followed me I lurked her and I was like “oh, I need to photograph her” and then I did and now you get to look at the photos.

Basically I just took photos of her hanging out at home and smoking weed in her underwear which is pretty much a requirement for someone represented by the brand Weed Slut. She even gave me some Weed Slut rolling papers which are still sitting on my coffee table because I don’t actually smoke weed. Still they look cool on my coffee table.

Also this shoot was RIGHT before my Instaxxx book was sent to the printer. I had a couple holes missing in my layout and we actually shot two photos that ended up in the book based on the pre existing design. If you have the book see if you can find them and you can see how my brain works graphically.

Okay, I have filled enough space with text. Let’s get to the photos!

Click here to see a bunch of NSFW photos of Zoe aka Weed Slut.

Weed Slut

Weed Slut

Weed Slut 

Weed Slut

Weed Slut

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