Who is maisie cousins

That way I feel more comfortable shooting them. You often focus on the female body, quite viscerally What do you seek to expose? The realities of having a body, I suppose. Your work is very concerned with texture. What are some of the more unusual materials you've found yourself using?

I often use a lot of things that are lying around in the flat like make up, fruit, bath products, snails. Sometimes it can be really smelly — for instance right now my kitchen table is probably a huge health hazard. What's it like working as a female photographer in ? I want mixed group shows and I want the same stuff the boys get. Do you find that you have to balance commercial work with your own pursuits as an artist? I never really say yes to jobs that don't match me, it really helps having my agent Lydia.

I actually find it really hard to take pictures of things that I don't care about. Her work might suggest some uncomfortable truths about our bodies and their processes, but she is all about making the shoot experience easy.

These days her personal work is less about portraits and more about bodies in an oblique sense. I think rationing things is healthy, but I think minimalism is the devil!

I like the contrast between the medium of photography which I find very clinical to the festering and messy subjects I use. Is there anything that truly disgusts her? About Shop Advertising Contact.

Fashion Beauty. Literature Mags. Travel Hotspots. Events Filmin by Metal. Art Photography. Design Activism. Film Music. Share 1. Maisie Cousins. Tell me a bit about your artistic background. When did you start creating images for your blog? Your images have been described as vibrant, erotic and psychedelic. What feelings are you hoping to evoke in the viewer? Your work is provocative and often graphic, have you ever faced any criticism regarding the content of your images?

In a world where nearly every public image of a woman has been re-touched in some form or another, it is both refreshing and striking to see the female form in a more natural state.