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Sonrya as Marilyn Monroe

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Sonrya Sanjaraya

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…….I created this self-portrait as Marilyn, and a question to go with it, when i was 18 years old. I started modeling when I was 3 years of age – and all around the world. I studied the fine arts at Bordeaux Beaux – Arts school in France. At that time, I was already asking myself: how could a woman who is also a star (Marilyn Monroe), beloved for her beauty, sex appeal and youth, accept the aging process and to see the years going by?

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How could she continue and find a balance between all the love given by everyone to her image: and the lack of real love she could have experienced in her actual life? Being an idol and to be so much loved – is also like being all alone, and when you don’t enjoy loneliness how could she have managed it everyday without falling…?

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About The Author: To learn more about Sonrya Sanjaraya, go to the search bar at the top of the page: enter name and click the green icon.

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Posted on March 17, 2012 – Copyright 2012

Janeman

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Sonrya Sanjaraya

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……….This project is about the place of the modern woman in our occidental society. I live in France, specifically the town of Hoosegort – known for pro surfing. The female character in the drawing represents one of the many things a woman can be: a lover of course – but she also represents motherhood, a quiet relaxing friend, and much more. She can also be the jewel that men adore, exhibit and also treasure for themselves.

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Self-Portrait - 2012

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Posted on January 20, 2012 – Copyright 2012

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Lingerie: Victoria's Secret

Posted on January 1, 2012

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……….Elizabeth currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.

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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

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Self-Portrait 2011

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Tony Ward

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……….I would like to thank all of the contributors, friends and colleagues who have supported TWS over the course of an extraordinary year of growth. You have made this a very special year for the audience that follows TWS. Your contributions have been most inspiring. I look forward to the coming year with great enthusiasm, anticipation, and the expectation that our audience will continue to grow and expand – well in to the new year and years to come.

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I would like to especially thank my colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania for providing an exceptional venue to share information, and most importantly, the students who have taught me the joy and importance of teaching. Happy New Year!

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Posted on November 20, 2011 by Kaitlin Levesque

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I really don’t enjoy traditional portraits, at least not taking them. I think they can be beautiful and require skill, but they are not real to me; they do not breathe and live in the same way that other photographs can. It is for this reason that I favor candid portraiture. Now it’s difficult to create candid self portraits because you have to take on the roll of artist and subject but I did my best to take the assignment in that direction. I felt the composition of varied shots tells so much more about me than a traditional portrait ever could.

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One key element of all of these photographs is that my face is never completely visible to the camera. This is meant to remove the area which tends to draw the most attention from viewers and force them to explore other, sometimes overlooked, aspects of the self-portrait. I’ve used only exterior shots, with divided frames, and extreme contrast to give a unified, crisper than life, almost surreal feel to each photograph and the collection as a whole.

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I chose the location for each shot carefully; they are all places which fascinate me, the previous discussed elements of the photographs are used to fascinate views in the way I, as the subject matter, am; in other words, to draw them into my world. When I first started working with film photography I was greatly influenced by three things: the clean, traditional full framing of a photograph, old, candid snapshots, and Henri Cartier-Bresson and his “decisive moment”. I hope these influences are as prevalent in my work to the viewers as they are to me.

About The Author: Kaitlin Levesque is a sophomore enrolled in the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2014 – Copyright 2011

A.H. Scott

Posted on November 17, 2011 by A.H. Scott

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………..I couldn’t resist sending in this poem. It’s not sexy, but it’s definitely political. I was inspired to write it after the ouster of the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park in New York City. Something that isn’t broadly mentioned in the media, is the fact that Diana Taylor, who is on the board of directors for the company that owns Zuccotti Park (Brookfield Properties), is the girlfriend of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It got me to thinking about the power of connections and associations. Brookfield Properties were the ones who sent a letter to the Mayor’s office to get the protesters evicted in a post-Midnight raid. Now, coincidence is something I believe in. Yet, this action by the NYPD didn’t just come about out of thin air.

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So, this poem is titled, “PILLOW TALK SCREWS THE 99%”. I think the title explains it all. The games the rich and influential play are like puppet-masters to the marionettes of the masses.

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Lolly was a lobbyist who did her job well
Her bank account always filled to a swell
Loopholes written by others she slid through with ease
To all of her clients, she did what she had to do to please
Paul was a politician with a Pepsodent smile
He relished his position of snorting at the public well
No one would say he was a pig
Yet, his coffers of donations continued to get big
Bart was a banker who knew all the right palms to grease
This even brought lovely Lolly to her knees
Bedfellows and bed-gals do the Potomac Mambo between the sheets and lines of morality
Those who have access to the three sides of this twisted triangle, bare a leg and a wad of green
Lolly, Paul and Bart lived for an ultimate turn of the trick
For the ones who they adored screwing the most were
Jane Q. Citizen & John Q. Public
Pillow talk screws the 99%, again and again…..

About The Author: Draped in freedom’s spirit, A.H. Scott is a sizzling scribe of unveiling sensuality. Residing in New York City, this writer is armed with pouting pen of passion and pulsating digits pounding against keyboard. Between this lady’s manicured fingers, a snaggy stylus lacerates parchment and masticates digits against a misting keyboard towards a just climax literary longing. She’s a new voice and vision of fiction. who has been writing short stories and poetry ever since childhood.