2257 Lawsuit Update
September 4th, 2015
There has been a new development in the 2257 and 2257A lawsuit in which I am one of the named plaintiffs. In summary, we won a minor point at trial in federal court. We appealed that decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. We won more points in that appeal on our Fourth Amendment arguments, although we did not get everything we sought.
However, the court did not uphold our arguments on First Amendment issues raised by these laws. We requested a rehearing on those issues, and the remaining Fourth Amendment issues, before the panel of judges who heard our arguments for the appeals court. We cited two Supreme Court decisions issued since the panel had issued their opinion which we believe strengthen our arguments under both the First & Fourth Amendments. Such rehearings are rarely granted.
But, the panel has granted our petition for rehearing. We are asking that it reexamine our First Amendment claims and that it strike down the statutes on their face under the Fourth Amendment.
Where it stands now: it looks like the panel will issue a new opinion addressing our contentions that: (1) under Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Az., the statutes are content based and must be reviewed under strict scrutiny, which they can’t survive, and (2) under City of Los Angeles v. Patel, the statutes themselves (as opposed to the regulations) must be struck down under the Fourth Amendment.
It remains to be seen just how the court will proceed and, of course, what the outcome will be. But this is good news for the suit and for everyone who is affected by these onerous laws.
Of course, I’ll update as this moves forward when I have more news to report.
Show At The Kinsey Institute
September 2nd, 2015
This old photo of mine has been getting some attention recently. It was in a show at the Darkroom Gallery and a print of it is in The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction permanent collection. I’ve just learned that the Kinsey Institute is including their print in an upcoming show that will open on September 11. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/gallery.html (You’ll need to scroll down a bit to get to the part about the show)
More From Woodstock
August 31st, 2015
My friend, Dave Rudin wanted to return to the spot at the Woodstock School of Art where he did his first nude photo 20 years ago. The school had no problem with that, so we showed up with all 9 models and Dave photographed them at the same spot where it all started 20 years before.
Obviously we all took all of this very seriously, as you can clearly see:
So many models…
August 28th, 2015
Last week I was at Woodstock, NY, and Essex Junction, VT, with my friend, Dave Rudin, and a true bevy of beautiful figure models. You can see more about the reasons behind this adventure over on Dave’s blog. This was all his doing.
As you can see, we found some fine places in the Catskills to do some photos.
Here’s Dave with some of the models:
And here he is directing a shot with all 9 models:
I’ll have more photos and more info about what we were up to in my next post.
Vermont Show
August 27th, 2015
Last Friday I was at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont, for the artists’ reception for their juried show, “Reveal.” You can see the entire show at that link. One of the models, Kelsey Dylan, also came to the reception, along with several other friends.
We had a great time. Darkroom Gallery is my favorite place to show my work. They are great people and they treat photographers with respect and do all they can to make the whole process go smoothly.
Here are the three photos I had in this show:
Alaska Sunshine
August 4th, 2015
Gone Guy
August 3rd, 2015
A quick taste of things to come. I’ve been away. Way, way away.
Now I’m way behind. I’ll get some more new stuff posted soon.
Brooke
July 14th, 2015
Here’s Brooke Lynne hanging out on a cliff at Blackhand Gorge.
My Friend Jo
July 7th, 2015
This is a photo of my friend JoJo Suicide from my “docunude” project. I haven’t heard from her in a while and I’m a little worried about how she is doing. She is a wonderful, quiet, sweet person. Not what you’d expect when you see her tattoos and piercings. I hope she is ok.
Happy Fourth
July 3rd, 2015
A while back I decided to add a flag photo to my Eve series. I thought the temptations of patriotism had some relationship to the temptations in the Garden of Eden. Angie agreed to subject herself to the body painting and did a fine job being Flag Eve.
We also shot a few non-Eve photos while she was painted:
Editors note: WordPress seems to have updated to a new version and now I can’t get the photos to center. Sorry about that. I don’t like the look of the page when they aren’t centered, but nothing I can figure out to do will get them where they belong.
