It’s upon us, Seattle. The Fifth Annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival comes to town March 24th to the 26th. SEAF attracts artists from all over the world. Last year’s show wonderful. This year should be better. As I understand it, the jury is tougher and the organizers are looking to display fewer images (especially photography). This should make it easier for the better pieces to find space without being cluttered by marginal presentations.
I made sure to get a festival ticket for the full three day event. That means I need to pull together a costume for the ball opening night. There will be several events during the course of the weekend, but I am most looking forward to a workshop. Charles Gatewood, pervy photographer extraordinaire, will be teaching practicing and would be pervs to take pictures of latex and leather clad models. I am totally jazzed.
To prepare, I emailed Gatewood to find out what was going to be needed for the workshop. His one line reply was “Bring your camera, lights, model release forms, and read my book, Photography for Perverts.” Done. Done, Done, And done a while back. Shit! I need to buy more CF cards for my camera. Time to make a To Do list. That date is coming quick. Guess what new gallery will be up after next weekend.