BERNADINISM

A series of photos inspired by the children’s film, The Red Balloon. More…

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I have 9 pictures in the Taschen, Big Book of Pussy just published. Six of them are of the international pussy performer, Mouse. I have photographed her for over a decade after first seeing her at the semi-finals of the Erotic Awards, Stripper of the Year competition. She did not win that year but won it the same year I won the Erotic Photographer of the Year in 2002 for my book, Bernadinism; How to Dominate Men and Subjugate women, just beating  Nobuyoshi Araki. She won a holiday for two to Hedonism in Jamaica, while all I got was a gilded wooden trophy shaped like a phallus with wings. The last time a photographed her was at the beginning of the year for the big article about her in the book.

I have documented her act both on stage, at her place and in my flat, where she often made a mess. We even once did a Sex TV documentary together. When I bought a video camera to document my work, I soon thought of her and she came around to my flat and promptly made a mess again, this time with yogurt. But before the yogurt I filmed her reverse strip, where she started off naked then pulled a nightie out of her snatch and put it on. Then in my corridor, she stuck giant sparklers up her vagina and anus and waggled them about. I could only shoot that once because of all the dense smoke.

We then shot her ping pong ball act. If you have not yet seen it here it is.

This photo was first published in my 2001 book, Bernadinism; How to Dominate Men and Subjugate women (Edition Stemmle)

Here are a couple more snaps not of Mouse that made it into the book. Another two b+w’s can be seen in the preview of the book on the Taschen website.

The Philosopher Illumined by Candlelight

Zex

Model Zex

What I did yesterday afternoon.

I don’t have an angle finder so I had to get so close to the ground that I could not see through the lens properly. To my surprise my neck was hurting the next day. Initially I was just concentrated on the foot but she had big perky breasts so I included one of them.

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I have several photographs in Taschen’s, The Big Book of Pussy out next month. Some of them illustrate an interview with Mouse whom I have photographed on and off for the last 13 yrs.

The first time I saw Mouse, she was on stage at the semi-finals of the Sex Maniacs Ball stripper of the year contest. She was on stage pouring strawberry yogurt all over herself and pulling a string of strawberries out of her vagina. She later admitted that the seeds were difficult to get out of a minge. As a side note, strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside (pass it on). Since I like photographing the unusual, this was ready made for me and I asked her to do some pictures. At our first session she said she could fire ping pong balls with her fanny so we shot that at out next session. We photographed other of her acts over time including her yogurt act, diner act, featuring a string of chipolatas, her sparkler act, reverse strip and several others.

Me and Mouse on Sex Tv documentary

Here are some of the pictures that did not make it into the book.

Shot during filming for a Sex Tv documentary about my work