Contact

If you would like to get in touch please use the contact form below. If you’d like to take part please read this first. And, note that I haven’t sold any images, if I do so any profits will be shared with the person in the image.

I’m pleased to have the opportunity to have so many people wanting to participate in my work. I’d really like to have more disabled people and people from different ethnic or other backgrounds.

For anyone taking part – everyone needs to be at least 20 and, as with buying booze, if you look as if you might be under 25 I’ll want to see proof.

I will want to spend a bit of time getting to know you (either by email, messenger or similar) to discuss why you are interested, to talk about your preferences, to double check you understand what is expected and to ensure that consent is fully informed. No images will be used until they have been agreed with you – I will ask you confirm that you are okay with the images after they are taken and when they are ready to be used. Once published, I will remove them if asked to do so.

Human Nests – any profits from selling prints will largely be donated to the Brighton Housing Trust with up to 20% for the model.

I’m very interested to work with new people and also in new locations – urban/rural and within a couple of hours travel from Brighton. The images are not explicit (bums and some breasts) and the subjects are not identified although I thank them with their first names. I’m happy for subjects to use their own images freely with credit to me and to the project. Some of the images will be used on social media to promote the project – subjects need not be named.

You will need to be okay with being naked and accept that being photographed outside you may well be seen by others – I prefer quiet locations/times of day but people are often about and while understandably curious, so far none have been a problem. You’ll need to handle several periods of 5 mins or so naked and possibly not that comfortable as the locations may be cold/damp, on uncomfortable ground and so on.

The images are of people as they are naked – tattoos, body hair, wrinkles, scars, fat bits are great. All body types are wanted, all of our bodies are amazing.

Everyone who’s taken part has said it’s felt liberating and has been fun – if a bit cold for some.

Nipple Stars – if you would like to be cast (which will need to be in Brighton or nearby) the process is about 10 minutes – you’ll obviously need to be okay with being topless. The expectations are that everyone is photographed during the process with the molds in place (nipples not shown). You’ll be photographed again when your stars are ready using them to censor your nipples – if you want to be shown with your nipples showing that’s great (the project is about the stupidity of nipple censorship) but its not a requirement.

In return for taking part everyone is given a set of their casts – I retain a set as I’m hoping to exhibit them one day.

I’m happy to include anyone who has, or has had, nipples whether or not they have breasts. I have included some people who identify as male however, as the issues associated with restrictions about nipples apply to nipples on breasts, or on the bodies of people who identify as women, I prefer to include them. I’d really like more people who are 50+, some more people who are disabled, more people who are Black or who have darker skins and anyone who’d just find the whole business quite amusing.

Ages

Please read the Words section and several of the participant’s stories before you apply. Their stories are every bit as important to the project as the images – they don’t need to be fancy or long. But it’s very much not intended to be mainly a series of naked images.

You’ll need to travel to Brighton or be not too far from here if I come out to you. As you can see from those already published, some will be fully naked and some dressed. Ideally, your face will be shown, at least in the dressed images.

I prefer to create images that are pretty true to how you are, so I won’t be hiding fat, or bones, wrinkles or scars. However, I know that there are some images that we simply don’t like – you have a veto.

I’m not interested in having images that are intentionally sexual – people with penises have penises, that’s great – I don’t want dick-pics or what ever a vulva version might be.

Please don’t take it too seriously – love and all of the bees, Phil