meet a very exotic looking woman, HIROKO MIMA with the theme look for next year MUJ image,
....hollywood 50’s!!!







do you think she is beautiful??....please comment!!

I was looking for a model with a soft look to grace the cover of PLAYER magazine,...MONIKA was just perfect,...just beautiful and gracious....these photographs reflects MONIKA personality very well...she is as sweet as these photographs!!!...something MONALISA about these photos,...don’t you think so???

she is from brazil,...definitly an exotic looking woman,...another COVER GIRL of the month for PLAYER magazine!!

MAYA is from Canada,...she plays billiard very well,...she also plays winning-eleven,...she loves beer and she can imitate James Brown better than Eddie Morphy does!!
finally I had a chance to do an essay with her for PLAYER magazine,...I wanted to do something based on a MEXICAN look,...very latin...we shot inside a mexican restaurant and the musicians were very happy to be in the pictures!!!....everyone singing and dancing during the shooting....TEQUILA!!!!

the very first time I photographed SADA MAYUMI was for VIVI magazine,...we have worked together quite a few times,...she is very easy to work with...she moves very well and she is very creative in front of the camera,
these pictures were taken for WARP magazine on an editorial about japanese sexy models!!

something about women dressed in red,....this is another photo essay I did for PLAYER magazine,...CONSTANTINE from brazil was the cover girl of the month!...I think she looks a bit like Giselle Bunchen...don’t you think so??

ANNA is swedish,...and she has a baby...and her baby was born in the same day as me!!!
I like the styling here,...IKEDA san (stylist) managed to get some really exotic clothes,...and for the second time ANNA was the COVER GIRL of the month for PLAYER magazine!

not long ago I did a test shooting with TINA from SATORU-JAPAN,...she is half english half japanese,...very exotic looking girl,..I thought it would be nice to shoot her in some kind of exotic location,...wearing exotic clothes and accessories!!...this is the result we got for PLAYER magazine COVER GIRL of the month!

this is another photo essay I did for PLAYER magazine,...every month they have a different girl to illustrate the cover,...this time KAORI (IARA models) was the COVER GIRL of the month,...very sexy and beautiful!

I had nothing to do on one sunday afternoon,...called my friends todd and renata for a quick photo seccion,...after a nice and rough pillow fight to break the ice (yeah!,...we smashed bedroom pillows into each other face!!) we managed to get together a bunch of happy couple looking pictures!!

december 2007 my friend Anna came to see me,....she wanted to have her pregnant picture taken.

I asked her when she was supposed to give birth,....she said probably beginning of february 2008,...year of the rat,...so her kid was born right on the same day as me...february 10th!!...what a great coincidence!!...I hope when her kid grow up she can tell him that the guy who took her picture was born in the same day!!
there is definitly something about pregnant women,....they glow!!!....how to make Anna glow in a photograph??....
...my answer is in the photograph below!

by the way,...Anna used to be a model,..here are some of the pictures I took of her when she used to model