Street
Voice supports all forms of alternative modelling as long as
it don´t involve cruelty to animals etc. What consenting
people want to do is their choice and no one has the right to
be dismissive. The models I´ve featured so
far
have been American but this morning I bumped into Princess
Dmanda from Scotland. Still fairly new to this scene but what
I´ve seen so far has impressed so here´s what she had to say:
Punk Globe: Can you introduce yourself to our readers?
I´m Princess Dmanda, the Empress of Dark Perversion and all
round sick bitch, and Scottish lassie! I love blood and the
sexual side of horror. I like to be Worshipped - mwhawahahha!
Punk Globe: What inspired you to take up alternative
modelling in the first place?
I´m an exhibtionist! I love getting my photograph taken and
expressing my intense sexuality. I also love dressing up and
looking like a Goddess, dammit what girl doesn´t?! I also felt
that erotic horror photography was getting a bit stagnent and
focusing too much on vampires and shying away from the harder
stuff such as murder shoots. I wanted to change that.
Punk Globe: At what age did you start to pose naked?
20 years old, the age I started modelling at. I want to make
something clear to any girls who want to get into Fetish
modelling - if you are 17, wait until your 18. It is ILLEGAL
to do any kind of sexual or nude modelling until your 18.
Trust me, just wait! And
if you are 18 it pays to have some form of ID with you - some
photographers in particular those doing hard fetish shoots
won´t work with you if have no ID.
Punk Globe: I notice you wont work with fur or snake
skin so would I be presuming correct that you´re vegetarian?
Actually no. Let me explain myself! I´ve been into Shamanism
for a very long time (since I was 15) I understand that in
nature animals eat each other as a means of survivel, in order
for life to go on there must be death. Humanity has been a
hunter from the begining, it´s natural for us to be meat
eaters, nevertheless that´s no excuse for cruelty. I eat
organic meat and eggs, factory farms are horrible places.
I´d have to disagree there -
Meat Eating is not natural.
As for the fur and snake skin question, it takes up to 40 mink
to make up a fur coat - and how many people can actually
afford one? Also the methods used to kill mink are barbaric,
as for snake skin, put it this way. Reptile skin is not as
elastic as mammlian skin, in order for reptile leather to be
supple, the animal has to be skinned alive. Thats why I will
not wear fur or reptile leather.
Punk Globe: The UK seems to be rather prudish to your
line of work so do you get much grief because of your chosen
career?
Most
people seem to be ok with it, others seem to think I´m being
exploited. Some people want to save my soul!It´s just basic
fear of female sexuality and the depths it can reach, the
British Goverment doesn´t seem to understand that women who
model in the porn industry or fetish scene are there because
they want to be there, the very idea of women actually feeling
sexual doesn´t sit well with them. I hate how women are always
made to feel like we are the victims of men! Bullshit! Stand
up for yourselves girls! The new crackdown on violent
pornography is going to hit me hard me thinks!But I´ll still
keep rolling around in blood, regardless of what they think!
Punk Globe: So what are your hopes and expectations in
2006?
Well I´m hoping to travel a bit more! I´d like to go to Norway
and watch wild orcas at some point, My boyfriend and I may
also be going to Amsterdam as well. I hope to get even further
into Alternative modelling and hopefully break into
performance and acting. I want to be a Scream Queen! I also
want my own paysite one day!
Punk Globe: You also listen to a lot of alternative
music so what are your fave bands at the moment?
Nightwish, Iced Earth and Mercyful Fate are on a steady spin
on my cd player at the moment.
Punk Globe: For your career would it not be easier for
you to move to somewhere like London?
Yes, it probably would but London isn´t a place I would want
to live in constantly. I´d be content just to travel there for
jobs.
Punk Globe: Outside modelling what are your interests?
I´m also a Decorative Glass artist in training! I also write
and paint. I´m also a compentant snake handler and whale
watcher and do a bit of bird watching as well. Most weekends
you´ll find me in the Solid Rock cafe in Glasgow or at some
Underground Metal gig, a little bit merry! So if your ever in
Glasgow don´t be afraid to come up and say hello, I don´t bite
that hard!
Punk Globe: Anything you´d like to add?
Check out my website. And...keep it real, keep it sick as
fuck!
Thanks for Princess Dmanda for taking time out to do
this interview. Please do check her work out as there´s much
more to come!
