Kandace is a Burning Angel girl who strangely enough I met on Suicide Girls. I went on SG looking for some girls to take photos of months ago when I was stuck in DC for a week. She didn’t get back in time, but we kept in touch and finally when I was in town for my grandmother 91st birthday we met up. Kandace does not have the figure or look one might associate with a model, however it was pretty much immediately obvious that she was the exact type of girl I am interested in photographing when she agreed to take naked photos in a shopping mall. She was pretty rad and pretty much everything she does makes you think about sex.  She also has these signs in her house.  Hilarious.

Anyway, the mall is an underground shopping center called Crystal City which is just a few miles from the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. At some point it was a very popular mall until the Pentagon City Mall was built just a few blocks away. I lived probably 3 miles from it my entire life and had no idea it even existed until I was driving around one night looking for the entrance to a seedy 50’s style motel off the side of Route 1. My friend Andy and I had the idea of getting a hold of a tank of Nitrous Oxide ant throwing N20 hotel party there. None of this actually happened but we did stumble onto this mall at 2 AM one night. The Mall itself was completely empty at night and until I shot with Kandace I had never seen so much as a security guard there. Being in it was like being in Dawn Of The Dead or something. You could walk around and see the empty food court and things and the Muzak is playing and everything is extremely creepy and everything sort of goes in a circle and you never really know where you are. There are also several passage ways that lead to other office buildings in the area that are strangely similar to the layout of a level from Doom. Many nights of my high school summer vacations were spent watching my friends skateboard and generally cause havoc in the mall.

Kandace and I roamed all over the mall and the passageways and exits of the mall looking for places to shoot. We did actually see several couples who were using the mall as a late night date experience. We even saw a security guard who walked slowly towards us after a few minutes of my flash going off, but he really never got near us as we moved around the mall to new places. He did not seem to want to stop us, just doing due diligence checking things out. I was not surprised to see a security guard there as the last time I visited this mall my friends and I dumped roughly 12 full bottles of laundry detergent into the water park that was across the street. The last several images from the set of Kandace are taken in front of the water park. Where she is standing at one time was covered in 4-5 feet of foam thanks to our detergent terrorism. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. A friend of mine went back several weeks after our attack to try it again and was immediately met by security. So I have to say, maybe I had some help in securing Crystal City in this post 911 world. God bless me.

The one regret I have of these photos is not including enough background in the shots. I was trying to take the photos as quickly as possible so we would not get arrested, and I didn’t concentrate on really showing the fact that we are in a mall. Some of them are better than others.

Anyway, enjoy the shots. NSFW of course.

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