The AVN Awards/ Adult Entertainment Expo weekend has become one of the yearly events I cover without fail, but this year was a little bit different. Playboy was my only client this year, instead of a bunch of smaller clients, so I didn’t really have to shoot the AEE or the AVN Awards. I also am dating someone in the industry so instead of staying out until 5am shooting weird shit in the middle of the night and trying to hang out with random porn girls I just watched the entire first season of the Wire with her instead. It was great.

That being said, I really half assed it on my coverage of the AEE (and didn’t even shoot the actual awards) because I was just shooting it for myself. The first day of the convention I mostly just went down to get my pass and say hi to everyone. Day two I spent a little more time shooting the awards, but I also did some actual photo shoots which was sort of my priority. Day three and four I was shooting my stuff for Playboy so I didn’t really get much AEE stuff at all except for when I happened on the Greg Lansky booth and he was throwing money in to the crowd.

Long story short, this gallery is under 100 images and most of the people I took photos of are friends of mine. Still, there’s some nice stuff in here and congrats to Tori Black on her 2018 Vixen Angel of the Year award which is what the throwing cash into the crowd was all about. Also aside from $2 in cash, I also caught a free subscription to Vixen so the first person to email avn@vixen.com with code KGXCOF wins a free Vixen account. Merry Christmas.

So yeah, small AEE gallery, but I also have a quick gallery coming from the Wood Rocket 5 year Anniversary party and I got a “Girls of AVN” gallery that will be up soon. Plus I did a few photo shoots I am pretty excited about so assuming this Playboy article runs soon, it was a pretty damn productive weekend even if I spent most of my time in bed. Be back soon with more AVN stuff!

Click here to see my photos from the 2018 Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.

Today I am headed to Vegas for another trip to the AVN Awards. I have covered the “Oscars of Porn” for the last decade and it’s always a solid mix of weirdness, fun and horror that people keep paying me to capture.

Every year I tend to have a bunch of clients but this year I oddly just have one. It’s one I am pretty excited about it and it’s paying for my trip, but it’s been weird to see local media just disappear. The Village Voice was sold and I don’t know anyone there anymore. The LA Weekly was sold and they fired their entire staff. Gothamist/DCist/LAist/Chicagoist/Etcist are all gone and I am sure there are a lot more to follow.

Last year one of my clients was Vice. I had shot the AVNs for them in 2016 and they assigned it to me the day I landed in Vegas last year. I was actually really happy with the stuff I shot for them, and they had every intention to publish it, but the AVNs took place the day of the Women’s March last year and with all the political stuff going on they never ran it. Amazingly I still got paid (I was not so lucky with a Gathering of the Juggalos client that never published my work because it happened in between the Republican and Democratic National Conventions), but the photos never saw the light of day… until now!

This huge gallery of 35mm photos from the 2017 AVN Awards (and the Adult Entertainment Expo and surrounding madness) was the large edit I sent to Vice. This would have been edited down to a dozen or so images but I figured I would give you guys everything.

It’s cool to look back and see how some of it seems like it just happened and other stuff seems like it was ages ago. The very first photo is of Blair Williams and her friend Belen. When my Instaxxx book came out I ended up staying at Blair’s house and actually photographed Belen at her place. It feels like I’ve known Blair for ages even though we have only hung out a few times.

I shot Keisha Grey on the ledge of her hotel room which was totally fucking insane and ended up as a full spread in Instaxxx. My friend Lucy Everleigh introduced me to a bunch of cam girls including Ana Mercury who is now a pretty good friend and I finally got to shoot Holly Beth who I ended up staying with once and she actually crashed with me in NYC. There’s even a photo of my girlfriend in here who I didn’t even know at the time and didn’t even notice until just now when I looked at the photos again!

Oh, and there’s also some stuff I shot when we filmed a segment for the actual AVN Awards broadcast on Showtime where Jillian Janson and I were interviewed. I uploaded it here if you want to watch it. 

It’s almost 100 photos and there are at least 15 photos in this gallery I don’t hate. Take a look for it and hopefully I will be back pretty soon with some more AVN madness from the 2018 AVN Awards… but first I am gonna go hang out with my lady in a Vegas hotel room until this insanity starts.

Click here to see all the 35mm photos I shot for Vice for the 2017 AVN Awards weekend last January.

You may recognize Magdalene from the road trip I went on in Florida a few months ago. I started the trip in Clearwater, FL and then Magda drove me to the insane Sausage Castle near Orlando and then from there I took a train down to Miami for some Miami Dolphins related madness. It was a pretty fun trip and I actually shot two full photo shoots of Magda on that trip… HOWEVER, this is not one of those shoots!

These photos are actually from a couple months BEFORE the trip. I met Magda at the Gathering of the Juggalos where we ended up collaborating on an article for Brooklyn Vegan.  Shortly after the Gathering I noticed after we met that she had a bunch of like sexy selfies on her Instagram so I mentioned if she ever wanted to take some photos I would be down. She told me that she had never done any professional photos, much less professional naked photos but was really into the idea.

She happened to be in NYC a few weeks later and she did her very first photo shoot. She killed it honestly and I really love a bunch these photos and I hate 90% of my photos.

I don’t really have much else to say about the shoot, but I will have more whenever I get around to publish the stuff we shot in Florida. The second shoot we did was in an actual movie theater!

Lastly, I should mention that these photos have been on Girls of Driven By Boredom for a few days now. They are twice the resolution on there and there are about 10 bonus images that you probably should see for yourself if you are a Magda fan.

Okay, now go look at the photos from Magdalene’s first ever nude photoshoot!

Hey! I have had these photos forever and you need to look at them! I sort of in the back of my mind thought I had already put them up but it turns out I had not. I think you will like them. I like them and I hate everything!

This is Zoe aka Weed Slut. She is great and you should get to know her. I went over to her cool loft space where she lives with a bunch of cool artists and she designs underwear during the day and does stripper things at night which is pretty much the ideal jobs for model I met on Instagram. When she followed me I lurked her and I was like “oh, I need to photograph her” and then I did and now you get to look at the photos.

Basically I just took photos of her hanging out at home and smoking weed in her underwear which is pretty much a requirement for someone represented by the brand Weed Slut. She even gave me some Weed Slut rolling papers which are still sitting on my coffee table because I don’t actually smoke weed. Still they look cool on my coffee table.

Also this shoot was RIGHT before my Instaxxx book was sent to the printer. I had a couple holes missing in my layout and we actually shot two photos that ended up in the book based on the pre existing design. If you have the book see if you can find them and you can see how my brain works graphically.

Okay, I have filled enough space with text. Let’s get to the photos!

Click here to see a bunch of NSFW photos of Zoe aka Weed Slut.

Since we are nearing the end of 2017 I decided to take a look back on all the stuff I shot this year and I made a list of all the galleries I haven’t published yet. I actually have about a dozen full shoots that I haven’t published as well as a bunch of random outtakes and shots that don’t really merit their own gallery. I am gonna shove those all into one post around the 1st of the year like I did last year, but in the meantime let me hit you with a gallery I particularly enjoyed.

Way back in February I was in LA for the LA Art Book Fair and on my last night in town I booked a hotel because I had been crashing with friends all week and I felt they needed a break and I figured it would be a good location. I had a couple people left on my list of people I wanted to shoot but I actually couldn’t find anyone to take photos of that night. Fortunately for me, Anna de Ville was able to come by the next morning before I went to the airport.

I don’t actually remember how I met Anna but I remember thinking she was super photogenic for a long time. I was glad to get to take her photo and I had a specific shot in mind for my Instaxxx book. My room was right next to the hot tub and I wanted to shoot her in the tub topless while I was still in my room. Apparently one of the hotel employees caught her flashing me but we got the shot and it’s in my book. You should buy it.

I didn’t shoot that photo digitally so it’s not part of this gallery but we did shoot some photos of her in the bathtub which is always fun and Anna is real pretty so you are probably gonna enjoy the photos.

Also, I should point out that there are a handful of more explicit shots that I saved for the Girls of Driven By Boredom site. Usually I just shoot that stuff because it’s a reason to get people to sign up for Girls of DBB but I actually think they are pretty good photos for a change so take that for whatever it’s worth.

I am headed to DC tomorrow for Christmas and then I am headed to Detroit to visit my girlfriend so I might not update again until 2017 but I might come up with some reason to post on Christmas or something. Who knows? Just go look at the pictures of Anna and happy holidays or whatever phrase would trigger Sean Hannity the most.

Click here to see all the NSFW photos of Anna de Ville in a motel room in LA. 

My friend Ana introduced me to her friend Franki over the summer and we talked about doing a photo shoot. She is a dominatrix and needed some new photos for work and I thought she was super cool looking so I wanted to take her photo a bunch. The idea was that we would shoot some domme stuff for her work but I would get to shoot some pretty nude stuff to in exchange. Seemed like a fair trade…

So when I got to her place she wasn’t done doing her make up so I took a bunch of photos of her doing it. Let’s just say it took a while… After that she got out her latex domme stuff and put that on and lubed it up (which is a thing you do with latex) and by the time we went into the living room to shoot it was like completely dark in there. The light was fine in her room but the windows in the living room were on the opposite side of the apartment and I took one photo and knew our plan wasn’t going to work. We went back in her room and shot some stuff on her bed but it honestly wasn’t great. We kinda decided quickly that we would have to do the dominatrix stuff another day.

Still, the light outside was beautiful and we went into her back yard and shot a handful more photos. Unfortunately there were a bunch of people around so the topless stuff we did was pretty quick because we didn’t want to piss off the neighbors. Also there were a bunch of fucking mosquitos out and by my fifth bite in five minutes I ran inside like a coward.

In the end we got some nice stuff, just maybe not anything that was super useful to her. But maybe one of these days we will actually shoot the photos we had planned in the first place.

I should mention that I shot a bunch of 35mm photos of her, some of which are really nice, but I decided to save them for Girls of Driven By Boredom. You should just sign up for it already. It’s super cheap and I need the money. All the photos are in high resolution and there’s so much exclusive stuff on there. Do it.

Speaking of me needing the money, you still have time to get some of my books or zines or a DBB hat or something fun like that before Chirstmas. I know your mom wants a copy of my nude polaroid book signed by a bunch of porn stars. Make your mom happy this Christmas.

Now click here to see all the NSFW photos of my friend Franki.

I have a truly awful headache. I am not sure why you need to know that, but it’s really all I can think about right now. Fortunately everyone of us I am sucking it up and posting a bunch of photos of Kristen Scott.  I shot Kristen months ago and realized yesterday that I hadn’t actually posted these. I feel like that happens a lot. Please remind me if I took your photo like a year ago and just let the set vanish on a hard drive somewhere. Moving on…

This day was a fun one. I was staying with my bff Kasey Warner in LA. I was there for the LA Art Book Fair and to work on my book Instaxxx. This trip was actually one of the stretch goals for my Instaxxx Kickstarter. Because of the fair and some other stuff I didn’t have a ton of time to shoot or find locations. Kasey was nice enough to let me shoot at her place so I invited Kristen over. I also had a shoot scheduled with Cassidy Klein and someone was running late so they ended up showing up at the exact same time. It’s kinda funny because the first time Cassidy and I had a shoot the exact same thing happened and I ended up shooting her and Melissa Moore together.

Anyway, so Kristen and Cassidy show up at pretty much the exact time and Kasey’s friend Ember Stone was also staying there so I suddenly had four adult actresses in a living room together. After I shot Cassidy and Kristen one at a time in the back yard I convinced everyone to get naked on Kasey’s couch. They just wanted to eat tacos and smoke weed and I was totally fine with that. It made for a couple of great photos that ended up in Instaxxx and some pretty epic 35mm shots one of which ended up in my zine Not Safe as well.

So yeah I got tons of content that day for my personal art projects but I also have a bunch of digital shots for you to lurk. Kristen is super cool looking and I really want to shoot her again. I feel like if I had an hour to shoot her instead of the like 15 minutes we spent shooting we could get some great stuff. I think I was too focused on my book and the digital stuff was sort of secondary. That being said there are a bunch of rad photos for you to lurk AND there are even more, dirtier, photos Girls of Driven By Boredom subscribers. Speaking of Girls of DBB, that Cassidy set I shot at Kasey’s house is an exclusive set just for Girls of DBB so maybe you need to sign up already.  Now let’s look at some damn photos.

Click here to see all the NSFW photos of Kirsten Scott.

Last month I did a mini Florida road trip and I shot a bunch of rolls of film and I figured it was a good idea to post a bunch of the shots from the trip. I used to post all my 35mm stuff on Tumblr but since they changed their NSFW settings so that you have to be logged into Tumblr to view my photos I abandoned my Tumblr. I post some 35mm stuff on Twitter but honestly it looks like shit with their compression so I don’t post much.

So about the trip… I had to be in Miami for a Miami Dolphins event. My fan club/ non profit Dolfans NYC was up for some awards at a thing called Web Weekend that the Dolphins throw every year and we make a big donation to the Miami Dolphins Foundation at the same time. We ended up winning Best Community Oriented Site and Best Use Of Social Media and donated $7000 to the MDF and another $1000 to RISE. If I ever have to get a real job maybe this will look good on a resume?

Anyway, since I had to be in Florida anyway I thought it would be a perfect excuse to visit the Sausage Castle, this weird compound near Orlando run by Mike Busey. I met Mike at the Gathering of the Juggalos years ago and he had given me an open invite to visit the castle. Tragically it burned down but they ended up moving to a way better space and now have this mansion with like a hundred acres of land and all this bat shit crazy stuff like a tattoo studio, batting cage and a female pig named Richard Porkins. Mike also told me they might get a giraffe.

Now I could have flown into Orlando and then just taken a train down to Miami but I knew that this girl Magdalene lived not too far from Tampa so I hit her up about doing a little road trip. She seemed like she was down to do a whole week of Florida madness but it ended up just being two days because she is in college and had to do actual things. Still, I decided to fly into Tampa.

I ended up getting a hotel in Clearwater, FL because I am kinda obsessed with Scientology and their headquarters is in Clearwater and I wanted to check it out. The night before we left for our road trip Magda met me at my weird aqua colored motel and we did a photoshoot there before heading over to the Scientology HQ. Unfortunately there was way too much security to shoot some nudes in front of it but at least I got to lurk. After that we got some food and waited for a movie theater to close. Wait, what?

When I posted on Instagram that I was in Clearwater I had a fan reach out to me and offer her movie theater as a shoot location! Seriously. I thought it was going to be a tiny indie theater but it was this massive multiplex. I am not gonna mention the girl’s name or where exactly the theater is just incase she gets in trouble with her new owners, but let’s just she is my hero. We did a quick shoot there but we had to be up super early the next AM so I Ubered back to my hotel and slept for a few hours until Magda picked me up again.

We had this whole plan of shooting on the way to the Sausage Castle but unfortunately it was raining nearly the whole drive. Luckily it let up right about the time we got to the Castle and because it’s Florida immediately got super sunny and gave me incredibly harsh lighting for my photos. Whatever.

The Castle itself was fucking incredible. I talked about it already, but I can’t even explain how insane it is. I only got a few hours there before we went to Universal Studios for their Halloween haunted house madness so I really didn’t get to shoot enough. Mike set up a few shots of him and the Busey Beauties and I did a mini shoot with Kris Kannibal and Sir Richard Porkins the pig. It was cool but honestly I want to spend like a week at the Castle just documenting the weirdness that goes on behind the scenes. I just need to find a client to pay me to do it. It really is fucking nuts.

So right as the sun went down we jumped in a few cars and drove to Universal. They have a ton of haunted houses set up and everyone wanted to go. I kinda hate haunted houses because they aren’t scary and I don’t like being startled but Mike bought my ticket so I wasn’t gonna complain. It seemed like a good chance to get more candid stuff of everyone anyway.

At Universal we met up with WWE wrestler Mojo Rawly and a bunch of his friends for some reason. He is sponsored by Zubaz which is fucking amazing, I own multiple pairs vintage of Miami Dolphins Zubaz so that’s pretty much all I wanted to talk to him about. (Although later I found out we both grew up in the same town and went to the same high school as my first girlfriend and a ton of my good friends.) He had a big crew so we were rolling like 20 people deep through haunted house after haunted house.

Universal closed at like 1am or something like that and it took forever to assemble everyone, get food and get back to the Castle. By the time we made it pretty much everyone was passed out. Unfortunately the keys to Magda’s car were missing (we found them the next day fortunately) and all of my shit was in the car. By the time I realized that her trunk was unlocked it was like 4am and I had to get to the train early the next morning so I ended up sleeping like 3 hours in a bunk bed in a closet (seriously, they have 6 bunk beds for guests built into walk in closet). So unfortunately I didn’t get to shoot any crazy partying or any of the weird giant playground they have on the property.

I took a train to Del Ray, FL where my Dolfans NYC partner lives with her husband Alex. Two of my friends also happen to live close by so I thought I would get to see them but unfortunately one was in Tampa and the other one just straight up blew me off so aside from dinner with Michelle and fam I just hung out in the hotel room. Whatever. The next day Michelle picked me up and we headed to Miami for our Miami Dolphins weekend.

This post is already too long and I know you don’t care about the Dolphins so I will just let you look at the pictures now. I should mention that aside from the normal point and shoot 35mm film I shot there’s also a roll of black and white I shot on my Leica and a roll of 1600 film that expired in the 90’s. That stuff didn’t come out great but it’s still kinda interesting to look at.

And lastly, there’s a gallery of about 30 digital images from the Sausage Castle that I uploaded exclusively to Girls of Driven By Boredom. You can see those and a billion other exclusive high resolution images for like $18 a year or whatever the fuck it costs. Help me pay off my credit card. Now go look at photos already…

Click here to see all the 35mm photos from my weird Florida road trip! NSFW as per usual!

This weekend was the 10th annual New Jersey Exxxotica. I actually went to the very first one back when it was supposed to be Exxxotica New York but it got moved at the last moment. I met Stoya there who has let me crash with her at a couple Exxxoticas and was the inspiration for my Dinner With Igor book (and she signed some copies of my new book if you want one). The first one was really one of my first introductions to the adult industry aside from shooting Burning Angel parties. It’s cool to see where it’s gone in 10 years.

Also a big difference is that this time I was actually working for Exxxotica. My buddy Steve Prue is their main shooter and he wanted to do some portraits last year so they had me shoot for a few hours last year while he was doing that. I guess they dug my stuff because this year they brought me back to be a second shooter on Friday and Saturday. I had to be back in NYC to watch the Dolphins lose last night so I missed Sunday but I am sure it was a good time.

Usually when I cover a convention I am turning in 50 photos for a gallery on a website somewhere so I can hang out and fuck around and bang out a gallery in a couple hours. Shooting for Exxxotica I was pretty much going non stop and took a million photos which I edited down into a gallery of nearly 400! Fortunately for me my girlfriend Gia Paige was signing autographs all weekend so I got to hang out with her every couple of laps around the convention. Not the worst thing ever.

Not sure what else to mention (Ton Loc was there?!) but there’s a massive gallery for you to look through. If you want more info on some of my favorite pictures I did a pretty long Twitter thread yesterday. I also uploaded all the pictures to Girls of Driven By Boredom in high res and the gallery is way easier to navigate if you want to look through them all quickly. Really I just want to sell you stuff.

Speaking of selling you stuff, I got a bunch of girls to sign the mini edition of Instaxxx while I was walking around the convention. I got 5 copies signed by Gia, Abella Danger, Jojo Kiss, Charlotte Sartre, Jillian Janson, Joanna Angel, and Bobbi Dylan. I haven’t put em up for sale but I think I am gonna charge like $100 so if you want one email me now at igor@drivenbyboredom.com and we can work something out before they go up. And speaking of selling you stuff and Charlotte Sartre, a guy showed up wearing this shirt I made and had her sign it. I thought that was pretty great.

Okay, that’s enough of this. Gia is here and I gotta hang out with her instead of my computer. Go look at all these damn photos and congrats to Exxxotica on 10 years. Hope you guys have me back for a bunch more.

Click here to see all the photos from the 10th Exxxotica New Jersey in Edison, NJ.