lmao you are too funny! Although, some of the luxury homes look like tombs sometimes - guess if you spend to much on a house you can't afford electric! lol So, my Goth work is under the name.... Lush VanRipp ! How's that for comic book goth! lmao I had to put my funny spin on it, ya know? The kicker is that I don't show up for some of the gallery shows of my work and when I do, I don't say i'm Lush. I like to hear what people think without trying to appease me.

Quote Originally Posted by Asylum Steve
Janie,

IMO, that's actually a good way to seperate your photo "personae", especially if they need to have a certain viewer or customer perception, and the various aspects of your different types of work may conflict in that regard.

I had a German fashion photographer friend in Miami that became a sort of mentor to me some years back, and he said established Euro shooters would often use aliases to do "mimic" work (IOW, copying another photographer's style) for lower end magazines, primarily where using their real name would hurt their reputation.

What I think is funny is that you mention the obvious real estate clients possibly being put off by your goth work, but have you considered the flip side of that coin: your "legitimacy" as a goth shooter might be irreparably harmed if they knew you shot, ohmigod!, REAL ESTATE for a living...