By G. Martinez Cabrera
The new pin-up.
Recently, camera shutters were clicking and clothes were coming off in Potrero Hill. Fifteen photographers from all over the West Coast gathered at Blue Sky Rental Studios for an all-day bootcamp hosted by Zivity.
Zivity specializes in publishing pin-up and glamour photography while stressing the importance of the model’s role in each picture. Models and photographers find each other on the site and decide on the tone and the content of each set as a team. To ensure an equal partnership, Zivity splits royalties equally between photographer and model for every shoot. Usually “photographers get all the credit,” one participant said, but Zivity seems to want to change that.
The collaborative process.