Welcome to the Private Gallery - Vasily

Welcome

Welcome to this previously unpublished set of images. I was motivated to create this private gallery since Facebook and Instagram took down the first B&W image shown in the gallery below. Yep, the one with the rope over his shoulder saying it violates their rules on "sexual solicitation". Ridiculous! 

It's impossible to explain the inconsistency of their rules, or their hostility and censorship of male art. So I created this gallery to show additional images of him that would definitely get me shut down on social media pages. 

Behind-the-Scenes Story

I initially photographed him shortly after he arrived from Russia performing here in the US before he became famous. He's particularly unique because of his incredible muscular size combined with being a ballet dancer. It means he was extremely flexible and capable of creating artistic images with beautiful symmetry. During the first shoot in the desert I didn't realize that the patch of grass I sat on to get a shot looking looking up at him was actually a cactus! It put a ton of painful micro needles into my ass! I was bleeding into my pants but didn't want to stop the flow of getting the awesome shots! Afterwards, he was incredibly helpful in using tweezers to extract the thorns from my ass, since I couldn't sit in the car to drive. We subsequently did additional shots here in San Diego that made working with him an even better story. The image of him holding up a column was done on the main street of University Avenue in Hillcrest that stopped traffic. He went on to become very famous and popular in other Las Vegas shows and film shoots. 

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