SEX POSITIVITY
Erotic photographer Ellen Stagg writes about the message of her new book, “More Dirty Girls Having Fun,” and why sex work is “definitively feminist.”
Erotic photographer Ellen Stagg is well-known for shooting the world’s most beautiful people, but it’s her seductive glorification of the nude female form that has brought the Brooklyn-based artist the most attention: “I love empowering women, celebrating and collaborating with them through my photography.” Raised in Connecticut, Stagg took up photography in high school, graduating with a BFA in Photography from New York City’s prestigious School of Visual Arts. She gained a solid reputation shooting actors, musicians and sports stars for mainstream publications such as Life, Vibe, Interview, Maxim, Flaunt, I-D and Teen Vogue before shooting sexually-explicit content for adult starJustine Joli in 2005. In 2016 Stagg released her first erotic photo book Dirty Girl Collection.