Malc SleekImager
"Malcolm's work has an immediate feel, an intimacy of moment. He has said that his years of underwater photography strongly influenced his current work; he jokes that fetish models and tropical fish have much in common. An official photographer for Skin Two's RubberBall and many fetish events over the past 8 years, he has an excellent skill at catching beautiful and impressive moments of performances. A fetishist himself, his studio work has a real ring of truth beyond the sexy images."
Malcolm started doing photography when he was seven years old, over the years focusing on city and landscapes, and animal portraits. His first "real" camera was a Kodak Instamatic 126 in his pre-teens. In high school, he moved up to an Olympus OM-10 (inspired by a cousin's OM-1). When he moved to California, underwater photography took over as his main passion, and he spent ridiculous amounts of money on Nikon, Ikelite and Subal equipment, and travel, all to keep little rolls of (typically) Fuji Velvia happy and dry.
After he'd been living in Southern California for a time, Malcolm got involved with the fetish scene, and within 18 months was shooting event photos for SkinTwo and other national and international fetish events. Fish and cityscapes became secondary to people in shiny clothes, doing kinky things. Very quickly in this process, quality consumer digital photography became a reality, and even more money went off to Nikon and Fuji.
Malcolm and Zille met in 2000, at a mutual friend's going away party. Zille was running a porn site, and wanted guest photographers to be featured on it, and Malcolm (obviously) was a fetish photographer who was delighted to come do some fun shoots.
Highlights from their early working together are:
- a cover of On Our Backs magazine
- a vampire-fetish shoot
- a sexy water-bondage shoot
- and one shoot that involved a pink union-suit, chocolate syrup, Tabasco sauce, and lilac soap...
Zille had nursed a crush on Malcolm since first meeting him, and finally, in 2005, they were both available and "on the market" to start dating. He ended up collaring her on their very first proper date (we won't go into the improper ones!) and they were married in the spring of 2008.
Theirs is a partnership in every sense: fellow photographers working together and inspiring each other, happily kinked partners for life, and best friends.