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Josef
Botello was born and raised in Texas and studied photography...
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Josef Botello,
Self-portrait
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...under Gary Bishop who helped
shape his approach to making gun-and-bondage-laced photos of nude women
looking powerful and unashamedly erotic. Regarding the line of social
acceptability in Botello‘s work, Mr. Bishop declares, "for
Joe there were no lines. For Joe, if there were going to be lines
drawn, he would draw them."
After
beginning his craft in the traditional world of 35mm film, Botello soon
opted for a digital  point-and-shoot
as he argues that "one
doesn‘t need fancy equipment to make an interesting
image... what
I point the camera at and when I press the shutter button are
much more
important. And I really don‘t have time to fumble around
with a bunch of technical crap when I‘ve got a naked woman
standing in front of me, and I‘m trying to capture some raw
sexuality while making everything within the frame look perfect."
Botello’s first
book Girls, Guns and
Ropes was published in 2006 by Mixofpix/Goliath Books. His work has been
praised in publications such as Marquis, Secret, Femme Fatales, Eros
Zine, Laufmasche and Schlagzeilen.
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Girls, Guns
and Ropes
Josef
Botello's Photo Book
Girls, Guns and Ropes
Hardcover 160 pages 190 photos
Signed $24.95 plus $5.00 S&H
"Josef
Botello goes at this
subject with fresh gusto, with zest and originality -- and from the
first page, I ate it up with a spoon. These gorgeous dames are agents
provocateur like you wouldn't believe, and I challenge you
to thumb
through this book without drooling.” Thomas Roche, Eros Zine
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