[PoleNinja]

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I travel the entire world full time.  Every country is different.

I travel the entire world full time too. Contrary to your belief, every country is quite similar about making contacts to visit restricted or abandoned magnificent spots.

Wherever you are, blatantly asking someone you don't know to reveal a secret and coveted place, to be available at your disposal during 4 hours and moreover to provide safety and easy-access to you and your friend, is definitely not the right way. Not in France nor in any other country. If you're looking for safe and legal places, just contact a film location service and pay for their work. If you're looking for something else, play by the rules...

Nice pictures and nice work indeed, but definitely a bad approach.

Thanks for the compliment.  But also, I feel that because you travel a lot, and you have your resources, it is still different wherever I go.  Bolivia, and the amazon forest, was far different than scotland and norway and iceland.  The US shares similarities, in some ways, to Paris, apparently, but it doesn't adhere as strictly.  Most of my work has been done through personal exploration and risk, but when you only have 4-5 days in each location, and your goal is to create and preserve art combined with the environment and the rich history around you, you can't do that in only 4-5 days.  You have to draw on the resources of locals, and when the locals don't know, you have to work harder to try to find other options.  It means being overly ambitious, sometimes, but that is what art is.  You have to try.  That's my philosophy.  And a film location service can be very expensive for a private photographer who is already losing reams of money doing a personal project.   And, of course, film location services don't really capture the realness of a culture, often.

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Do you make money with your photos ?

-Bhv-

Quite the opposite, so far.

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I need a location that is extremely easy-access, private, and very very safe. It does not-have to be the "best" location, as much as safe. It could be on a roof, underground, anywhere cool, really. I would-have 4-6 people with me. I know this is a difficulty task. It would probably take 4 hours.

I'd charge 50€ per hour on location for this kind of task. Preparation time would be already included in the figure. I think it's a fair deal: my plumber charges twice as much, has no risks to take and no preparation to do. And there are probably a few more plumbers in town than available guides for such special requests.

I think this is fair, but also more than I have.  But thank you.  Also, it sounds like according to this community that you couldn't be reputable because you asked for the money.  This is based on your fellow commenters.

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Hi !
Well, I've just watched your Instagram gallery and  think that you're doing an amazing job.
I really like your "point of view" in your photographies, it's not "sexy", it's not too much, it's just a perfect contrast between sexiness and power of your models.

But as my colleagues said, you're trying a bad approach in this world. I'm not gonna repeat what they said before me.
If you want to find someone, don't talk about money now, you may know (as I know) how people are getting mad with money...
For sure you don't know about a lot of things of our community, but we've got the same rules as urbux's ones (and I know that a lot of people are thinking "there no rules in urbex" I don't care) : don't talk about money, don't talk about the entrance...don't talk about a lot of things ^^

I hope that you can find someone OK to guide you in this secret and wonderful dark cold world.

Good luck 

I understand, and thank you for your polite message.  I like to portray my models as strong and powerful, as they are.  Most of them are professional dancers, which is unique.
I mentioned above that my approach is to try to create unique art.  I often think that communities like this actually love their secret world, and seek to preserve it.  I respect that.  For me, I want to not only preserve it, but create something unique and magical and powerful out of it.  In order to do so, I have to act and think outside the box.  There is a learning curve, as with everything, and I have put in my time and efforts myself--but there are times where you must ask for help.  This is me asking for help, even though I have been in urbex in probably the purest form, doing it all myself, for quite a few years.  More than a decade, really.  I have all the evidence to prove it, and only recently have I shared any of them as artistic pieces
I think this community is both awesome in its aggressive preservation, and also blind, sometimes, to the importance of preservation in other forms.  But that is my approach, and I know it is not everyone's--to create art and to help "save" another piece of history.