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Rab Townsend
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Late 30s. Photographer, writer, composer. Woe-betide-thee prophet of the present day. He/him. Toronto.

These images are portents of doom: missives from the hidden world within our world. Feel shame and terror, please. But boost them if you like them.
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hatebunny.bsky.social
I did 30 photoshoots in 2025 with 28 models in times good and bad.

I made a free patreon post about it.
tinyurl.com/mtxt3wcs

Thanks for the likes and especially reposts this year.
Either have happy holidays, or destroy what prevents you from feeling joy and feel the small pleasure of retribution.
A mosaic of thirty faces (cropped from larger images), belonging to the 28 models who worked with photographer Rab Townsend in the year 2025. At the bottom of the mosaic, there is a message saying "30 shoots, 28 models, some fun experiments and some of our most expressive work. Thanks to all who worked with me in 2025! Happy holidays!"
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Seinsvergessenheit.

Toronto. August 9th, 2024.
Our days are forgotten in homogeneity. All we require is difference, yet we dance the same dance, even as we forget what it is to be dancing.

model: www.instagram.com/love.from.vi...

#photography #artmodel #nudemodel #nsfw #torontophotographer#purple
A photo of art model Victoriah by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman damp blonde hair, slicked back and clinging to the back of her neck. She is posing against a purple background and cast in a combination of orange, magenta, blue, and cyan light. Her hands are held tentatively at her waist, playing with her own fingers. Her body is oriented toward the left of frame, but her gaze is directed into the camera. Her expression is distrustful and accusatory.
December 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
cursed to discover I hadn't backed up one of my photoshoots right before I transferred it from my working drive to the archive, and now three of my edits are gone forever, and now I have to go back and edit three more. (It was partially backed up).
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
I feel like we’re supposed to think tim allen’s character in the santa clause is a bad dad, but this kid is no angel, with his little sassmouth.
December 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
formless forms.

Toronto. August 6th, 2024.
We forget, also, that our bodies are our emblems, designed to be seen, until we make them so visible that we forget there is a we inside of them.

model @illyriawulf.bsky.social

#photography #artmodel #nudemodel #torontophotographer #nsfw #fineartnude
A photo of art model Illyria Wulf by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman with long, curly, blond hair that tumbles down her shoulders and over her torso to her waist. She is posing against a turquoise background. She is cast in a combination of magenta, blue, and orange light. Both hands are raised up behind her head and tangled in the curls of her hair at the back of her head. Her gaze is directed toward the front-left of frame with an intent, glassy stare. Her lips are parted slightly.
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
on some level, I have to hope that the proliferation of "perfect" AI bodies in the "AI Nude" space will drive up the value of imperfect, real looking people.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Listen, Canon, you turdbutts, i don’t want your mirrorless cameras. Mirrors every day! Mirrors up your butt! Put a mirror in every camera!
December 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
If there are reels of you lipsynching on your instagram page, I probably don't want to work with you.
December 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
sentinels of stuff.

Toronto. July 24th, 2024.
We forget how desperately the material world will war with us when we discover how immaterial it is to our existence.

model: @madamesophie.bsky.social

#photography #fashion #artmodel #purple #torontophotographer #fashionphotography
A photo of art model Sofia Pedrazzoli by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a woman with short, dark, slicked back hair, posing in front of a purple background. She is cast in a combination of orange, cyan, and magenta light. She is wearing a half-zipped leather corset that exposes an egyptian themed tattoo on her sternum. Her left hand is placed on her hip, while her right arm is at her side, with a pair of designer sunglasses open in her right hand. Her arms and left leg are covered in tattoos. Her stance is wide. She is gazing directly into the camera with an expression of surprised disgust or offense.
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Every CEO right now: “sales are flailing. I think the only thing that could save us right now is to do the stupidest fucking thing imaginable.”
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
*while brushing my teeth* “I haven’t worked on my mystery project in a while. I should try working on that today so i don’t lose steam on it.”

*spends two hours brainstorming on it, naked with the toothbrush still sticking out of my mouth*
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Me: “i can’t afford to keep shooting this much in 2026.”
Every model: “i’m going to be slowing down my shoots in the coming year to focus on personal projects.”
Me: “NOOOOOOOOOoooooo”
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Horrific that the phrase “come to the phone” is a generational divider.
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
I guess I should share my old band's weird christmas album, if I'm going to vaguepost about shilling it.

Depressing (darkly funny??) original prog-folk songs about the holidays.

horsesaboutmen.bandcamp.com/album/new-ad...

#musicsky #musiciansky #originalmusic #bandcamp
New Adventures in Old Shame, by Horses About Men
16 track album
horsesaboutmen.bandcamp.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Every year, I shill my old band's weird christmas album, and every year, one person listens to it, and I guess that's fine.
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
hatebunny.bsky.social
Every time I talk to less experienced models about trade shoots, the first thing they do is ask "what if we abandoned your concept and did a thing that wasn't the thing you are known for doing and clearly want to keep doing forever."
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
a pitiless progress.

Toronto. July 19th, 2024.
After all these needful transformations, there is nothing of pity remaining for those yet to transform.

model: @nausicaayami.bsky.social

#photography #purple #artmodel #nudemodel #fineartnude #artisticnude #torontophotographer #nsfw #witchy
A photo of art model Nausicaa Yami by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman with dark black hair falling down her back. Some tendrils of her hair are caught in a breeze and blowing upward. She is posing against an indigo background and cast in a combination of orange, blue, magenta, and cyan light. Her left hand is pressed into her right thigh, while her right hand rests on her right hip, creating tension in her upper body and an unusual angularity. Her face is turned somewhat to the left of frame, and her gaze is directed even further left, with an expression of disgust or contempt. The image suggests embodiment, but alienation from without.
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
unperturbance.

Toronto. June 21st, 2024.
Any known element remains an element. An expected interference is therefore not unwelcome.

model: @aliclairemodel.bsky.social

#photography #artmodel #nudemodel #fineartnude #artisticnude #nsfw #torontophotographer #purple
A photo of art model Ali Claire by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman with curled, platinum blonde hair, which falls just past her shoulders. She is posing against a violet background and cast in a combination of magenta, cyan, and orange light. She is posing in profile, with her body oriented toward the left of frame. She is wearing a thin, metallic neck-ornament comprised of two linked circles, arranged vertically, and a tassel dangling from the lower of the two. Her hands are held out tentatively in front of her, at near-right angles from her body. She is looking back over her shoulder, with her gaze to the right of frame. Her expression suggests a distraction in which the model is disinterested, or a pointed, dismissive glance in the midst of some more important moment.
December 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
I have heard that, according to studies, the majority of people (surveyed) like the poetry LLMs write more than real poetry. I posit that this because the majority of people are really, very stupid and illiterate.
December 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
dastardly that the outer flavour of tictacs is vanilla, but then it's MINT.
December 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
hatebunny.bsky.social
admittedly, editing the shoots I've had since starting the slime thing, but that did not include the slime is now kind of a bummer.
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
plea for certainty.

Toronto. May 6th, 2024.
All our lives we plead, “do not take this from me.” Of all the things of which we can be most certain, it is that these lives will be taken from us.

model: @muirinafae.bsky.social

#photography #artmodel #nudemodel #fineartnude #nsfw #torontophotographer
A photo of art model Muirina Fae by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman with long dark hair falling down her back. She is posing against a violet background and cast in a combination of cyan, blue, and magenta light. Her arms are pressed close to her chest, with both hands cradling the left side of her face. Her body is turned slightly away from the right, as if protecting herself. Her gaze is directed to the upper left of frame, with an expression of sadness or longing. The image suggests a longing that one knows cannot be fulfilled or a plea to an obstinate god.
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
I know this is the most pointless task in my workflow, but I love making the little face boxes on my photos in Lightroom. And while I do it after i've done all my edits, it often reminds me of great images I didn't edit that I could have.
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
need not need.

Toronto. April 15th, 2025.
What a terror to know the meaninglessness of a body, and to rely so entirely upon one.

model: @irapassion.bsky.social

#photography #artmodel #nudemodel #artisticnude #fineartnude #nsfw #torontophotographer #blue
A photo of art model Ira Balan by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman with dark hair, slicked back and clinging to her neck. She is posing against a dark blue background and cast in a combination of orange, cyan, magenta, and blue light. She is skinny, with visibly protruding clavicle bones. Both hands are pressed into her abdomen, with elbows bent at nearly right angles. She is using her palms to twist her loose skin in opposite directions, creating a surreal effect. Her gaze is to the right of frame with an expression of profound concern and discomfort. Her lips are stained red with dark lipstick. The image suggests some kind of transformation or turmoil within.
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
hatebunny.bsky.social
made for these.

Toronto. April 6th, 2025.
What is a body for if not experiencing pain? What is a mind for, if not enduring suffering? We cannot learn what without either.

model: @alexiafx.bsky.social

#photography #artmodel #nudemodel #fineartnude #artisticnude #torontophotographer #nsfw #darkart
A photo of art model Alexia Flux by photographer Rab Townsend. The model is a nude woman with dark, hair falling just past her shoulders, and blunt bangs. She is posing against a blue background and cast in a combination of orange, cyan, and purple light. She is thin and her body is visibly twisting, as her muscles tense and her ribcage protrudes. Both arms are raised, with her right reaching up and behind her back, while her left hand is raised to support her head. Her hips are angled, jutting to the right, creating a slight curve. Her head is bowed slightly with eyes closed and teeth gritted, in an expression of pain or stress. The image evokes a struggle between the body and the mind, as well as transformation.
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM