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Chris Polubinski - Photographer
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Occasional Photographer
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📍 North of Boston
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IG gets full color, but Bluesky gets uncensored. Who is the real winner?

Back in October with Lexi Mode
Black and white image of a blonde woman in a transparent dress. The shoulder straps have slipped off her shoulders. She gazes down at herself as her hands gently caress her body. the image is watermarked with the name "Polubinski" in a stylized font.
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I am slowly getting back into working with models again after over a year of virtually no shoots. Here's an image from last week working with Lexi Mode.

BlueSky is seeing it before Instagram does, and you all get the uncensored version!
Black and white image of a blonde model wearing a sheer slip dress. The dress straps are falling off of her shoulders. She looks downwards towards her body as her hands gently caress herself.
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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By request, here are a few more from my shoot with Jessi from a few years back. She's retired from the modeling game and moved on to the career for she had been modeling to pay for schooling.
B&W image of a brunette model standing against a light colored wall. She is topless and wearing a pair of shredded denim jeans. B&W image of a brunette model standing against a light colored wall. She is topless and wearing a pair of shredded denim jeans. Nude, brunette model laying on a wooden floor. Nude, brunette model sitting on a wooden floor.
June 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Amy, from 2022

I've posted her before, and as I said then, I think she's retired from modeling now. I see her pop up on social media now and again, but no new pro shots in years.
A nude, tattooed, brunette model sitting in a darkened room. She is wrapped in a red sheet such that only one breast is exposed.
June 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Jinx Spectere from back in 2021

I loved the overall classical statue nature of this, but my favorite detail is the shadow on her face caused by her hair that took on the red coloring of the accent light.
Low key image of a brunette model wrapped in a red sheet, which has dropped just a bit in the front to expose one breast. She stands against a black background which is ever so slightly lit with red.
May 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I haven't worked with a model in six months, and haven't picked up a camera in four. But a sugar skull themed shoot was something that I've wanted to do for years so I came out of hiatus just for this opportunity.

Styling, hair, makeup, and modeling by: Krystal Tuck (not on social media)
Redheaded model wearing sugar skull makeup, sitting in a chair, holding a hand fan, wearing a long, black dress against an orange backdrop. Portrait of a redheaded model in sugar skull makeup and black clothes. Taken using a Lensbaby Edge 50 lens, producing an image where the eyes are in focus while the rest of the image becomes increasingly out of focus.
May 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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2023 with Paige Hoffman
B&W image of a brunette model in torn up denim jeans and a dark colored tank top. The tank top has slipped off of one shoulder, partially exposing her nipple.
May 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I've known Lumen since her very first days as a model. We worked together tangently, but the one time we were going to shoot 1:1, I caught covid. Months later, this opportunity came up and I couldn't be more pleased with the results.

In frame: Lumen Foxx
Brunette model in a red and black jeweled and feathered mask, and a long red gown. She is laying in a lyra hoop, dangling in mid-air.
April 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The second model from the 2022 beach shoot I posted yesterday. This is Jenn Marie, a kind of off and on model who fits it into her schedule where she can.
Model in a white t-shirt, resting up on her elbows while laying in a tidal pool and looking into the camera. Model in a white tshirt, splashing in the ocean.
April 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Another one from 2022.

My camera club does an annual beach shoot to close out summer. This was the first one I attended, and we got a misty, overcast day. But the images were spectacular with both models giving it their all.

This is Amanda absolutely torturing her eyes for me.
Portrait of a brown-eyed, brunette model laying in a tidal pool, her hair melting away into the water which is also covering her body. Her hands, tipped with light blue fingernails, frame her face.
April 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Desperately hoping my model, Vestalina Lotus, doesn't set my friends octa on fire 🤣
April 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Eva from 2022.

I think she's changed her modeling name since we worked together. She may go by Honey now, I'm not 100% sure.

Truth be told, if I were to do this today, I would approach both the shot and the processing differently, but I still like where this landed.
Grainy, b&w image of a nude brunette sitting up on the back of a couch, running her hands through her hair.
April 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sidney Summers and Susie Stellar, photographed in Los Angeles in 2023
A redhead model and a blonde model posing together in baby blue lingerie against a grey background
April 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Charlie Kristine from 2020
Rim light portrait of a woman's torso
April 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Lydia Jay (not on BS) done a few years back during a bodyscape study shoot in conjunction with @musingeye.bsky.social . (You owe it to yourselves to go check out his work and profile.)
Black and white, low key image of a nude woman, one side of her body visible from her knee to her neck with the other side falling off into darkness. Her form is inverted from our viewpoint, and her head and lower legs are obscured in darkness, effects which combine to create both a familiar and beautiful, while also unsettling and abstract image.
April 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Here's a REAL rarity from my archives! Predating my attempt to become a photographer of models by more than two years, I attended a camera demo/tryout hosted by Olympus. They had a couple models and lighting set up to test things out, and I knew NOTHING about shooting people or that environment.
Tattooed model in a bra and suit jacket.
April 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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From 2022. This is still one of my favorite poses, though I haven't shot another version of it in quite a while. Suggestive without being graphic.

Which is your favorite, color or b&w?

In frame: Marisa (who I don't see modeling anymore and is very rarely even active on her social media)
B&W image of a model lying on her back with her legs crossed, one foot in the air. She is wearing block, flower-print lace stockings, and a pair of satin and lace panties dangle from her toes. Color image of a model lying on her back with her legs crossed, one foot in the air. She is wearing block, flower-print lace stockings, and a pair of satin and lace panties dangle from her toes.
March 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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In an industry packed full of models who show up with suitcases of beautiful lingerie and dresses, the fastest way to this photographer's heart is to whisper to me in passing, "I have a skeleton onesie with me," which is exactly how this happened.

In frame: Calypso Ghost
Blonde model wearing a skeleton print onesie. She stands in a darkened studio, background illuminated with a purple light. Her eyes are closed and head tipped gently back, the onesie undone to her midsection.
March 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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From waaaay back in 2021. I was still figuring things out (heck, I still am) but already showing a tendency towards the type of work I admire.

In frame: Bailey Daniels (I think she's retired now...)
Low key, black and white image of a well-toned nude female torso. Her hands cup her breasts, and the image cuts off at her pubic area, thus covering up any nudity (though I have voluntarily tagged this as a nude image).
March 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I hadn't heard of Jamie before shooting with her, but she came ready to rock with all kinds of unique, fun, and experimental poses. From 2023.

In frame: Jamie Lee Bauern
Black and white image of a nude woman curled up and sitting on a wooden floor at the feet of a small easy chair, against a brick wall with some exposed power plugs and wiring conduits.
March 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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From back in 2021

In frame: Charlie Kristine
Blonde model wearing a red lace robe, sitting on a white sheepskin rug in a high key photo set.
March 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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It's so beautiful...

#flashes
Screenshot of my profile as it appears in the Flashes for Bluesky app
February 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I've been going through a really tough time of it lately and it hasn't been in me to post at all. Even this feels a bit hollow, but let it serve as proof of life.

From a Halloween event at a now-closed local studio.

In frame: Allison
Looking down upon a female model in a sea of blackness. She has crimson hair which matches her ornate, leopard-print, knee high boots, and the trimmings on her leopard-print dress. In her hand, she holds a classically-styled microphone, giving her the look of an 80s rock vixen crossed with a torch singer from the 30s.
February 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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From just over three years ago. I'll probably share more from this one over time. As long as you learn at least one new thing on a shoot, that knowledge is priceless. For instance, I learned that nipple piercings can and will get stuck between open floorboards.

In frame: Amy (retired, I think)
A nude, tattooed, brunette model laid out on a wooden floor in a room with blue walls. Her head is turned slightly to us and she looks directly at the camera with piercing blue eyes. B&W image of a nude, tattooed, brunette model laid out on a wooden floor. Her head is turned slightly to us and she looks directly at the camera.
February 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This opportunity just fell into my lap. The artist reached out to me on a visit to Boston wanting to shoot, but we couldn't make it work. As luck would have it, I was traveling to her area just a few months later and a few accidentally triggered fire alarms later...

In frame: Vestalina Lotus
Tattooed, brunette model sits on a worn leather couch. The darkened room is bathed in a soft, blue light. She wears a black corset and black skirt and is adorned with intricate silver jewelry such as an anklet, waist chains, and a large necklace. Her outstretched hands each have a large, silver lotus ring atop them from which a single stem rises ending in a ball which is on fire, the warm, orange light illuminating her. Portrait of a brunette model wearing a black leather necklace adored with silver o-rings and chains. The room is illuminated in a soft, blue light. Her gaze is directly into the camera. Her eyes are in sharp focus while the rest of the frame fades into a soft, dreamy, out-of-focus look. Orange flames lick up the sides of the image, and are reflected back to us in her deep, brown eyes. In a very dark room, we see a tight shot of the model's cheek, nose, mouth, and jaw entering the frame from the lower left. Her mouth is seductively opened, sensually glistening, with her tongue gently extended against her lower lip. A blazing ball of flame on the end of a wand enters the frame from the top right and lingers just above her mouth.
January 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM