Focusing primarily on nudes for his personal work, he feels clothing acts as a barrier to keep us tied to society and all that it represents.
He is very drawn to shooting in nature, with the body becoming at one with the environment. He has always had an attraction to the classics in black-and-white photography and wishes to create images that celebrate the glory of the human physique, showing both its strength and its delicacy. Rank aside, we think he might find himself getting saluted a whole lot more these days.Steven Menendez is a fine art, portrait, and fashion photographer based in New York. Today, he could make his way up to Balmoral and get some face time (and likely a scolding for the record books) from Queen Elizabeth II and his dad Prince Charles before resuming his military service in the U.K. Though he made his way out of Las Vegas the morning after his naked partying ways (he was reportedly spotted in Los Angeles hours later, though a layover may explain that), E! News confirmed that the prince finally returned to London and was gearing up for quite a showdown. This is about the ludicrous situation where a picture can be seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world on the Internet, but can't be seen in the nation's favorite paper." 24, 2012: British tabloid The Sun decides to run the Harry photo after all in its Friday edition with headline "Heir It Is!" headline and subtitle "Pic of naked Harry you've already seen on the Internet." Managing editor David Dinsmore explains to E! News, "For us, this is about the freedom of the press. And how much could such a spread cost? " A million dollars is not out of the question," the mag's publisher says.Īug. In the least surprising development yet, Playgirl tells E! News that, however unlikely, it would love to feature the au naturel Harry in its pages. 23, 2012: Bullet-dodging party pal Ryan Lochte sits down with Matt Lauer and reveals his thoughts on Harry's hairy situation-specifically as they pertained to him avoiding being painted by the same scandalous brush.
"Hope no ones mad at him for that, I'm certainly not." So speaketh Mother Monster, so speaketh the world.Īug. "HOLY MOTHER HARRY LOOKS FIT," she tweeted. Meanwhile, celebs come out in support (and appreciation) of Harry and his physique, with Lady Gaga leading the online fray. They comply, to hilarious and creative results. The royal family gave their best puppy dog eyes and pretty-pleases to the British media, specifically requesting that they not run Harry's naked self in their pages or online due to the implied privacy violation that yielded the photos in the first place. 22, 2012: what happens in Vegas in no way stays in Vegas, but it does somehow stay out of the U.K. and Harry is no doubt feeling slightly, um, emboldened, he takes it upon himself to challenge the gold medalist to an impromptu swimming race.Īug.
While at the Wynn Hotel's XS nightclub, he meets up with none other than Olympian Ryan Lochte. Later that night, he hits up another pool party, this time for a little more harmless fun. "We just stood there with our jaws dropped." Monica adds, "How many people can say they met and spoke to Prince Harry? This story can't be topped." Oh, but it could and did. He does, however, cross paths with a bachelorette party (of course he did), and two of the revelers, Lauren and Monica Martirano, tell Inside Edition that the prince was a "gentleman." Counted among the other klieg light-worthy attendees: Jennifer Lopez, though by all reports, the famous pair never crossed paths. The royal kicks off the boys' weekend (he had about six or seven hangers-on in tow) dancing, joking and drinking. 18, 2012: Prince Harry is first spotted in Sin City, getting his feet wet at a star-studded pool party held at MGM Grand's Wet Republic. Though the world won't know it for a few days yet.Īug. Harry checks into the Wynn Encore Tower ahead of the night that will live in infamy.