Nikki Reed publicerade de här bilderna på hennes hemsida [iamnikkireed] den 5 augusti.Bilderna tagna av hennes bror Nathan!

I Love It!

Most of the time when actresses/models do photo shoots, they show up, and get told what to do. It’s a relatively thoughtless process for me, and I’ve always felt like I wanted to contribute, in some way, to the theme of the shoot.

My older brother is an unbelievable photographer.  Some people can take amazing photographs of things, but not necessarily of people.  Nathan has this ability to capture human emotion through the lens like nothing I have ever seen before (Most of what I am talking about is apparent in his photos taken while he traveled Europe and South America).  We decided a few weeks back that we wanted to do a shoot together.  Why haven’t we done this before? I don’t know.  It seems like it would satisfy both of our artistic desires right?  I suppose it can be viewed as very narcissistic that I want my brother to take pictures of me, but its good practice for him to learn to photograph an actress (an art of its own believe me) and I get to take pictures that actually appeal to me.  At the very least its tons of fun, and because working with a family member can be challenging, we end up strengthening our bond through every creative endeavor that we do together.  With the help of a few friends 5 Sundays ago (Kristin Ess who does hair and contributed theme ideas, and Samuel Paul who does makeup ), we took some rather fun/stylized pictures….

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