Fetish Photographer Dirk Hooper Presents Large Exhibition at Art N Soul Studios

World-renowned fetish photographer Dirk Hooper will have ten pieces on display at the “Fetish Valentine 2” group exhibition. Hooper’s photos will be part of a show featuring five fetish artists and celebrating art and fetish culture at Art N Soul Studios in Allentown, Pennsylvania on February 13 at 8pm.

ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, February 10, 2010 – Fetish photographer Dirk Hooper will have ten pieces on display at the “Fetish Valentine 2” group exhibition.  Hooper’s photos will be part of a show featuring five fetish artists and celebrating art and fetish culture at Art N Soul Studios in Allentown, Pennsylvania on February 13 at 8pm.

Hooper also participated in the first “Fetish Valentine” exhibition in 2009.  “Art N Soul is expanding the show this year and making it bigger than ever, so I more than doubled my photos for the exhibition and decided to offer something special to support them.”  Hooper produced a limited edition print that will only be available at “Fetish Valentine 2”.  The print features Toxic Goddess Dame Lebeau in the photo “Inked” which has been displayed in three different juried exhibitions and two other curated art shows in the past year.

“Fetish Valentine 2” will have work from five different artists, a rope bondage demonstration and a live fetish photo shoot.  Guests are encouraged to wear fetish attire and even to participate in the live events.  Opening night for “Fetish Valentine 2” will be Saturday, February 13 at Art N Soul Studios at 516 W. Hamilton Street in Allentown Pennsylvania, and run for nearly a month.

Dirk Hooper is a world renowned fantasy and fetish photographer, fine artist, graphic designer and writer whose work has been described as “forbidden tales to rival the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and the Marquis de Sade.”  Dirk’s publishing credits include such diverse media as comic books, music CDs, art books and slick fetish magazines.  He has also cultivated a reputation as a fine artist in established venues like the prestigious Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum and as an underground visionary in galleries like the Electric Chair, “the Dirty Show” in Detroit, “Fetish Project” in Brussels, Belgium and “Siberia” in Utrecht, the Netherlands.  Dirk has work in the permanent collection of the Kinsey Institute based at Indiana University.  Dirk Hooper is the host and creator of “The Fetish Show” podcast and actively helps artists, writers and musicians with self-promotion and social networking.

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