LOLITA Magazine: Nubile Nymphet Models

This is what was written on the About page of the (now defunct) Lolita magazine's website:

LOLITA magazine is a new playful photo zine about girls.

Entirely handmade as a limited edition print zine, as well as an online magazine, Jolijn Snijders (founder of I LOVE FAKE magazine) literally went back to the drawing board in search to create a fresh, original look as a D.I.Y. format playing with illustration, old school copy machines, hand written typo and lots of pretty [young] girls shot by photographers worldwide.

The print zine will be sold exclusively via the website this fall.

And as you can determine from the photographs screenshots, the description is on point. The magazine was a nympholept's dream (i.e., It's brimming with nymphets.) The photographs reminded us of Balthus, Vivienne Mok, and Richard Kern.

Here are some quotes from the magazine:

"Lolita is young, fun and bright! And makes me happy to be a girl!"

"[...] playful and innocent: two keywords a lolita girl must have in our eyes."

"Lolita means a perfect mix between playfulness and innocence; a young carefree girl who knows how to enjoy life."

Lolita magazine definitely added to the debate - is it art or [child (softcore)] pornography?

LOLITA - Romee & Sanne from Lolita Zine on Vimeo.

Vivienne Mok: "Personal" Photos of Nymphets

Vivienne Mok Photography

I wrote in The Allure of Nymphets and on this blog about photographers and painters of nymphets like Jacques Bourboulon, David Hamilton, Serge Marshennikov, Frank Herholdt, Richard Kern, and Balthus - all of whom are men. However, I was recently introduced to Vivienne Mok - 27-year-old female photographer .

Mok was born in New York and grew up between Paris and Hong Kong, but after she graduated from Manhattan's Parsons School of Design, she took a job as a designer in Paris at the Fashion House of Anne Valerie Hash and subsequently took up photography.

In an interview on the James Robinson Photography blog, Mok was asked, "[...] why the genre of photography you have chosen? Mok replied, "I don’t know if I have chosen this style of photography, it happened quite naturally, I think that it’s something I have in me because it is very personal." 

And in an interview on Les Filles, Mok shared, "I would describe my work as feminine, dreamy, personal." Thus, Mok described her photographs of nude and semi-nude nymphets as "personal", which could mean that the true meaning behind her photographs is private. 

Photographer Vivienne Mok

Frank Herholdt and Richard Kern: Photographers of Nymphets

According to Frank Herholdt's Linkedin profile, he graduated from the Johannesburg School of Art in 1967 with a degree in Fine Arts  and subsequently developed his photography career in London. He has won a number of international awards including the New York Art directors Club and has worked for many established adverting agencies and blue chip clients.

Frank Herholdt's Lolita and Equestrian

59-year-old Richard Kern graduate from the University of North Carolina and subsequently moved to New York City to develop his career. According to his website, he is photographer, filmmaker and first and foremost, a portraitist. Kern is a regular contributor to Vice and Purple, he has published 11 books, and his films and photographs have been exhibited at the MoMA and the Whitney Museum. 

Richard Kern's Piano and Self-Service

Like Balthus, clearly, the len's of Herholdt and Kern focuses on the allure of nymphets. And despite their risqué themes, both Herholdt and Kern continue to be hired by established adverting agencies and exhibit in prestigious museums, respectively.