HOME IMPROVEMENT

WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS, BUT FOR US, EVERY YEAR WHEN SPRING COMES, WE START GETTING THAT ITCH OF REFRESHING AND RENEWING. IT IS THE TIME OF YEAR, THAT AFTER A COLD WINTER, YOU WANT TO OPEN ALL YOUR WINDOWS, LET A FRESH BREEZE BLOW THROUGH YOUR HOME AND WHY NOT REPAINT EVERYTHING WITH FRESH, NEW COLORS.

The difficulty with renovating your house is not only to find the right materials and colors, but mostly to find the right guy for the job. We advise to ask friends who recently went through the same exercise. Guaranteed they will be able to give you one or two names of a handy-man who can help out. And if you are lucky, he is not only handy but also handsome. Someone like Alex Prinz for example.

Alex Prinz is 23 years old and lives in London. Career-wise he is a media driven guy, meaning he is very active in his modeling (in Europe and the USA), is involved in magazine and run way jobs and just started  turning his hand to DJ-ing and show presenting. Besides all that, he is also the kind of guy who like to fix things around the house, and that turned out to be quite useful when photographer Dean Stockings contacted him.

Some time ago, UK based photographer Dean Stockings was in the process of renovating a flat when he came in contact with Alex Prinz. Both Dean and Alex had admired each others work from afar for a while and decided to see what happened if they got together on a project. But when that finally happened, Dean was in the middle of his renovation work, which normally isn't the most convenient situation to do a shoot. But creative as Dean is, he decided to us the circumstances to his best advantage and decided to work with all the mess around. Dean explains: "The option was to clear some space and set up a plain paper background with the studio lighting, or actually get Alex to do a bit of the work and photograph it as part of the shoot in the light available from the window. I'm not one to turn down the offer of someone doing a bit of free decorating for me, so we went with the latter, and as you can see, after a few beers and a bit of paint throwing, the results worked brilliantly!"

There clearly is some kind of chemistry between Alex and Dean and even though the two gentlemen only had the opportunity to work together twice, they already landed two magazine covers, as well as a 10 page spread. First for refresh, and more recently for DNA Magazine. "Everybody who saw the finished images loved them, and we had the pick of several top magazines who wanted to publish them," Dean continues. "The thing I most admire about Alex is that he is incredibly dedicated to a project and puts so much into it, but always makes it look so effortless - a true pro!" A pro in modeling he most certainly is. Having a sports background in rugby, Alex now works out 6 times by week to keep his body in shape, which results in numerous job offers. Next month for example, he will return to New York and Miami to work on some projects with some very talented and creative people. If he is such a pro in home renovation as well remains to be seen. But hey, he can do our flat anytime he wants. –B-

BeautifulMag archive for Dean Stockings: Snow Angels | Dean Stockings' Adventure Kit. The series presented here has partly been published in DNA magazine (111). Others are unique and exclusive on BeautifulMag.

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