Zivity: Exposed | Artist Feature: Sombra
Last week, I reached out to Sombra who has been an active model and photographer on the site for over 2 years. She has done almost 40 sets as a photographer and well over 80 modeling sets-- For someone so busy, I was expecting someone more...well...uber focused and some what of an activist. To my surprise, Sombra is as much laid-back and down to earth as she is beautiful and smart.
N: Tell us a little about yourself! Where did you grow up?
S: Houston, Texas
N: How has your traveling affected the way you are?
S: I have a lot of stories. I don’t mind eating strange food or hanging out with people who don’t speak a common language with me. When you have the same sort of lifestyle and living environment your whole life and when everyone around you lives and thinks the same way as you, you run the risk of losing perspective and taking stupid things too seriously. I lived in Russia and China, and spent a lot of time with my family in Venezuela. Very different places, but they reveal more commonalities than meaningful differences.
N: How did you get into modeling?
S: I needed a job while I was an undergrad. I worked as a figure model for local museums and art schools. It paid better than most other random jobs, and I liked that I could get the job by just walking in, filling out my paperwork, and telling them when I was available. Sometimes I could sleep on the job, other times I got paid to learn about art, without ever having to worry about grades. Nice job. After a few years, I realized photographers pay more. Some random photographer made me a model mayhem account or one model place, and it kind of went from there. Oh. I ended up on Maxim’s website sometime back around then, I was dating a guy into their douchtastic wonder and he was supposed to buy me some blueberry cheesecake if I sent photos to Maxim. They published them but I never got my damned cheesecake, and for this they will never be forgiven.
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