Photographer Jeremy Saffer has teamed up with the king and queenbeast Doyle (Misfits) and Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy) for a 2015 calendar The calendar features shots the trio done over the past few years and is available now. BraveWords scribe Carl Begai recently spoke with Saffer about how the project came about:

Saffer: “Without getting too long-winded about it, Alissa, Doyle and I have an incredible working relationship and friendship. The first time Alissa and I got to do a real photo shoot, it just clicked. Every time she’s in town we do a shoot and both love the results each time. We’ve shot together so much that I know what she likes visually, and she knows how I shoot and pose, so we work very well together. Doyle is the same way. He loved the shots from our first shoot – one of the photos is his current tour promo, and a t-shirt and a poster – and from there we’ve done a shoot each time he comes to town. We had collectively been talking about doing a big Doyle and Alissa shoot and had planned for them to come to my studio for a couple of days. We ended up doing the shoot just before the big announcement of her joining Arch Enemy. We had a few concepts and ideas, some of which came to fruition, some of which are on the backburner for now, but we basically shot for two days, ate a bunch of excellent vegan food, and had a bunch of fun.”

“The photos from this shoot have been trickling out all year; some of them were used for the Arch Enemy announcement. I’ve released my biggest print series to date; 27 prints of Alissa and Doyle which they hand signed. That print series was planned for a long time, the calendar wasn’t. The calendar was kind of a byproduct of having these photos going into print form. Suffice to say, a slew of these photos were in holding for a while, which was on purpose. We had always planned to do an autographed print series with these photos. I was doing calendars of Ash Costello, Ghost, and it popped into my mind, ‘Hey, why don’t I also do a Doyle and Alissa calendar? That would be awesome!’ I emailed them both, got a response, and from sending that email to ordering the calendar I’d say it was about 12 hours or so. It all happened very quickly.”

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Alissa White-Gluz recently issued the following statement regarding the calendar:

"One of the most rewarding things in the world is collaborating with good people across different media arts. So, I'm happy to present this awesome calendar you can get featuring the beautiful photography work of the great Jeremy Saffer. Check out his stunning portfolio of celebrity portraits; so creative!"

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