New York, NY – January 25, 2017 –New York City erotic photographer Ellen Stagg will be celebrating the release of her gorgeous, new photo book, Dirty Girl Collection, at a special signing at the Museum of Sex on Thursday, February 9 from 6pm to 9pm.

Ellen Stagg describes her work simply and directly. “I photograph women of all levels of dress and undressed,” she says when asked about the dichotomy between her erotic images, upscale fashion portraits and advertising layouts. “I love empowering women, celebrating and collaborating with them through my photography.” Stagg’s stunning new book, “Dirty Girl Collection,” published by German imprint Goliath Books, features 420 photos she’s taken over the past decade and published on her website staggstreet.com. A prime showcase for her work, it’s sexy, playful, alluring and empowering.

Dirty Girl Collection features some of Stagg’s favorite, high-profile models that include cover girl Justine Joli and adult entertainers Heather Vandeven, Kendra James, Joanna Angel, Jade Vixen, Skin Diamond, Stormy Leather, Nikki Benz, Charlotte Stokely, Aria Giovanni, Kayla Paige and dozens more.

The Museum of Sex is located at 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 and you may follow them on their website http://www.museumofsex.com/category/events/ and you may follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/museumofsex.

Doors open at 5pm and there is no cover charge to attend this event. Copies of Dirty Girl Collection will be available for purchase and Stagg will be available for autographs and photographs.

Dirty Girl Collection is also available for sale on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Girl-Collection-English-Goliath/dp/3957300150/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485368669&sr=1-1&keywords=ellen+stagg.

Fans may follow Ellen Stagg’s work at www.StaggStreet.com and at https://www.patreon.com/EllenStagg and you may follow her on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/ellenstagg and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ellenstagg/.

About Ellen Stagg

Galore Magazine said of her Stagg work, “…Ellen Stagg isn’t what you might call a ‘creative’–the term entrepreneurial millennials are using these days to describe themselves where other words fail. Stagg is the real deal.”

Stagg’s lifelong interest in photography began in during her junior year of high school in Connecticut, when she enrolled in a senior level photography course back in 1994. Her talents were recognized by her high school with an award of accomplishment for photography. The school created a senior advanced placement course just for her. She then went on to college, attending the prestigious School of Visual Arts, graduating with a BFA in Photography in 2000. At the end of her junior year at SVA, Stagg signed with her first agent and immediately began shooting commercially for magazines, advertising, fashion and other exclusive clientele. A professional for the past 18 years, her fashion and commercial work has appeared in some of the most-read magazines in the world, including Life, Vibe, Interview, Maxim, Flaunt, I-D and Teen Vogue. It has also been featured in film and television as well. Her subjects, drawn from the world of acting, music and sports, include such notables as Scarlett Johansson , Moby, Tony Hawk, Heidi Fleiss, Redman, Good Charlotte  and Geena Rocero. A complete list of her clients can be found at EllenStagg.com The turning point in her career came in 2005 when she met porn star and actress Justine Joli. Joli was searching for a photographer to create additional content for her website. Stagg was hired and was immediately taken with her subject’s free spirit. Through Joli, she met other women from the adult industry and continued to explore more erotic subject matter, but she ran into difficulty while looking for places where she could showcase her work. Deemed too “porn” for her commercial work and too “artsy” for porn sites, she opted to start her own website, Staggstreet.com. It brought her far more notoriety than she had ever achieved with her commercial photography and opened doors for television work and art exhibits.

Stagg was spotlighted in a ten-episode web series shot by The Independent Film Channel called “The Stagg Party”. Filmed and directed by Joe Swanberg, the series was shot in Brooklyn and Los Angeles and received critical kudos, prompting the L.A. Times to say, “With its rampant nudity and non-judgmental adult industry theme, the voyeuristic web hordes will love it. But the show’s soft-touch intelligence and compelling characters give it depth.” She then moved on to shoot/produce and star in 2 seasons of Playboy TV’s “Badass,” where she photographed models doing bad ass activities like cliff diving, riding a horse, driving a tracker all in the nude while Stagg interviewed them. Stagg also starred in “Behind the Lens” for Karmaloop-TV, shooting and interviewing her models, including  Stoya, Lily Labeau, Shay Laren, Kacie Marie and more.

KarmaloopTV.com Stagg has exhibited at art galleries around the world with her fine art film images. She has shown her work at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ, since 2008. Her first solo show was at Fuse Gallery in 2010.

Other noted galleries and Museums, Stephen Romano, Morbid Anatomy, Gallery, Brooklyn, Mighty Tanaka, Scope Art Fair, Art Directors Club (Young Guns 3) and more listed in attached CV. For all her accomplishments, here again Stagg sums her efforts up succinctly: “I’m a feminist artist and with my work, I want to support women. Every size and body type, I want to lift them up and make them feel beautiful and empowered.”