BurningAngel, starring Joanna Angel, was launched as a response to websites such as which website founded in 2001 by Selena Mooney that revolves around pin-up photography sets of models and provides paying customers access to images provided by models and photographers worldwide?
Joanna Angel Joanna Angel (born December 25, 1980) is a Jewish American alternative pornographic and mainstream actress, director, and writer of adult films. She is best known for starting BurningAngel in April, 2002 with her flatmate Mitch Fontaine, and has been credited with helping the 'alt-porn' scene grow and develop in industry. Launched as a response to websites such as SuicideGirls, it featured alternative performers acting in exclusively hardcore scenes with a stronger focus on a punk aesthetic.
Elizabeth Moran (photographer) Elizabeth Moran (born 1984) is an American photographer. Her work explores unseen and possibly unexplained pasts, as well as photographing what could be considered unphotographable. She has created photo series examining such subject matter as porn film sets depicted without any people present, and the exploration of supernatural activity, particularly around her mother's childhood home. Kink.com founder Peter Acworth, who welcomed Moran into the company's studios in The Armory, spoke positively of Moran's depictions, saying that her approach "shows that behind all the fantasy of the Kink is a world that is, in many ways, very normal." Her work exploring supernatural activity, which includes references to nineteenth-century “spirit photography,” caught the attention of ghost hunters who would consult with her on the possible validity of suspected photographs of ghosts.