Eternal Nymphets
Opening:
2000
Closing:
2002
Country:
Ukraine
Number of models:
64 (approximately); girls: 64 (approximately)
Persons involved
 | Alexander Fradis
founder, criminal |
 | Daniel Leuenberger
founder |
 | Alina /Alina little/
model |
 | Alina /Alina middle/
model |
 | Aljona /Aljona middle/
model |
 | Anja /Anja little/
model |
 | Dina /Dina little/
model |
 | Ira
model |
 | Ira /Ira sunshine/
model |
 | Katia /Katia little/
model |
 | Kristina /Kristina big/
model |
 | Lena /Lena big/
model |
 | Luba /Luba big/
model |
 | Marianna
model |
 | Natasha /Natasha middle/
model |
 | Olia /Olia middle/
model |
 | Sveta /Sveta middle/
model |
 | Vika
model |
 | Vika /Vika little/
model |
 | Ira Gladcova
model |
 | Valentina Gladcova
model |
Eternal Nymphets, also known as EN, based in Ukraine, was an online subscription service and photography studio that created thousands of photographic images of young teen and prepubescent girls, and sold them via the Internet from late 2000 to February 2002.
The studio was set up in early 2000 with Swiss funding with the idea of Alexander Fradis being the photographer and main model finder in Moldova (where most the girls come from). The swiss financiers, which included Daniel Leuenberger, first noticed Fradis when he had an exhibit in Germany. He was already semi-famous for artistic early teen nudes between 1996-2001. Fradis had three personal exhibitions in Munich (1997-1998), in Moscow (1998), ... in Chisinau (1997), and in Odessa. Alexander Fradis and Daniel Leuenberger set up the website and studio under the business name Studio 13 Arts.
"In November-December 1999 I got acquainted through Internet with Alexander Fradis (I was greatly impressed by his exhibition photos), who lived in Munich with his spouse Monica Gisler and his two children. We met each other personally only in 2000. It was at that time that we decided to establish an art project – “Studio-13”. Fradis was poor as a church mouse, and I promised him that I would invest money into this idea. He managed to get financing from other sponsors too. I know that for the first time Alexander visited Odessa in September 1999. After that he visited Ukraine more than once, later on he invited me as well.”
-Daniel Leuenberger
This is how the creators of the studio introduced themselves on the website.
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The story of Studio 13 began many years ago. Our photographer Sasha was very fascinated by David Hamilton and Jock Sturges, to tell just a few.
In 1996 he started his first shootings and some of his works has been exibited in galeries in Russia and Germany. Also a TV documentation about his work has been published on the russian television. Many shooting serias from him has been rated in different medias and he won the first place with his pictures in many photographical competitions.
The first contact between Sasha and Damiells was in 1999. But the plans for a website has only be realised after a meeting in june 2000. The website has been called Eternal Nymphets and nobody expected to have any earnings or success.
After the first release of the exclusive pictures, the site suddently was a legend and we had overnight 30 millions visitors and high earnings. In september 2000 Sasha and Damiells decided to use this money to help and build a future for the families and specially the girls. The official Studio 13 project was born.
After a few weeks preparation of the definitive concept, the new companies to secure the future of the girls has been founded in november 2000.
Since this time we are working to establish this companies and finish to write the software for the internet applications. And during this time we have started oyr educational program for the girls in computer technology.
In a few weeks, our companies will be ready for the worldwide market and the future costumers will be supported by a team of (older) young girls and some specialists. And if we have the expected success with our companies, we'll be a part of thoose peoples that changed the world.
Hundreds of jobs will be created during the next years and with our services, we will revolutionize the internet.
Studio 13 is not a project like every other. Studio 13 is something very special and certainly the most controversial art project in the world.
In today's atmosphere of mass paranoia in reference to any notion of child or teenage nudity or eroticism our Studio 13 is an answer to all hypocrits who loudly scream about children's rights, but do absolutely nothing to help those kids to survive.
Studio 13 is more than only making nude or nonude artistic productions. In countries of this world where kids have no future and sometimes no family to care about them, Studio 13 cares about whatever we can do.
The difference between Studio 13 and many photographers is that we work with a team of same girls over many years. Studio 13 is an educational center that teaches in photography, posing, choreography and computer technology.
Studio 13 is the place where creativity of artists joins with spirituality of "chosen creatures" (whom V.Nabokov proposed to designate as nymphets) for producing magical images with the noble purpose to make time freeze.
Girls affiliated with Studio 13 are very usual and very special at the same time. They go to school, read books, listen to all kinds of music, quarrel with their parents (if they have) and tease the boys from around the corner. Not some Barby-like dolls, but perfectly alive and natural, they share just one particular thing: their AURA distingishing them from the rest of the girly crowd.
At Studio 13 we would like to creatively study this nymphet phenomenon and produce more and more highly artistic, tastefully provocative and still legal images of our young girls on a regular basis. The income generated by Studio 13 is used to support the studio and its wonderful girls and thoose families (clothes, nutrition, education, health, etc.).
In countries where families with parents and two kids have to share one room to live, one bed to sleep and one appartement with 5 other families and sometimes don't have any ressources to get the money for food, life is more like a survival training.
Situations are sometimes so desparate, that 6 years old kids have to make prostitution on the streets and sometimes kids never come back home again. Never money from care organisations has reached this countries and nobody cares about what happen.
Because families don't have intimacy and have to share the daily life with many other peoples, nudity is something normal and natural for this kids. In the winter time they don't have control over the power of heaters. In many rooms you can only live light clothed or unclothed because its too hot. But anyway, public nudity is considered differently as in so called "civilisated countries". Nudity is something normal and part of the daily life. For this reasons, our girls are never shy to be nude and like to be unclothed at home. Shy is not natural but fabricated by religions, medias and education.
At Studio 13 we have strong believes and our philosophy.
We promote and fight for :
- better care of children against physical, sexual and psychological abuse
- enhance the self-authority and independance of children concerning the choice how to live and believes.
- the right of education without violence (against any corporal punishments)
- the right to be educated depending the needs and interests
- education that promotes tolerance, responsability, self initiative, honesty and against racism and fashism
- enhance the creativity and the skills
- the freedom of free artistical speech according the First Amendement of most countries.
The story of Studio 13 began many years ago. Our photographer Sasha was very fascinated by David Hamilton and Jock Sturges, to tell just a few.
In 1996 he started his first shootings and some of his works has been exibited in galeries in Russia and Germany. Also a TV documentation about his work has been published on the russian television. Many shooting serias from him has been rated in different medias and he won the first place with his pictures in many photographical competitions.
The first contact between Sasha and Damiells was in 1999. But the plans for a website has only be realised after a meeting in june 2000. The website has been called Eternal Nymphets and nobody expected to have any earnings or success.
After the first release of the exclusive pictures, the site suddently was a legend and we had overnight 30 millions visitors and high earnings. In september 2000 Sasha and Damiells decided to use this money to help and build a future for the families and specially the girls. The official Studio 13 project was born.
After a few weeks preparation of the definitive concept, the new companies to secure the future of the girls has been founded in november 2000.
Since this time we are working to establish this companies and finish to write the software for the internet applications. And during this time we have started oyr educational program for the girls in computer technology.
In a few weeks, our companies will be ready for the worldwide market and the future costumers will be supported by a team of (older) young girls and some specialists. And if we have the expected success with our companies, we'll be a part of thoose peoples that changed the world.
Hundreds of jobs will be created during the next years and with our services, we will revolutionize the internet.
Studio 13 is not a project like every other. Studio 13 is something very special and certainly the most controversial art project in the world.
In today's atmosphere of mass paranoia in reference to any notion of child or teenage nudity or eroticism our Studio 13 is an answer to all hypocrits who loudly scream about children's rights, but do absolutely nothing to help those kids to survive.
Studio 13 is more than only making nude or nonude artistic productions. In countries of this world where kids have no future and sometimes no family to care about them, Studio 13 cares about whatever we can do.
The difference between Studio 13 and many photographers is that we work with a team of same girls over many years. Studio 13 is an educational center that teaches in photography, posing, choreography and computer technology.
Studio 13 is the place where creativity of artists joins with spirituality of "chosen creatures" (whom V.Nabokov proposed to designate as nymphets) for producing magical images with the noble purpose to make time freeze.
Girls affiliated with Studio 13 are very usual and very special at the same time. They go to school, read books, listen to all kinds of music, quarrel with their parents (if they have) and tease the boys from around the corner. Not some Barby-like dolls, but perfectly alive and natural, they share just one particular thing: their AURA distingishing them from the rest of the girly crowd.
At Studio 13 we would like to creatively study this nymphet phenomenon and produce more and more highly artistic, tastefully provocative and still legal images of our young girls on a regular basis. The income generated by Studio 13 is used to support the studio and its wonderful girls and thoose families (clothes, nutrition, education, health, etc.).
In countries where families with parents and two kids have to share one room to live, one bed to sleep and one appartement with 5 other families and sometimes don't have any ressources to get the money for food, life is more like a survival training.
Situations are sometimes so desparate, that 6 years old kids have to make prostitution on the streets and sometimes kids never come back home again. Never money from care organisations has reached this countries and nobody cares about what happen.
Because families don't have intimacy and have to share the daily life with many other peoples, nudity is something normal and natural for this kids. In the winter time they don't have control over the power of heaters. In many rooms you can only live light clothed or unclothed because its too hot. But anyway, public nudity is considered differently as in so called "civilisated countries". Nudity is something normal and part of the daily life. For this reasons, our girls are never shy to be nude and like to be unclothed at home. Shy is not natural but fabricated by religions, medias and education.
At Studio 13 we have strong believes and our philosophy.
We promote and fight for :
- better care of children against physical, sexual and psychological abuse
- enhance the self-authority and independance of children concerning the choice how to live and believes.
- the right of education without violence (against any corporal punishments)
- the right to be educated depending the needs and interests
- education that promotes tolerance, responsability, self initiative, honesty and against racism and fashism
- enhance the creativity and the skills
- the freedom of free artistical speech according the First Amendement of most countries.
Young models of Studio 13 Arts visit cinema. 2001.Eternal Nymphets had at least 64 models, including Alina Nijelskaia, Doina Sirbu, Aliona Rassolova, Ira Gladcova (troublemaker), Valentina Gladcova, Katia Lisniciek, Katia Tashi, Kristina Apertri, Kristina Shchiopu, Oliga Dovganiuk, Romina Juravskaia, Sveta Muntean, Nastia Muntean, Sabina Muntean, Sveta Voitetcaia, Sveta Youngol, and Valentina Ursaky. There are between 381 to 384 nude known sets, ranging from Fradis's exibition pictures from 1998-1999 to the last ones in early 2002. The location of many of these sets is Europe, Ukraine, near the coastal resort of Odessa.
Sometime after this, Leuenberger and Fradis had a falling out. There are various reasons given for this, including
Leuenberger did not like the way Fradis was treating the models and had problems with Fradis himself. Fradis let the girls smoke in the house, the house was dirty and unkept, and Leuenberger alleged that Fradis was abusing drugs and offering to sleep with some of the models.
Leuenberger started getting into photography, and somehow found the edgier photographs that Fradis had taken but not shared with the rest of the group or published. Fradis eventually published some of these in Lolita Arts and Lolita Dreams, along others.
There was a division over where the photography was going. Fradis wanted to do edgier (i.e. more explicit) stuff and the others (espcially the swiss guy bankrolling it and afraid of legal consequences) did not.
Fradis and Leuenbergers operations began unraveling when some of the girls they were transporting from Chisinau to be photographed were intercepted by authorities.
Here is the testimony of one of the underage models, obtained by investigators.
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However, the girls said that they were paid 25-50$ by two foreigners named Alexander and Daniel for being photo- and videoshooted naked.
She told me that Sasha sleeps with Rina (whose 11-years old), though he is many years older that she is, and his looks are just terrible. In some time I saw myself how everything went on…The girls said that Sasha was a finished drug addict. The drugs were kept in a two-storeyed mansion in Sasha’s room where the computers were. The high fence was covered with wire, at the entrance gate – some kind of a TV-set, and through it the picture went into Sasha’s room. Four guards, who worked in shifts, lived in the one-storeyed house”.
Then came Daniel who spoke very bad Russian. We hardly understood that we had to be photographed in those poses which they would tell us – our pictures would be displayed at the exhibitions and placed in foreign magazines. He also said nobody had to and won’t know what we were doing. And for this job we would be paid good money.
“Lisa had her pictures taken in all poses she was “ordered”, said Lana. “Even the way you could see everything… I was photographed in a sheet (beneath I was naked) with the music on. After some time I got used to that, and started letting it down a little, and then let it down at all… Honestly, I felt greatly ashamed, but they would pay such money which my mother wouldn’t get in a year!
Usually we stayed at Sasha’s for two-three days (from Friday till Sunday). After we’ve satisfied all his demands he would give us 50 dollars”.
“Sasha used to offer me cigarettes, wine, drugs. Once he gave me a pack of pills, about six, without any name on it and said, “Take it and have fun. You’ll be jolly, free, and you can do whatever you want to. It’s nice and pleasant…” I answered, I was fine without it. I tried a cigarette – I didn’t like it. I got a proposal to “have some love” from a guard, a former militiaman…”
However, the girls said that they were paid 25-50$ by two foreigners named Alexander and Daniel for being photo- and videoshooted naked.
She told me that Sasha sleeps with Rina (whose 11-years old), though he is many years older that she is, and his looks are just terrible. In some time I saw myself how everything went on…The girls said that Sasha was a finished drug addict. The drugs were kept in a two-storeyed mansion in Sasha’s room where the computers were. The high fence was covered with wire, at the entrance gate – some kind of a TV-set, and through it the picture went into Sasha’s room. Four guards, who worked in shifts, lived in the one-storeyed house”.
Then came Daniel who spoke very bad Russian. We hardly understood that we had to be photographed in those poses which they would tell us – our pictures would be displayed at the exhibitions and placed in foreign magazines. He also said nobody had to and won’t know what we were doing. And for this job we would be paid good money.
“Lisa had her pictures taken in all poses she was “ordered”, said Lana. “Even the way you could see everything… I was photographed in a sheet (beneath I was naked) with the music on. After some time I got used to that, and started letting it down a little, and then let it down at all… Honestly, I felt greatly ashamed, but they would pay such money which my mother wouldn’t get in a year!
Usually we stayed at Sasha’s for two-three days (from Friday till Sunday). After we’ve satisfied all his demands he would give us 50 dollars”.
“Sasha used to offer me cigarettes, wine, drugs. Once he gave me a pack of pills, about six, without any name on it and said, “Take it and have fun. You’ll be jolly, free, and you can do whatever you want to. It’s nice and pleasant…” I answered, I was fine without it. I tried a cigarette – I didn’t like it. I got a proposal to “have some love” from a guard, a former militiaman…”
In March of 2001 the two partners split. Fradis went off with a bunch of models (such as Gladcova sisters, Irina (sunshine) and her older sister Lena, Vika, and their mostly single mothers) who stayed loyal to him and he started doing sites like Astral Nymphets and commission work for other sites. He apparently managed to take down the Eternal Nymphets website for a while and sell the pictures on his own website, as well as releasing some of his unpublished one to other websites. Leuenberger tried reporting him to the police for the seizure of the website, but its unknown what became of that.
Leuenberger eventually got control of the Eternal Nymphets website again. EN and EA continued being run by the Leuenberger and his entourage and eventually those sites closed in February 2002 when the sites were seized by the police for child pornography. Leuenberger reopened the Eternal Nymphets website sometime in late 2002, but exclusively did tasteful non-nude photography of the models from that point to avoid further legal troubles. He continued to update the site with pictures of the same models until 2004. After that he used the website for pictures from the Swiss Arts models websites that were no longer being updated. Finally in 2007 the site was shut down, along with all the Swiss Arts websites.
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Nastia Muntean
Eternal Nymphets (model)
Younger sister of Sveta Muntean. Older sister of Sabina Muntean.
Eternal Nymphets (model)
Younger sister of Sveta Muntean. Older sister of Sabina Muntean.
Our comment
Initially, the photographs that the studio produced and sold, although not of great artistic value, were little different from those that can be seen on nudist sites or in the albums of David Hamilton or Jock Sturges. Later, Alexander Fradis began to take more and more explicit photos with models of Studio 13 Arts for other sites. The legality of many of them is questionable. Alexander Fradis was never brought to justice, now lives in Moldova, is fond of mountaineering, judging by his photos on Instagram.
Initially, the photographs that the studio produced and sold, although not of great artistic value, were little different from those that can be seen on nudist sites or in the albums of David Hamilton or Jock Sturges. Later, Alexander Fradis began to take more and more explicit photos with models of Studio 13 Arts for other sites. The legality of many of them is questionable. Alexander Fradis was never brought to justice, now lives in Moldova, is fond of mountaineering, judging by his photos on Instagram.
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added: 2024 November, 18 | modified: 2024 November, 22
