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Joey Kim feels a sense of nostalgia when she enters the weekly photo contests on AVN
Stars. The three-day competitions—which are decided by fan voting—entail sharing a
personal photo based on the contest theme for that weekend.
“I really enjoy that a lot because it feels a lot like back when I was in school and I would
have photo assignments,” says Kim, who studied photography at Parsons School of Design
in New York.
“And for me having a topic always helped me in my creative expression because it kind
of gave me a bit of a direction. I feel like it challenges me to be creative every month.”
Kim won the “Winter Vibes” contest on January 15 with a stunning semi-nude, black-
and-white image of herself on a rocky shoreline in Marseille, France, receiving the $750 first
prize. For “Ring in the New Year” she shared a gif of her removing her bra while wearing
a cardboard party hat, earning $600 for second place. And for her winning “Naughty or
Nice” entry on Christmas weekend, she submitted a kinky striptease gif in front of a burning
fireplace.
Our March cover model, who shot the images herself in the sand dunes on the Canary
Islands in Spain, tells me she has felt a strong sense of community on AVN Stars—the
subscription-based platform designed for adult creators.
“I feel like I’ve made a lot of new friends,” she says.
Now Kim not only is working on building out JoeyKim.tv, she also is developing a sister
site called MuseLink, “where I would host some of my favorite performers who inspire me.”
“And I see it being almost like an online burlesque theater,” Kim says. “JKTV is going
to be the site where I will basically be testing all my new features, and where I’ll be more
experimental. And MuseLink is where I will host other performers’ solo sites and create
MuseLink Academy, which is where I want to have these performers also teach courses.
“So that we would be kind of cultivating this community, where we are sharing our
experiences and our knowledge, and really like co-elevating. So that I’m really excited about.”
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