Color and texture radically influence how we perceive shapes. While looking for an innovative approach on a 1995 Miami photo shoot, photographic master Guido Argentini was moved to coat a model in silver makeup. The result was as beautiful as it was intriguing - the subtly grayish tones highlighted angles...
Marta Kochanek: Cognitive Bodies
The aim of the project was to capture a very sensual collaboration of the human’s body and extreme emotions that expresses both the physical and spiritual harmony. It was to immortalise the beauty of shape, the purity of art and the uniqueness of existence. Photographer’s job was to emotionally connect with the sitters...
Carl Warner: Body Landscapes
A selection of images by Carl Warner creating landscapes from the human form. An alternative portrait of a human being whose body becomes a landscape of themselves and plays on the sense of space in which we dwell. The external view of ourselves therefore becomes a more abstract and perhaps...
Pavel Samokhvalov: Nudes
Pavel Samokhvalov is a Moscow-based photographer. He studied Scandinavian history but dropped his studies to play rock in a band of contemporary academic musicians. He then left the band to study black and white cinematography at the Moscow Film Institute. At this point, he started working with Russian glossy magazines...
Neil Craver: Omni-Phantasmic
*Omni-1. A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent; omnivorous. *Phantasmic-1. Something apparently seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or an apparition. Also called phantasma.2. An illusory mental image. Also called phantasma.3. In Platonic philosophy, objective reality as perceived and distorted by the five senses. This project is meant...
PhotoBiography: Neil Craver
As a youth in North Carolina; I begun my path as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor; my motivation grew from my interest of psychophysical effects of chroma. Photography holds all the intrinsic values of all the other arts; but differers in the fact the it’s the foundation of existence....
Interview with Nude photographer Olivier Valsecchi
Olivier Valsecchi was born in Paris in 1979. His work has been published and exhibited around Europe, the US, and Asia. After winning a Hasselblad Masters award for his stunning portrait series Dust, he created Klecksography in 2012. His new Drifting series is a journey through art history where each...
Interview with Nude photographer Martin Wieland
Martin Wieland was born in 1970, studied at the Graphic Arts in Vienna. At the age of 14 he decided to follow in his fathers footsteps to become a professional photographer as well. Since 1997 specialized in nude and erotic photography. His strength lies in the communication with the model,...