Artist Statement
I made my first nude image over 40 years ago. It was 1977 and I was a young photography student. My partner reclined on her battered old wood desk and that was our first nude image. I still have the negative and she still has the desk.
It was a typical nude image for the time, a partial torso of an attractive young woman discretely posed. It would be a typical nude image for today too. The general depiction of nudity in art hasn't change much in the intervening years. I try to do something different.
Since that time we’ve shot a lot of nudes. At times life interfered, jobs and kids take up a lot of time, but there weren’t many months in those forty years that we haven’t shot something.
It’s been a journey and it’s not over yet. There’s more to come. Perhaps another 40 years of nude images.
Process Statement
I find it helpful to have a theme and then I work it to death. I’m usually working on a couple of projects concurrently. Some projects start serendipitously in the middle of another. It just hits you, that would be a great image, and then the model gets confused because suddenly the lights are moving and the photographer is upside down on the floor and asking for a weird change to the pose. And the first image of a new project is made.
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