When I first began photographing female nudes in 1996 I had one goal in mind: to portray my sitters in an erotically mature way. This meant that not only would they be represented in the physical sense I would also try to get below the surface to reveal a 3rd dimension as well. In today’s digital world, this is no small task. Every day we are bombarded with images of digitally manipulated, large busted, creamy thighed avatars that have as much relation to reality as reality TV has to real life.
Artifice is the lingua franca of today.
No man can deny the allure of pure flesh, I was 15 years old once myself, but hopefully as a man ages his desires mature as well and the youthful lust so easily satisfied in his minority has grown to richer levels.
However, I’d be a liar to tell you that puerility completely vanishes as we age and that a bodacious pair of breasts cannot be just that. Sometimes they are just that and we can willingly revel in that prospect, but they are also something much more, magnificent in their ability to nurture life, the most erotic thing of all.
In this book you will see many body types and levels of beauty. Bodies with stretch marks, imperfections and the vestiges of motherhood are rendered in equal measures in an attempt to remind us that true beauty is a combination of the ephemeral and the inevitable.
This is one of the great things about photography…the real artist has the ability to stop time at the moment when the sitter’s essence is most bountiful. The body is never perfect, but what makes us human is and should never be airbrushed away.
None of these images were manipulated to lessen or distort this basic premise, that the women we marry, have children with, and build lives around are the most erotic of all and that dimensionality always trumps surface.
99% of these models were nonprofessional, regular workaday women, students, mothers, secretaries who for better of worse allowed me the honor of capturing their spirit through the interplay of shadow and light.
I was in love with every model at the moment these documents were recorded not because I craved them carnally, but without the benefit of any mutual history availed themselves to me in my attempt to create art.
Click on the photos below. Each will take you to a different area.
I hope you enjoy these photographs as much as I enjoyed making them.
Artifice is the lingua franca of today.
No man can deny the allure of pure flesh, I was 15 years old once myself, but hopefully as a man ages his desires mature as well and the youthful lust so easily satisfied in his minority has grown to richer levels.
However, I’d be a liar to tell you that puerility completely vanishes as we age and that a bodacious pair of breasts cannot be just that. Sometimes they are just that and we can willingly revel in that prospect, but they are also something much more, magnificent in their ability to nurture life, the most erotic thing of all.
In this book you will see many body types and levels of beauty. Bodies with stretch marks, imperfections and the vestiges of motherhood are rendered in equal measures in an attempt to remind us that true beauty is a combination of the ephemeral and the inevitable.
This is one of the great things about photography…the real artist has the ability to stop time at the moment when the sitter’s essence is most bountiful. The body is never perfect, but what makes us human is and should never be airbrushed away.
None of these images were manipulated to lessen or distort this basic premise, that the women we marry, have children with, and build lives around are the most erotic of all and that dimensionality always trumps surface.
99% of these models were nonprofessional, regular workaday women, students, mothers, secretaries who for better of worse allowed me the honor of capturing their spirit through the interplay of shadow and light.
I was in love with every model at the moment these documents were recorded not because I craved them carnally, but without the benefit of any mutual history availed themselves to me in my attempt to create art.
Click on the photos below. Each will take you to a different area.
I hope you enjoy these photographs as much as I enjoyed making them.
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