Modern Photography

Adrian Portmann










Jenny Hands










Jamie Nelson










Elisabeth Hoff










Teiiko

Lloyd Hughes

Lloyd Hugues

Flowers and legs










"Hand amongst flowers"

Edoardo Pasero joins us

You may admire his work at : IRISF64, Art Limited, Flickr, ALTphotos, Trigger Images, F-Stop Magazine.

Edoardo Pasero is born in 1978, lives in Milano, Italy, and prints all his stuff in his darkroom.

Don't look for more, there is nothing else about him, except his wonderful work sorted in four main categories : Daily Prophecies, Flowers, Nudes and Portraits, each one full of pictures with a strong and original "abstract" style that I could'nt miss to admire.

While I was choosing the fine art nude pictures to illustrate his first feature, my favorites of course, I have noted four things (beyond his awesome talent...) : Edoardo Pasero is working mainly in B&W and blue tones, he avoids to title his photos and he focuses on body parts and faceless compositions, what gives us an amazing and very intimate work that I find quite powerful.

Two comments that perfectly describe his talent :

" Each and every image mystifies and amazes... Edoardo is a true artist with a singular vision of excellence, from composition to process and technique, I am always in awe and inspired to look deeper into my own work. Thank you Edoardo !"


"Fascinating, unexpected, brilliant, beautiful, subtle. I always look forward to his posts. He's a treasure."

Edoardo Pasero ©

Alexey Aloisov

Alexey Aloisov

"Uninvited guest"
Art Model Julia





"Let me out"

"Smoking..."

Vahid Naziri, The Table Series

Vahid Naziri

"Forbidden Fruits"
Art Model Mallory

"Orchids in B and W"
Art Model Mallory










"Glass Half Empty"
Art Model Mallory

William Charpe

You'll find William Charpe at his MySpace, deviantArt, his blog, Art Limited, Fotothing, his interview.

"Pin up on paper"
Made with Vivenrican, Labirynth, Daniela Illing, Tutestock

"Malibu girl"
Made with Tanna Ray

"Color of love"

Philip Lecomte is with us

Philip Lecomte at Phil's Beauties, this site, and this one, Glamour Modeles, deviantART, a huge gallery at Photo Competition,

Nicole










Lenka

Nude photographer from Paris, France, "photographe de charme" as we say, Philip Lecomte makes powerful and sensual pictures.

Always working with wonderful models, Philip reminds me the beautiful works of his friend Mic Ardant (check his interview) that reveal the pure erotism of the female body with taste, and strength.

Suzana










Angy

Marco Barsanti, first feature

" Today, the most beautiful sensation that comes to me from being a photographer, is the continual experience of discovery, almost a gift somewhat as an indescribable journey within the essence of what I was photographing and the beauty of my surroundings." Marco Barsanti

"Portrait of Elisa"
Calafuria coast, Tuscany

You'll find Marco Barsanti at : his official site, Saatchi Gallery, Gente di Fotografia, arte.go, l'objet trouvé, LiberaEva.

Marco Barsanti makes an outstanding work ! Mainly in black and white, and sepia, mostly outdoors with natural light, his pictures turn me upside down !

You know how much I love woman in nature... So you can easily understand how much I'm impressed and admirative when I contemplated his work for the first time.

I'm already impatient to know everything about such a talented artist that I'm honoured to welcome in these pages.

"Nude"
near Pontito, Tuscany

"Nude 13"
Nude in Casentinesi Forests

"Nude"
Selva di Chiara, Tuscany













I started to dedicate myself to photography at the beginning of the 80’s as an autodidactic. Then, experiences in the United States helped me to achieve a deeper understanding of photography and to improve the knowledge that I had at that time.

In 1994, a seminar with photographers like John Sexton and Morley Bear stimulated me to explore the contents of photographic language from a wider point of view.

"Nude"
Torrente Lima, Tuscany

The landscapes of Tuscany, the place where I was born, has slowly become the main subject of my pictures.

Looking through its nature I discovered the beauty that lies behind small things. Therefore I tried to show in my pictures that a single subject like a rock or a tree can have different types of interpretation.

Now I feel something special when I portray the harmony of human form inside the landscapes ; female body as an expression of beauty and sensuality, evocates my feelings for belonging and fusion with nature. The nude becomes the primary dress, a symbol of our indissoluble bonds with land and its elements.

"Nude"
near Colognora, Tuscany

Today I dedicate myself to the teaching of the techniques and Historical aspects of photography.
In past years and currently, I collaborate with the Italian magazine “Gente di Fotografia”.

"Nude on a block of marble"
near Arni, Tuscany

Lloyd Hugues is with us

He's special, he's inspired, he's gifted, beyond the "photographically" correct, always authentic and so original. Here is Lloyd Hughes.

"Mary one"
Model Mary






You'll find Lloyd Hugues at deviantART, his live-journal, MySpace,

From his site :

Lloyd Hughes was born in the relatively small Australian city of Perth, and it is here that he continues to reside.

He took a keen interest in photography when he picked up his fathers old polaroid camera and his even older 35mm film slr camera. With these dusty and rusty pieces of equipment, he experimented with the magic and power of film and out of this grew a strong passion for photography that continues to grow to this very day.

"Morning after"
Model Hayley

Although having had no formal training in photography, this has allowed Lloyd to be free of any rules and regulations and has allowed him to harbour unrestricted creativity out of real raw life experiences rather than sterile classroom taught information.

His work is often described as strangely and interestingly cropped and composed, bursting with eye-catching colour, having a touch of innocence, a touch of retro, new and fresh, but above all visually stimulating.

Lloyds main aim with photography is to continuely push himself to new and exciting boundries and to experiment with this vast artistic medium.

"The crow is waiting"
Model Tegan

His difficulties with the critiques :

"Looking in"
Model Kittin

I think the whole critiquing photography/art thing is absurd.
It's easy to critique mathematics. A teacher can critique a students mathematics by simply using a calculator which gives out definate numerical answers. It's simply wrong or right.

People seem to bring this mind set to photography though which is impossible because it's not about numbers, it's about emotion, and there are no definitive right and wrong answers to emotion. It's not robotic.

When people judge a photo they can either like it, hate it, love it but the important question in all of this is why ?

"Coffee seven"
Model Tegan











Why do people tell me they love a particular photo of mine in a series and others tell me it's shit and me personally think that there are better photos in the series ? The answer I believe is life experiences.

We have to all realise that the way we feel about a photo says more about you rather than the photographer.

People constantly tell me what they think is wrong with my photography, what would have been better, but this comes from a self-centred place in which their own personal visual pleasures have to be gratified. I want my photos to be about me, not about you and your preferences. If you hate the fact that the model looks void of emotion, then maybe this is what I wanted, maybe this actually says something about me as a person, as a photographer, as a human with my own life experiences.

"Black bench one"
Model Tegan










"Black bench two"
Model Tegan

If I asked everyone to take a photo of what life means to them, everyone isn't going to have exactly the same photo. Some will have perfect photos, some will have imperfect photos, some will show pain, others laughter, and in a critique of all these photos the person who took a photo of the beautiful flowers in a perfect forest with people holding hands wearing flawless make-up will likely be critiqued to hell by those who took photos of people suffering and dying in some war-torn country where the make-up is worn not to look stunning but to camouflage and blend in with the surrounds. But neither photo is right or wrong, they just come from different minds.

"Libby 3"
Model Libby

If a 2 year old took an imperfect photo of a cat you wouldn't tell them it looks like shit. You wouldn't say "hey this would have looked so much better if you followed the rule of thirds and exposed for the highlights. And there's absolutely no detail in these shadows. Oh and cats ? I'm so over photos of cats !"

For me I would look at this photo and smile and say "Your view of this cat and how you captured it comes from a place where everything around you looks amazing, everything is beautiful. I wish I could see this cat through your eyes. When you grow up I hope you look at this photo and rememeber how it was."

I guess the whole point of this is to remember that when you're critiquing someones photography just realise that their photos are about them and not about you and what you think will make the photo look better in your own eyes.

"Floating on a sea of envy"

"Leaves four"
Model Mary














I'm not saying to stop giving me critiques, far from it, but if you want to voice your opinion on my photography tell me how the photo makes you feel emotionally, tell me why you feel this way, tell me about your life experiences, try to connect with me on an emotional level, but remember, don't tell me to change my photography because I won't. It's what makes me me, and not you.

Maybe if you started each critique with "from my own life experiences and my own emotions, I think this photo would appeal to my own personal taste more if..." Haha it sounds stupid but...