Univers d'Artistes: Vic self-portraitist

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January 4, 2013

Vic's interview of a self-portaitist

" My way to create ? Instinct, mood, availability. When I start, I forget notion of time... I need silence when working on pictures." Vic

"Pink attitude - What's up ?"

Vic also at deviantART.

"The unknown"

Vic, I've read so many compliments about your gallery : "Incredible, awesome, amazing, wonderful, inspired, fascinating", etc... Did you study photography in an art school ?

No… That's a huge regret by the way.

Don't regret ! You didn't need. Who inspired you ?

Too many talented people to mention them all but nobody in particular.

"Death of the Swan"

"Sorrow"

"Free me"

I feel a deep passion in your work... How long could you be far from your camera ?

It's never far enough to miss it.

I was sure ! Except indoors shootings, is there another type of location which could appeal you ?

Not really. Not yet !

So, you clearly prefer to shoot indoors, and natural lights...

I always use natural lights (okay, because of the lack of material too...). Most of my pictures are made in my appartment close to windows. Color or BW choice is decided later.

Some words about your models ? So about yourself as a self-portraitist ?...

I'm often my own model, not really because of narcissism but principally because I'm the most available and cheapest model I know.

My lovely daughter takes part to the game too but it is sometimes not so easy to manage her in another way than the fashion one (she's 18 years old, that's probably normal).

"La Femme Bleue"

"Dreamer"

A lot of your pictures are surreal, abstract or conceptual, full of symbols to resume. What is your process of creation ? Where do you find this endless inspiration ?

Instinct, mood, availability. When I start, I forget notion of time... I need silence when working on pictures.

"Entre ciel et terre"

Self-portraiture is a difficult exercise. How do you feel at the end of a shooting ?

Sometimes my body aches, but it is so exciting to load pictures immediately after on PC and to play with, that it compensates a lot.

"Ghosts dancing"
Model Nastassia

Like a large majority of artists, could you tell you're perfectionist ?

Depending on the wanted result, I should not call it corrections only. I often use textures and/or backgrounds to improve pictures' ambiance. I can't interrupt myself when working but I do not come back on it when it's done. If it is ok, that's cool. If it is not, next one, I'll try to make it better !

"I lost my heart"

Is there a special project you're dreaming about ?

No particular project at this time but

I wish I could quit my job to something more fun : arts... Photo, painting, sculpture, collage, etc.

I can imagine... Have you scheduled your next exhibition ?

None.

No book published yet, I suppose ?

No, not even a diary.

"The bride of the pirate"

What's for your next future ?

Work to buy more photography equipment.

A message to send ?

I am a real alive paradox, a woman impossible to summarize... Thank you Chris.

Thank you Vic ! Come back soon...

"Thank you"

August 10, 2009

French Photographers

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January 16, 2009

My tribute to the women photographers

Despite Ruth Bernhard, Bettina Rheims, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann or Ellen von Unwerth, the women's contributions to the artistic nude photography is under-recognized.

Beyond the traditional and stupid cultural resistances they still face with strength and passion, they make an incredible work, bringing us the very best with grace and harmony.

Lara Jade -

"Lady Of The Lake"
Art Model Dollybeck -

The women photographers devoted to fine art nude photography show us a rare emotional force and the sensual (rarely sexual) beauty of the woman as seen through the feminine eyes.

Soft or rude, abstract, conceptual or figurative, their photographs have a particular sense, often symbolic and always full of a poetry I admire without moderation.

Minon -

"Paris, no III"
Self portrait

The second thing is that the number of women photographers working on the male nude is far less than the number of women photographers shooting the female nude. Maybe a question of more photogenic curves ?

And last but not least, for those who choose this fascinating way, they all succeed in the most difficult exercise : the self portraiture as Minon, Rachel Lovitt, Anna Piovani, Marquita Norwood, Vic, Harizma, Sarah Ina Alexander... And this, it is an exception in the men photographers' works.

Since the opening of this site, I've a label I cherish : "woman artist", my tribute to their wonderful artworks. And each time I discover a woman photographer or an inspiring art model, I'm like a child in a toy store... Because I know their particular sensitivity and their outstanding inspiration. Because they make me feel this famous "Wow!" factor we all are searching for.

Ruth Bernhard
"Classic Torso"

" Every artist, in a sense, is missionary. He tries to convey a message to his fellow man – he communicates the awesome presence of truth and beauty he discover in the world around him, in its lakes and mountains, trees, rocks and plants, in its living creatures.

" Down through the centuries poets, sculptors, painters and now photographers, have also been striving to grasp and immortalize the beauty of the human body, both male and female. I see in these forms the elemental relationship to the large forms of nature ; a sense of strength like a rock – fluidity like water – space like a mountain range.

" If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual twentieth century. We seem to have a need to turn innocent nature into evil ugliness be the twist of the mind. Woman has been target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography.

" To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission – the reason for my work."

by Ruth Bernhard (source PhotoQuotes)