Hmm, I suppose this is a bit off topic for a thread on nude art photography but is this not the nature of the best conversations? To bring it back round, I recently came across a delicious video of body painting with a soundtrack of Mozart's overture to the Marriage of Figaro. Perfect for those of us who also love classical music and opera. If I can manage to find it again, I'll post the web address.
]]>As a photographer myself, I too applaud Polly Penrose's work. Ivy, thank you for bringing it to our attention. And, as you yourself are a photographer, might you also share your own work with us?
Hello again, Trevor!
I don't have my work on a public platform as yet, but it is something I will think about working towards in the future.
What kind of photography do you enjoy? Portraits, landscapes, street photography?
]]>“My body is a prop. I go into these spaces and I use it to get the best picture that I can in that space, the most interesting, dynamic… The one thing that I did think was when I was taking them was that I’m strong. I’m quite good at gymnastics, I’m quite bendy. I think that seeing a body do those things is interesting and I wanted to show a women’s body. They are not sexual and I didn’t want any (thing) sexual. I’m not against it, I love beautiful alluring pictures of women, it was more documenting a performance of a body within a space and what it can (do in that space), and I wanted it to be strong, dynamic, capable, interesting. I didn’t want to lie around in on a chaise lounge. My body is not spectacular; it’s not fat, it’s not thin, it’s just quite a normal body. So you don’t look at my body and go ‘oh my god, look at that body’ you go ‘look at that body in the space’.”
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