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Nathalie Debroise

Clara DeLamater

Daniel Jodet

Alfred Kessler

Robbie Lacomb Roach

Pierre Lancelin

Helen Later

Marie-Sophie Madre

Bob Meyer

Robert Ogle

Ralph Petty

Maria Martha Pichel

Michael Roach

Georgia Boyd Russell

Frances P. Ryan

Diego Vegezzi

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

I try to photograph intimacy, nudity, transparency and opacity, capturing the darkness that haunts the eyes of women, revealing the ambivalence that is, in my view, the very essence of seduction. Gorgon, medusa, amazon figures of warrior women nourish my personal mythology. Is photography a kind of therapy? Perhaps. What inspires my pictures is the phantasmagorical bond I share with my models, a complicity that is created in the construction of a new form of sexual identity far removed from maternal images, far from pornographic icons. No stolen images, no violation, no voyeurism. It is, rather, a game, a return to the freedom and openness of childhood, the freedom to be ambiguous, where the barriers between masculine and feminine are blurred and uncertain.
 
 
 
 
 

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