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Marc Koegel is a Canadian award-winning fine-art photographer. Shooting primarily landscapes and nudes/portraits, Marc prefers to work in black and white with a very minimalist style.

@ the age of 12 you discover the mirror …

I like the posts to fit together, so after the last one I had to put these pictures on to get things a little poetical: know that the girl in the porche ran away of home in a rage ….

shapes in B&W …

She:

red rain:
I like photos, I like music, together they make movie, i like movies …

photos by female photographer Павел Киселев …

Always nice in your life: to get new perspectives, isn’t it? I like the way he uses depth…

Bob:
Sergei Veter:”I’ve been carried away with photography on spring 2005. Before I had made pictures with the help of plain camera. And that spring my junior brother bought a digital camera (Lumix), for this I am obliged him much…”

pulp:

Peter Gabriel sings “Suzanne” (rare)
Sting sings “dessert rose”

some mobile pics, token a few moments before I totally collapsed after some Grappa and an excellent, secretly exported Cuban cigar! We had a very good meal at a fish restaurant ( Zeespreeuw ) and went afterwards to Aimé’s place. Aimé is knighted as a ‘Maître Pipier’ , somewhere in France, and we had [...]

some mobile pics in an afterwork mood …

some iBooth familie pictures.  iBooth is always fun @ home…

There’s a directness and intimacy to the large format portraiture of Sanders McNew that’s very powerful.

@ young gallery … Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades …

” I use a photo, as a basis for creation… “

For an event we organised we bought 60 umbrella’s !?  I didn’t rain …

I saw the film by Truffaut yesterday and this pictures seem like echo’s of it.

… that’s the name this female Russian photoghaper uses, and I believe she does …

I have to admit: I’m superstitious … every time I see a heron flying over it gives me some courage. A Heron is an old Egyptian symbol of hope: when people saw one flying over there in that dry and warm country, the Egyptians knew the Nile was rising and would bring them [...]

The Garden Of Eros
IT is full summer now, the heart of June,
Not yet the sun-burnt reapers are a-stir
Upon the upland meadow where too soon
Rich autumn time, the season’s usurer,
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,
And see his treasure scattered by the wild and spendthrift breeze.

Sensual, and almost sinister at the same time…

yesterday, I picked up a beggar  from the street and let him coock a meal in my kitchen ….

hope …

Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible.
These three are indefinable, they are one.

I like to watch each photo for a while, listening to the music… small movies …

Spending a long weekend in an awfull hotel in Avignon (FR, my laptop is my only compagnon ….

“Like a single note of a piano struck that sets other strings within to vibrating in response, a unique artistic voice can set our soul ringing. “

tom waits: “… we laughed my friends and I we swore we’d be together until the day we died …”

Salome, Christian traditions depict her as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness, for instance depicting her dance mentioned in the New Testament, or concentrate on her lighthearted and cold foolishness that, according to the gospels, led to John the Baptist’s death

sans mots …

“I live in Ukraine, in city of miners - Donetsk. The artist. I use a photo, as a basis for creation of the works. I photograph only itself and only on a film (6×6 - 9×12cm.) the Main criterion in creativity - to feel! And through the art to inform these feelings to people!” Strange [...]

soft, sweet and tender …. you wish …

some backstage photos…

Ernesto lives in France near Paris and work mainly as an art director and partly as a photographer. Darkness remains his favorite colour, freedom for bodies and minds his ultimate claim.

this one …

I made some photos with my mobile phone …. (the café Salle Jeanne Simons is where I took some of them and where I learned about Damien Rice …)

From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl,
My heart says follow trough.
But I know, now, that Im way down on your line,
But the waitin feel is fine:
So dont treat me like a puppet on a string,
cause I know I have to do my thing.
Dont talk to me as if you think [...]

Stephan Vanfleteren: His radical black-and-white documentary work covers the disappearance of small, anarchic worlds and the phenomena of everyday life in his homeland Belgium as well as events from world’s conflict zones to every day life around the world. He also interested in portraying artists, actors, writers, directors, musicians and all other people that express [...]

a man ’s got to do what a man has got to do… : “If you want large prints send to my mail poczta@paweldzik.com.pl “

‘why do you look like that at me?’ - photos by massbrutt

greetings from Belgium ….

As an artist, I had long been interested in the universal power and necessity of religious ritual and its theatrical qualities. Until a few years ago, I was known as a sculptor and performance artist. Primarily, I created large scale “environmental installations” in which I performed “religious rituals” as performance art.

powerfull images…

in according to last post: men/animal or is it men/allian?

“there are three different passions in my life … My baby, music and photography. And I believe that they are all united in me with one and only … LOVE ” …

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else”

Do you know the comics serie ‘Kogaratsu‘? I’m a big fan!!! And this foto’s remind me of the world of Kogaratsu…“Bettoes or Grooms” is a photograph from a Beato album in the Smith College Museum of Art. The image illustrates hand-applied color that dramatically enhances the photograph, in this case capturing the detail [...]

hide yourself!! be someone else.

a collection of old pictures: makes you wander…

After that last post I needed some sunlight. I found it in the pictures by kadir barcin…

fine work, nice technic, beautiful pictures…

Fashion and beauty photographer Warwick Saint , loved by his mom and model, has a small gallery of nudes in the Personal Work section of his website.

“See the beauty in every living creature” The Nu Project is a series of nudes using normal people as models. Matt Blumm has since continued to develop the nude project staying true to the idea of no models, no makeup, and no glamour. I just bought the music he uses on his website “Cloudburst” [...]

I know, I know, it’s only their ego, but still, somehow they frighten me… (pictures of sportswoman)

“The work of artist Ruzek is a mixture of those “typical” glamor style nudes and something I would label “experimental erotic photography”.”

Archaeologist Michae Shanks:”How could an archaeologist not be fascinated by photography? Any medium? After all archaeology is all about turning what is left of the past into a report, an image, a story, an argument …”
The portfolios are available through the link above.

(Thomas Hodges)…It is true to say that I work in a variety of styles with a variety of subjects. However, my principal focus is on the creation of images which I define as “imaginistic”. Be it the beauty of the female form or that of an architectural monument, such images will leave your imagination [...]

If Leni Riefenstahl had done nothing but visit Africa and bring back her photographs, her place in history would be secure.”

a lot of photographers are teased by the Nuba people; amongst them Antonio Cores…

“I keep having the same dream. It seems to be forcing me to return to the bittersweet site of my grandfather’s house, where I was born on the table forty years ago. Something always prevents me from entering. I keep having this dream. When I dream of the log walls and dark pantry, I sense [...]

Jacek Jedrzejczak “KONRAD”is a member of Union of Polish Art erotic-photographers. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Beautiful b&w artstyle, but I like his coloured under water world… his model has a very beautifull mouth…

Alex Vanzetti shoots fine art nudes with elegant compositions. His site represents an intimate overview of unique nude photographic style. Sensual b&w and color nudes…

verry fine b&w photos…

She started photographing when she was recovering from a spinal injury, more or less to relieve boredom. Her first photographs were raw pictures of herself, a visual diary of her frustrations and pain. But Zoë Navarro’s artistic journey did not end when she recovered. It was only the beginning of an impressive oeuvre of [...]

girls by maria paula langerSeems like ev’rywhere I go, Seems like ev’rything I do, Seems like ev’rything I dream about, Seems like ev’rywhere I look, ….Well I got girls, girls on my mind. I think about them mostly all the time….

This is the purest of photographic experiences. Only the eyes of a poet can enable us to exist in several time dimensions simultaneously.

In the mid Fifties when I began figure photography straight photographs of the nude alone were not fully satisfying to me. In my mind, regardless of composition, form and lighting, they did not have great artistic value. They lacked meaning. Their use was that of a sketchbook, notes, poses, and angles to be developed later [...]

dixit Bo Egestroem: “The farther models are from their own country, the better they work,” offers Egestroem. “That’s why it’s great to shoot models from abroad—not only because they look different, but also because they come here to work.”

Another interpretation of her body…

they all look at the camera asking: “What do you want?”. Well I ask you: what?

just because ….

the first thing I see are the eyes….

photos fotos prentjes zantjes lichtdrukmalen etc. …

There is an unbelievably wide spectrum between beautiful expressions of the nude human form and the portrayal of explicit lovemaking acts. Those that have not been exposed to different levels of nude art will often find they cannot discern between them, the result is the categorization of all nudity as indelicate and exploitative. The images [...]

“witness” photography by James Nachtwey …

Is there a female word for soldier? Bulletta? Armessa? Soldatesse?

Lantos Istvàn: “I was born on 24th November 1961, Budapest. I had been a scriptwriter for long years but now I find it quite difficult to tell about myself as a photographer..

Queen of pain:

Greta Buysse loves mise en scène, accumulating and associating, a hint of Baroque, tension, retro. Sometimes she cherishes apparently worthless things, but with a whole life behind them, and she integrates them in a work of art. With a cautious, groping sensitivity she often in an inimitable way records the [...]

“A favourit style of me is “blue-art” photography. With these pictures I try to show the artistic and sensual nude in a special and different way. Pictures like this can only be made when there is a trustful agreement between model and photographer. For a photoshoot in this style I like to talk things over…” [...]

I see this pictures by Sofia Avdeeva, and this song “going to my hometown”, one of the milestones in my musical education, by Rory Gallagher pops in my mind: “I’m gett’n lonesome, I’m gett’n bue, I need someone to talk to…’

“Almost my entire family worked in the cinema business, at the technical division of it. My grandfather started his own cinema company and all his children joined in.

Emil Schildt like to develope in a vintage kind of style…

As I was searching for pictures for a charity program (Make A Wish) that we organise I stumbeled on these little ones…

The official Pirelli Calendar site represents the essence of the famous Calendar, a celebration of feminine beauty, presented through an extraordinary historical journey, which is, in itself, a testimony to the evolution and creativity of worldwide photography over the last 42 years.

she makes nice portraits of the famous, and made a ‘fairy tail’ movie’ …

International Colour Art Competition 2004
Red was the theme for the year 2004 portrait competition in Colour Art Photo

Biliana, your drop and macro shots are amazing, every time I look at them I want to grab my camera and go set it up under the tap in my kitchen

a nic e collection of art photos.

for my nephew Jan ….

“kleine kinder”

miles davis “blue in green”

Elga Petruskina, master’s degree Criminal Justice @ ashworth university. She speaks five languages…

“cockels and mussels”:
lieve:”I’m passionate about music and photography in equal measure and have established a reputation for my imaginative & striking gig, festival & album photography. I specialise in Celtic, folk, roots, jazz and Indie musician photography.”

Weegee’s subjects are gangsters, transvestites arrested by the police, the homeless, victims of accidents or murders, but also