Shot with P40+ w/ Phase One Digital Back.
On March 5th 2010, I experienced 12 hours of manual labor...technical labor...creative labor.
I love this stuff.
For a class I was assigned to shoot a male nude within a group, each of us taking turns shooting, assisting, gophering, teching (working with Phase One camera P40+ tethered to Capture One software) and general trial and error that would occur throughout the day.
I've shot a male nude once before, and all I knew was that my photos were not going to look like that again. There's this tendency towards overly sexual ideas with nudity in photography...flexing and touching, bedroom eyes, and this very work usually is shot without any actual crude exposure. We're all aware the anticipation is usually more alluring than what is really there....but..
More so than that, America wants it's beautiful purity to remain, with the assistance of censorship laws, traditional Christian values, double standards, et cetera. No matter what our parents did in the groovy generation, all of these ideals made it through to today. And yet, this is all crap. To America, there is no problem with "secretly" getting dirtier and dirtier, you know when you look really REALLY close you see it. Just keep zooming, like a David Lynch film, and there it is.
Either way, this time around, I made a point to create imagery that focused on the aspect of vulnerability that comes with being nude. As well, I played around with the idea of turning his body into something more of a creature, versus human. Creatures are always naked. I did not pay much attention to where his privates were swaying, to me it was less relevant since I'm not creating 'sexual imagery'. The nude body is natural, and it's just honest. No secrets here.
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