Time spent seeing “in the moment” through self-portraiture prepared me to photograph Erotic Lives of Women, which called for me to photograph women’s strongest erotic experiences and intersperse them between interviews with writer Marion Schneider. Self-portraiture has a historic and contemporary impact, as artists weave their personal evolution into the larger sphere. It can also […]
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Photographer’s Journey: The orgasmic experience of a wedding proposal
After an interview for Orgasm, I’d talk to the woman about how she wished to be photographed while using my own intuition and eyeing the location, her clothes or objects there to offer ideas. In the shoot in Colombia, Marcela said she wished to show her strongest orgasm that happened after her boyfriend asked her […]
Photographer’s Journey: Representation without objectification
Some colleagues, curators and experts have written about my photographs which provides feedback and shows me that my process is useful and important. Mimi Schippers, Professor at University of New Orleans, wrote: “There are very few people who, in our pornified society, can visually capture and eroticize the female and feminine body without objectifying it. […]
Photographer’s Journey: The incomparable feeling of an orgasm
Orgasm has come to mean a replenishment of energy – a vibrating splash that throws you into the cave and you end up floating with this feeling. It’s like tiny pearls popping off of a strand — pearls that pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop until it’s over. It puts you in a […]