Nude Portraits

[rug]

As a photographer I’m deeply interested in the experience subjects have during portrait shoots. When I guide subjects through the process of making their photo, I seek to create a calm, comfortable environment where they can be at ease in front of the camera. Despite my best efforts, subjects often feel a sense of vulnerability during the process. No matter the scenario, this power imbalance seems like an almost inescapable part of the experience.

The photographer/subject paradigm is one of inequality. Nude Portraits is about leveling the playing field in an unorthodox way. Instead of focusing on bringing the subject to a place of ease, where I am, this project brings me to a place of vulnerability.

This vulnerability is achieved by making portraits without clothing. These are nude portraits in the sense that I, the photographer, am nude, while the subject is not.

I am always looking for subjects. Send me an email to find out more information about participating.

http://www.trevorchristensen.com/p/nude-portraits

[In_The_Wind]

1. Interesting concept.

[Yavin4]

2. They're all laughing.

I would be insulted.

[Autumn]

3. I think the looks on their faces is a clue that the photographer

might want to get dressed, unless he likes having his "manhood" laughed at. If he's a nude photographer comedian and telling jokes that's another matter.

[Skittles]

4. I don't think it's that at all

they're bemused, not belittling

[Autumn]

8. Yeah there is some bemusement, but one just knows it's coming

I think this is an awesome idea

[rug]

5. I'd like to know when the last one is thinking.

[Autumn]

6. He certainly is an interesting photographer. The looks on thair faces

are great.

[Aristus]

7. That's certainly a 'come-hither' look, isn't it?

[IrishAyes]

9. Reminds me of my favorite scene in 'Bridges of Madison County'.

Eastwood has just driven up to the farmhouse in his truck; the look Meryl Streep gives him before she even steps foot off the porch, you can't tell me she hadn't set her cap for him already. He wouldn't have had a chance to escape even if he'd wanted to. Which he clearly didn't.

The scene that made me howl with laughter though - and I was the only one in the whole damn theatre who did - was when Meryll Streep had him hidden upstairs and her girlfriend started insisting she'd spend the WHOLE DAY on a girls' holiday with her. I found it hysterical. For awhile it seemed there was no getting rid of that lady.

[IrishAyes]

10. Don't try to act as if you don't already know the answer to that one, Pinnochio!

[rug]

12. Who, me?

[Skittles]

11. I'll tell you

she's thinking, mmmmm...........yes

[rug]

13. She is paying a lot of attention to that pinky.