Reading, writing sara

Session 1: what, how and why

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What is it?

My practice is shooting human gestures using the nude photography medium. which doesn't have a name yet. I play with the different forms of body and shapes and i photograph them in a sensual way for my audiences. it is based on my own body but as i started making friends in school and more on, in the society, i realized human body in general, in every form and format is beautiful. And it’s not just my own body that i’m interested in its form. That is why i gradually started to work with other models. I cover up the provocative parts of the body. This is satisfying for me. Human body is very complicated. it can be formed in so many ways and i think that is the most interesting thing about it. Capturing myself naked was always a normal thing to me and shooting others became normal to me too.

Why?

I am fascinated with how much you can express with body language and that is the same in nude photography for me. The abilities of my body give me the opportunity to express whatever i’m feeling in shapes and forms. I started this to firstly, stimulate my audience’s curiosity. Secondly, to try to tell a little bit of my story, which was hiding for so many years, in my photos. Capturing a very raw material without distractions, in a very clever way that forces audience to put effort on understanding it, is satisfying for me. i always felt that i was unnormal and nobody can understand me. Expressing myself through the gestures of body made me this way of communication with others.

How?

I mask the provocative parts of the human body to firstly, prevent making any sexual desire. secondly , as mentioned before, to stimulate the curiosity. I believe curiosity is a very strong feeling that makes everybody to put effort in everything. I wanted my audiences to spend the effort to understand my pictures as well as others tried to understand me. At the same time i wanted my pictures to look beautiful. Hiding the provocative parts helped me to cross out the sexuality and make sensuality instead. I try to raise other feelings with grabbing parts of the body or using other materials such as water. I use facial expression, gaze in particular, to communicate more with my audiences and complete the journey of feelings for my audiences. The result, is giving the chance of feeling so many feeling at the end to them and give them the chance to have their own opinion on the pictures.

Version 2

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My practice is shooting nude self-portraits and nude photography of others on digital. It’s mostly in black and white, but i do color depending on what i want to express at the moment. The sexual parts of the body are hidden in the pictures, and the light is always natural light. I often use other elements that describe my personality; for example, i used my black huddy in the project's main picture to hint to the viewers that it’s me in the picture but also to hide my face. It describes the feelings and expressions that have been hidden for so long in the young woman’s life (me), and it tries to stimulate the curiosity in the audience. It is/has been a long-life project, so it doesn’t have a certain edition, and it is getting bigger every day. It started in my bedroom back when i was in my country and expanded to an actual project. It focuses on human gestures’ expression of feelings in different forms and shapes. The environment of the pictures is always my own safe place, whether it is my bedroom or my house, because i feel my true self in those places.

I am fascinated with how much you can express with body language, and for me, that is the same in nude photography. My body's abilities allow me to express whatever i’m feeling in shapes and forms. I started this first to stimulate my audience’s curiosity. I believe curiosity is a very strong feeling that makes everybody put the effort into everything. i always felt that i was unnormal and nobody could understand me.I wanted my audiences to spend the effort to understand my pictures and others who tried to understand me. Secondly, to try to tell a little bit of my story, which was hiding for so many years, in my photos. Expressing myself through the gestures of the body made me this way of communication with others. Capturing a very raw material without distractions in a very clever way that forces the audience to put effort into understanding it, is satisfying for me. Meanwhile, i wanted my pictures to look beautiful. I couldn’t understand how other artists found that hard line between being sexual and being sensual, and that was where my search around it began. Eventually, i learned how to do it in my pictures and make beautiful photos.

I mask the provocative parts of the human body to prevent making any sexual desire firstly. secondly, as mentioned before, to stimulate curiosity. Hiding the provocative parts helped me to cross out the sexuality and make sensuality instead. to make a beautiful picture. I try to raise other feelings by grabbing body parts or using other materials such as water. To test the medium of the body to the maximum of its capacity. Using natural light was forced on me because of my limitations, but i realized it makes a familiar environment for the voyeurs, so i continued using it. Then i complete the journey of feelings for my audiences with facial expressions, gaze in particular, to communicate more with them. Which i believe is a very strong tool. The result gives the chance to have so many feelings and have their own opinion on the pictures to the vouyers.

Session 1: interviews

stage one : Claudio's interview of sara (1079 words)