Hi, this is I, Bari AnX and welcome to The Candid Frame.

The nude has been a subject for photography ever since the technology was created that

allowed you to permanently fix a image onto a piece of paper or glass.

And it's always been associated with a little bit of controversy.

And even now, we have images of the nudes all over the place.

Naked people are appearing on our television sets, on movie theaters and magazines.

And you would think that after a while, we would sort of become sort of numb to it.

But the image of the nude human figure is just loaded with a lot of things.

So when a photographer decides to pick up a camera and decides to focus on the nude figure,

particularly the nude figure of a woman, there are a lot of questions that are going to be

asked.

And our today's guest has been taking on a project called the New Project, which is a series

of portraits of primarily nude women in their homes.

And one of the things that I liked about this picture was that these weren't the kind of nude pictures that you often see when people see themselves as photographing the nude.

Those images tend to be very stylized, black and white, formally posed, very well-crafted

and controlled images. And these images of these women are just very natural photographs of people

in their space, in their homes, in their apartments, but they're naked. And there's a certain level of vulnerability that comes across in those images, but also a

sort of openness.

When I look at those pictures, there's a less of a tendency to be able to objectify the person

because of the way they're looking back at you in the frame, you actually get to recognize

those people as people

and not just something to be objectified.

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