Category: Nude

Darkly Expressive Portraits of Dancers by Alessandro Risuleo

Alessandro Risuleo is an Italian photographer. With more than twenty years of experience as an art director and advertiser, he is the founder of Visual Creative Studio. When he discovered photography as a means of creative expression, Risuleo was quickly drawn to “the expressiveness of the naked body [and] the use of lighting and shadows,” […]

Gothic, Romantic Hand-Painted Photographs by Katie Eleanor

Katie Eleanor is a storyteller and photographic artist based in London. Inspired by literature, costume art, performance, and Victorian illustration, her work is dreamy, poetic, and filled with indescribable emotion. She hand-paints each photograph. Wearing powdered wigs, white makeup, and gauzy veils, the figures resemble nineteenth-century monarchs suspended in private states of reverie and despair; […]

What Girls Are Made Of: Feminist Photography by Maisie Cousins

Maisie Cousins is a London-based photographer who makes art that is “hedonistic and self-satisfying.” The themes she explores are femininity, sexuality, and the deconstruction of bodily standards. With titles like “Overgrown” and “What Girls Are Made Of,” Cousins’ series poke fun at gender tropes, replacing passivity and “sugar and spice and everything nice” with slugs, […]

Everyday Life Expressed as Surreal Paintings by Alice Wellinger

Austrian-based artist and illustrator Alice Wellinger finds inspiration in the “troubles of daily life and childhood memories.” To depict these confusing, conflicting, or just plain annoying thoughts and situations, she illustrates them as surreal paintings. The double-exposure effect is common in her work—a portrait of a person, for instance, is fused with faraway landscapes or fractured […]

Experimental Remixes by Anxo Vizcaino Create Alternate Worlds

Welcome to the pristine dream-visions of Anxo Vizcaino, an artist based in Lugo, Spain. After working as a graphic designer and illustrator for many years, he switched gears to embark on a more artistic journey. His recent personal creations involve experimental remixes that allow him to focus his “concerns and passions related to reality, outer […]

Mysterious, Occult-Themed Embroidery by Adipocere

Adipocere is the alias of a Melbourne-based artist who makes occult-themed embroideries on linen (and sometimes his own hand). Black cats, oversized spiders, wise skeletons, and disemboweled maidens are some of his recurring characters, all stitched in a minimalist color palette. Death and darkness pervade his work (the word “adipocere” itself refers to a waxy […]

10 Influential Erotic Films from Sweden

Swedish cinema historically has a more liberal stance towards sex than their North American counterparts. This can be seen in cinema as far back as 1951 with Arne Mattsson’s “One Summer of Happiness,” which features a frank depiction of both nudity and sex between a man and a woman. This film and Ingmar Bergman’s “Summer […]

Flower Lines: Beautiful New Photographs by Alva Bernadine

British photographer Alva Bernadine is no stranger to our magazine. We’ve featured his “Succubus” and “Reflect Upon This” series before, both of which are provocative for the ways in which they fragment and distort the body. However, in his newest series, titled “Flower Lines,” Bernadine has highlighted the beauty and curiosity of the body in […]