My name is Carnival

It’s the season again, so I decided to show you some early work I did in April of 2011, when I was still a rookie in nude art photography. Don’t worry – this one’s “safe for work”:

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My name is Carnival – Sarah, April 2011

I took this portrait of Sarah at Haenson Studios. A camera with only 10 Megapixels, but a good lens mounted to it.

If you click on the title, you’ll get some music I love, and click on the photo to go to Flickr where you can get it bigger, like almost always.

Thanks for viewing.

P.S.: Before I get some comments on this: it is early work ok, but I still consider to include it into a series like “The unretouched woman”, by Eve Arnold. I’m a photographer, not a painter, and today I see and know what could have been done better.

P.P.S.: what I also like about this picture is that Sarah’s lipstick is a bit smeared, and that it’s kind of imperfect. Like Bettina Rheims, who tells her sitters something like: “I want you to imagine that it’s 3 o’clock in the morning. You’re not that fit and perfect anymore, but just relax and be yourself” (translated from my memory, that was in the documentary about the photographer which I saw on Arte lately).

2 Replies to “My name is Carnival”

  1. Really really nice portrait Wolfgang. 🙂
    Who cares about this lipstick. 🙂
    Nice.

    1. Thanks colleague! I actually quite like the not so perfect lipstick, her goose bumps, and everything. Too good to paint it all away I thought…

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