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\”:

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).