This is a beautiful world, isn't it? Many of us search natural
landscapes on our travels or in our leisure time and, back home, proudly
present the photographs of these intact miracles of nature where man
not yet has applied its corrections: wild woods, rivers in their natural
beds, unmaintained lonely beaches... We love nature as is and sometimes
get melancholic, sitting in our well uncluttered offices behind clean
double glazed windows, looking at perfectly straight streets and
thinking about the fresh air out there in the wild, the roughness we
felt on our feet when walking barefooted, the liberating vibrations that
made us feel complete and happy because we left the perfectly organized
and optimized technical world for a while. It's beautiful.
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artistic nude of real people
by Andreu Revilla |
But when it comes to photography of people, where is our love for the
beauty of nature? Have you recently seen a nude woman, a naked men, that
was not „optimized“ by photoshop, that hasn't shaved all the body hair,
was made up and styled for hours, who posed in a natural way without
taking very artificial postures? And, if you look into the mirror –
honestly: don't you want, at least a little bit, to be like those
„perfect ideals“ you see all the time on magazine covers, in TV,
commercials?
In these times of factitiousness it takes quite some courage to be a
photographer who takes photos or human beings simply and just as they
are.
Andreu Revilla is one of them. Looking at his artistic nude photographs
of normal people, detecting their personal, original beauty, is like a
walk thru an unordered valley in the mountains. It could make you
discover that women and men indeed are beautiful beings.
Maybe next time you look in the mirror you'll think: yes, I am beautiful, too! Give it a try.
