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Sand, Fog, and Water

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:01:48 +0000

My other work has kept me from bodyscapes for the better part of a year now, but with upcoming changes in my life, including a move to Boston, I thought it was a good time to prepare for one last bodyscape shoot in Miami. This included reviewing my previous body of work (no pun intended) which made me realize I never posted the results from my Sand, Fog, and Water bodyscape shoots.

Manage Gallery Exhibition

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:26:50 +0000

I was honored late last year to have my work shown at the Manege Gallery / Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg Russia. The Curator, Marina Jigarkhanyan, had seen my work in the collection of the Art Photo Expo Gallery and contacted me directly to invite to me to participate in their annual photography exhibition. The 2010 exhibition followed a very broadly defined theme of “Fashion” in which my work fit as a sort of base interpretation. The idea being that the body is the origin of all fashion – without the lines, shapes, and curves of the body there would be little of interest to ornament with clothing and accessories.

The exhibition also gave me an excuse to see Russia for the first time.The highlight of the trip was having the pleasure of dining with Marina and my host at the Russian Vodka Room. We shared our often differing, always strongly held, and mutually respected views of the world – from two very different countries and from two different generations – an experience worth the trip by itself.

The photos below that have my logo water marked on them are my images. The remainder are from the staff of the Manege Gallery who have my appreciation for providing such images to the artists who were exhibiting.

I owe a debt of gratitude to Marina without whom I would have never enjoyed this experience.

Multibody Bodyscape

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:03:14 +0000

I’ve been focusing on adding layers and depth to my bodyscape series. By using bodies with different skin color and stacking multiple bodies into each frame I hope to increase the dimensionality of my work.

I’d like to offer a big thank you to the models who gave me my first opportunity to work with so many bodies at once.

Bodyscape Social Selection for Manege Gallery (Russia)

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:19:06 +0000

I have been asked by Марина Джигарханян the Head of the Department of Contemporary Art at the “Manege” Central Exhibition Hall, to exhibit my bodyscape collection at the Saint-Petersburg Photo Vernissag. This invitation-only photo exhibit, will be hung in September 2010 in St. Petersburg Russia. For the selection of my images to show I am going to depend heavily upon the process of social selection.

Here is the theme of the show (note: English is a 2nd language for the curator):
At the heart of fashion lies an individual style, and her world – a self-contained space, absorbing a wide range of phenomena. Through them a man expresses his attitude to external forms of culture: lifestyle, serving and table manners, cars, clothing, thus trying to show their place in society, their sexuality, location, class, status level and belonging to a particular group. Photocamera gives us an opportunity to capture different aspects of fashion, its endless cyclicism and change of artistic images, which always embody the era image in a clothing. This subject gives participants a wide opportunities for philosophical reflections and artistic self-expression.

Please vote by clicking on the stars below the photo and/or leaving a comment.

You can also see a larger version of each photo by clicking on that photo.

Social Pre-Selection: French Bodyscapes for Russia

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:48:35 +0000

I’ve been invited to show my bodyscapes at the the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg in Russia. Before making a final selection of my work to show I did one last shoot.
This is a social selection process, which means I want you, the reader, to leave a comment with your favorite image and what you think it should be named.

Bodyscape Social Selection Again

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:28:35 +0000

My past Bodyscape Social Selection post and Bodyscape Soscial Selection Continued post have been so helpful in deciding which bodyscapes to add to my permanent collection that I’ve decided to turn it into a routine.

So here is a recent shoot with it’s 10 semi-final pics.

Bodyscapes Continued

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:59:28 +0000

I planned on completing my bodyscape collection selection after my Bodyscape Social Selection post. However, new ideas for bodyscapes kept coming to mind, so I decided on two more shoots to help round out the collection. This is the first of those two shoots.

Bodyscape Social Selection

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:20:08 +0000

I need your help!

The named bodyscapes below are part of my permanent collection. The bodyscapes named “candidates” are being considered for my permanent collection.

Please leave a COMMENT below with the name of the candidate you think best deserves to be included in the permanent collection.

Now at Art Photo Expo Gallery (Lincoln Rd. South Beach)

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:26:36 +0000

I am happy to announce that starting next week prints of these two images will be hanging in the high-end Art Photo Expo Gallery (map | info) on Lincoln Road in South Beach. These are 2 foot by 4 foot black and white prints were exposed on traditional photographic paper, processed chemically, then mounted behind a sheet of photographic grade acrylic, and backed by a sheet of aluminum. The prints are limited to a series of 20 and are available for $2000. You can contact the gallery at info@artphotoexpo.com or visit in person.

About the Gallery (from artphotoexpo.com)

Art Photo Expo Gallery exhibits and sells limited edition fine art photography. Collections are often comprised of works from curated exhibitions and supplemented continually with art works from other international photographer artists. The first Art Photo Expo Gallery opened in 2008 at 910 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida. Additional locations will be coming on the market soon.

About the Series (from Art Photo Expo’s Description):

Doug Peterson’s Bodyscape Series approaches the female figure as a landscape; the lines and curves of delicately lit forms evoke rolling hills, majestic mountains, ocean waves, arctic tundra and other scenes from the natural world. A conscious modernization of the themes of Edward Weston, the Bodyscape series insists that a woman can celebrate the mystery and beauty of her body without accepting sexual objectification.

Nude Landscapes and Nude Abstracts

admin — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:55:00 +0000

Creating compelling images using nothing but the human body and lighting is challenging. Any sexuality or awkwardness is obscured by the constant struggle to find interesting lines, shapes, and textures.

In both of these shoots I used two cameras. The first was a point and shoot digital camera which I used mainly to evaluate lighting and composition. The second was an 8″x10″ film view camera. Being 8×10 this film has 80 sq. inches, a full 60 times more than 35mm. The resulting image is around 100-200 megapixels. This quality is why digital cameras won’t displace film in applications requiring top-quality for quite some time. In fact, a group of photo nerds has modified an air force aerial camera to produce 1000+ megapixel images.

These models have given permission to have the images used in this blog. Please respect their privacy by not reproducing these images without my explicit permission.

Please Note: Artistic Nude Images are Shown After the Jump