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MALE SCAPES


Our desire to experience beauty has always been a primal need in society and to express it we have relied upon the arts. For me, making photographs is like breathing. it must be done. I am compelled to record what I see. The colos, textures and contrast combine to create my images. Some contain fear, excitement or a childlike wonder, while others express pruesexuality. Each one holding a precious moment of time. I consider all of my images to be self portraits.

This body of work represents an ongoing project in the classic tradition of nude studies. Influenced by Greek and Roman sculpture, each of these images reaches to explore the grace, exuberance and even oddity of the male form. These stark, edgy and provocative images set against a field of darkness, revealing here/withholding there, are open to numerous possible interpretations. My intention has always been to explore the male body, not alter or exploit it. Postioning the model as to create abstract shapes accentuated by light and shadow.

Through the use of average non-professional models, I strive to embrace the light, line, curves and textures that create what is male. Not perfection but simplistic and sensual. The forms confined in the darkness yet seeming to reach some escape.

Each image is a 3.5 x 5 inch Gelatin Silver print in editions of 25 signed and numbered by the artist on the Verso.


Terry Scopelliti

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