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E-mail: thalia@x-muse.net
Location: California
Specialty: Art & Erotic Nudes

Biography

After 20 years as a physicist and engineer, I chucked it all in 1999 to pursue a new career in photography. I have no formal training in photography, but consider myself a life-long artist to whom engineering was a hobby that paid the bills. Indeed, you could say I "backed in" to photography through my art, as I first picked up a camera to record material to paint from, only to discover that photography seemed a better medium to express myself than charcoal or oil paint.





My tastes in photography are eclectic; I can't say if I prefer color or B&W; I like stark grainy high-contrast photos as well as muted soft-focus ones. I like weird angles and odd distortions and carefully composed set pieces; I like movement and stillness. So far I've consciously tried to avoid cultivating a particular look of style in my work; for me the fun is in the experiment - the diversity.





I prefer digital photography to film because of the flexibility it affords me, both while shooting and in post-processing. I admire people who love film; who are true craftsmen in the darkroom but I've done my time in darkrooms and I found I don't have the patience for it. Working with digital images makes it easy for me to meld my painting instincts with my photography, giving me personally the best of both worlds.





As an artist, I've always been most inspired by women, who seem to me embody emotional, physical, and spiritual beauty as no other subject can. I think nudes capture this most powerfully and honestly; it's that quality of fearless vulnerability you see in the best nudes that I'm always looking for.





In recent years, I've moved more into the realm of erotic and fetish photography, while trying to stay solidly grounded in my art nude background. My work has been published on a few book and magazine covers, in several print publications, and appears on numerous websites, including my own.

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