So here is how it came about that I posted a nipple on Instagram…
I was chatting with my PowerUp! Podcast partner Ama Rouge (ps we have an awesome competition happening… find out about it HERE) about our favourite shoots we have done over the years…
Partly this was prompted because photographer Vikki Marie Page has an exhibition in Lisbon and mentioned there might be a semi-nude (just one areola to be precise!) very artistic snap of me included in it… which funnily I did once post on my Instagram without any problems…
Ama was about to shoot with an incredible London photographer and was looking at sheer fabrics, so we got to talking about semi-nudity and the art of that kind of shoot…
And I remembered one of my first ever shoot, alongside my beautiful friend Akiyo.
And I realised I had never shared any of these images (from over ten years ago!) because I was such a perfectionist I had spotted things that were “not good enough” with these images… (like a mark on my leg for example)… and I thought a nude shoot was something to hide…
Now, I think they’re pretty awesome and I am so glad I have this memory (I actually had to write to the photographer because I didn’t even have these images anymore! And big ups and honouring to the photographer James Rowbotham who made me feel incredibly comfortable and at home during the shoot and was so willing to find me those images ten years later!)
And then (back to Ama and my chat), came all the big questions that these photos prompted and the kind of discussions Ama and I love (which you will know if you listen to our podcast!) such as…
Is this art??
Is this empowered art???
Does the gender of the photographer make it less empowered art????
And more…
Oooh how I love a good dive into these sorts of questions!
So the photos are HERE
And I would love to know your thoughts on the questions above?
And wishing you a magic 2023 full of meditation and manifestion and movement!
PS wanna catch a show? HERE are dates for 2023 so far!
