LuganoPhotoDays 2014
LuganoPhotoDays
Manu Di Marco
Me, Her and You ***Contains Nudity***
This series of photos represent the start of a new ongoing project that I have recently undertook.
I went to Bella's (the woman in this photos and my lover) with the intent of a nude and possibly erotic photo-shoot.
We found very hard to focus on the photo-shoot while resisting our mutual attraction.
We decided to go with the flow, triggering the camera's shutter remotely even when we were not posing/directing.
The result was a mix of posed and extemporaneously intimate erotic shots.
The photo-shoot itself became foreplay for our sexual encounter. Consequently our mutual attraction and union became the real subject of the photos while the line between posed and candid got blurred.
On that day - with Bella's complicity - I started answering the questions that moves me towards naked and erotic photography.
The photographic attraction to my models could be in the end sexual attraction. And vice versa.
I am exploring freely for the first time in years my sexuality, moving from a monogamous to a polygamous life style, questioning all that I thought so far about sex and relationship.
I am willing to share moments of this new life with an audience that still find hard to accept natural expression of sexuality despite being addicted to other people's privacy (social networks) and cheap internet pornography. An audience that still may believe in a monogamous structure of society despite being frustrated from and willing to escape it.
I am saying to this audience: Please feel free to invade my privacy and admire the union of two bodies (or beings) but don't feel guilty for doing it.
By including myself in the frame I am also overcoming shame and preconception on how our body should look like in order to be considered attractive and fit for sex.
The three photos choosen form the session are Bella's favourite.