The shot of The Three Graces was on my list of projects for over six years, but I could never get three friends together at the same time. Kelsey and René at lunch just after we met. Over lunch they decided to pose for Three Graces. Two Canadian Women Two beautiful Canadians, Kelsey and Renè...
Seeking Grace On the old Roman road on the hill leading towards Orvieto from which Turner painted his celebrated painting in 1828, stands a crumbling de-consecrated church that belongs to an old friend of mine Lucio, this is where he and his friends restore old cars and where they keep their...
Nadia tells her story: "Pleasure is made of simple things. What could perhaps illustrate this best?" The ingredients of a picture: Luxe, Calme et Volupté comes from a line taken from Baudelaire’s poem Invitation du Voyage, but it was a news item about a chocolate confection popular in...
Poetry, music and painting, all converge in this photo-shoot, setting the mood for the final image. This picture had its origins in the sight of a freshly painted blue boat on the shores of Lake Bolsena which reminded me of a painting by Carl Moll, a mysterious, unsettling picture of a blue...
Patrick Richmond Nicholas has decided to show off. He organises photo events in cafés, spas, clubs; they are not strictly exhibitions as nothing is hung on the wall. Rather he displays his work on an easel, explaining how the Belle series has developed over the years. During his photo events,...
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is one of those paintings that is immediately familiar even to those who know little or nothing of art. For this reason it was chosen to launch the series “Le Belle nell’Arte” in an Italian regional newspaper based in Rimini. The image was so instantly...
I have lived in Italy for over 25 years and have been working on the Belle (which means beautiful women in Italian) for 20 of those years. In this video Belle I recount how approach my models, about my mentors and more. As this is an ongoing project I am always interested in...
What is it like to pose for one of the Belle? Here is Katia's humorous story. A young journalist from Australia of Italian origin she posed for Correspondent and also for Klimtomania with fellow Australian, her friend Daniella also of Italian origin. I stand, naked, with a...
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was the beginning of the end for the White Goddess. Amongst animals only man is conscious of his place in the world, only man realises that time passes, that he is mortal. As the word took over, as Adam delved and Eve span, the superior power of...
Before the advent of monotheistic religions peoples of antiquity held that gods resided in places and that their voices holding eternal truths could be heard if you only listened - what the Romans referred to as Genius Loci. In Europe this belief persisted in country districts until...
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