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...
"But life is change, that is how it differs from rocks, change is its very nature." "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham My first art photography gallery opened in downtown Bologna in 1988 and lasted about 18 months, till my career in fashion and advertising took off and I had no further need of...
Art and Run at the Photo Academy in Graz, Austria. Patrick Nicholas has been invited by Herman Herzele to Graz again for another Art and Run event at the Foto Akademie. The two day event and photo workshop has been held the weekend of 18/19 April. Patrick Nicholas, Fine Art Photographer...
http://vimeo.com/82022214 Patrick Nicholas Fine Art Photographer speaks about Le Belle and his approach to his female protagonists in this 30 minutes video. Half hour documentary about photographer Patrick Nicholas shooting 5 pictures on location in Italy for his ‘Belle’ series of nude...
We set off to take a photo on the beach in mid October despite the awful weather because this was the last opportunity of the year. We had planned to take the picture back in 2007 when I met her shortly after opening my gallery in Orvieto, though something had always conspired to postpone time...
A Sixties song comes to life A Whiter Shade of Pale, one of the all time great song titles, and in effect a one line poem. The Procol Harum song, came into my mind as I arranged this picture on the basalt rocks in the gorge near the ruins of the Etruscan city of Vulci on the...
Sometimes I come back to a picture with a new idea, usually to add something - such are the wonders of Photoshop - despised I know by many purists but manna from heaven to someone like me who never knows when to stop. In this case I have tinkered with a 2006 picture called...
In early spring 2009 I took the picture above of a weeping willow on Lake Bolsena, Italy. A fortnight later a high wind ripped off the upper bough and for at least a couple of years it lay semi-submerged, rotting in the shallow water below. Willow Pattern Spode, English willow pattern...
Please lock me away...... Danae was sent to the tower to protect her virtue; in an ivory tower intellectuals are supposed to argue over how many angels one can fit on the head of a pin; and those searching for a bit of unworldly peace to write that novel, scan their slides, write a song...
A hundred years ago few anywhere suspected that the most deadly war of all time was about to break out in six months time. What occupied the minds of Britons was whether women should be awarded the vote or not, the disruptive campaign the Suffragettes were carrying out and the Liberal...
It occurred to me one afternoon in Paris what made some female nudes shocking - it depends on what they are wearing, or, on their hair. The occasion was the Felix Vallatton exhibition in January. The artist was perhaps best known for his curious conversation pieces of couples in which the...
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