We often forget that being nude is not always a rare a thing. In certain parts of the world is common place, and in some respects a way of life. To the outside observer it is still beautiful yes, but highly sexualized no. Gian Paolo Barbieri brings this concept home with his masterful work, Exotic Nudes.
Shot in the Seychelles in both immaculate monochrome and vivid color, the Equator photographs capture the primitive essences of Barbieri's subjects'be they fish, plants, or the bodies of nude men and women. His black and white photographs of the tattooed men and women of Tahiti comprise a graceful homage to a world rapidly disappearing. Barbieri's images are seared with heat and dust, sea and sand, eroticism and sensuality, building... MORE
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