Nice discovery : Jan Saudek, photographer

I'm not a good photographer but I really like photography. I started to be particularly interested in it 2 years ago, when I made a work placement in a photo agency. My tasks had nothing to do with photography, but my boss was a photographer and since we had a very good relationship, he liked sharing his passion with me. I learnt a lot thanks to him and he also gave me the opportunity to come with him on a shooting for the advertising campaign of a cosmetics brand. It was very interesting to see a real professional shooting, with a real model. It is completely crazy to have such a control over your image. This Brasilian model mastered each muscle of her body and knew exactly how to take the best of it. No constipated smile like you and me!

I think this is the picture that the brand selected.

Anyway, this is not the type of pictures that I like, but this is during this work placement that I started to be interested in artistic photography, and I'd like to share with you some interesting pictures made by photographers whose work I particularly admire. Let's start with Jan Saudek, a Czech photographer that I discovered very recently. Not only do I find his pictures themselves breath-taking, but I also find some of the titles very interesting.  His nude pictures are sometimes crude and/or aggressive, or even grim for some of them, but they are all so elaborate that they are always fascinating. Some of them look like paintings. 





"My very first photograph"



   

"Hungry for your touch"



"David, lonely forever"



 

"Eine Tanzerin"



  

"Tell me, mirror"



"Czech girl singing"





His pictures about fatherhood also touch me a lot.



"First steps"





"The shelter"



"On the way"



"Kissing the tears away"





"You'll be a fortress and I'll be safe inside your massive walls"



Finally, what I like about his work is that anyone is worth being a model, everyone looks nice.

  

"Balerina"



 

"The girl I loved"



"The Knife"



 

"Kiss off"





"Portrait of my friend"



I like Saudek's universe so much that I ordered 2 picture books from his website, and I don't regret it, they are wonderful. It's a pity I can't show you all those I love, because lots of his pictures are nowhere to be found on the Internet. At the same time, this makes me all the more happy to have bought the books!

See you soon for another series of pictures!