Gazella Photo is all about the human form in its natural state, especially the female nude. For thousands of years the female and male nude have inspired artists of all media throughout the world. My photography focuses on the sensuality, mystery, and grace of the nude. While nude portraits may evoke intimacy and vulnerability, they can just as easily portray power and agility. This is my goal in creating and growing my nascent gallery of fine art nudes.
My photos are definitely from a point of view and are influenced by my earlier work in the film industry and love of storytelling. They often portray the sort of private moments you might experience with an intimate, and you might find yourself writing your own captions to my photos. I shoot with both natural and artificial light, and seek to shape light and shadow to create atmospheric portraits.
Gazella Photo is named after the genus gazella, to which the gazelle and other antelopes belong. Originally an Arabic word, it symbolizes grace and female beauty. The word then came to Spain and France, eventually migrating to the English language around the year 1600.
Themes linking the gazelle with the beloved go back to ancient times. In Arabic love poetry, a member of the first generation of Muslims, Abd al-Malik (caliph from 685 to 705), freed a captured gazelle because she resembled his beloved:
My photos are definitely from a point of view and are influenced by my earlier work in the film industry and love of storytelling. They often portray the sort of private moments you might experience with an intimate, and you might find yourself writing your own captions to my photos. I shoot with both natural and artificial light, and seek to shape light and shadow to create atmospheric portraits.
Gazella Photo is named after the genus gazella, to which the gazelle and other antelopes belong. Originally an Arabic word, it symbolizes grace and female beauty. The word then came to Spain and France, eventually migrating to the English language around the year 1600.
Themes linking the gazelle with the beloved go back to ancient times. In Arabic love poetry, a member of the first generation of Muslims, Abd al-Malik (caliph from 685 to 705), freed a captured gazelle because she resembled his beloved:
O likeness of Layla never fear!
For I am your friend, today, O wild gazelle!
Then I say, after freeing her from her fetters:
You are free for the sake of Layla, for ever!
For I am your friend, today, O wild gazelle!
Then I say, after freeing her from her fetters:
You are free for the sake of Layla, for ever!
The theme of the beloved being likened to a gazelle can also be found in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the famous Hebrew Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon) from the last section known as the Tanakh:
Come away, my beloved,
and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag
on the spice-laden mountains.
and be like a gazelle
or like a young stag
on the spice-laden mountains.