This is the third exhibition in which I have been included. Ordinarily I hate entering competitions - I'm a very sore loser - but I told myself this time that since I had already been accepted twice it didn't really matter. But it did!
The photograph came from a very intense session with this model, that began at about 9 in the evening and went on until nearly 3 in the morning, during which we collaborated in a series of grueling concepts ranging from hanging from the rafters by his wrists to doing gymnastic turns on a suspended rope to crawling nude through piles of dirt to being hosed down and brought back into the studio for dance poses.
This image came at the very end of the shoot, when we were both exhausted and exhilarated, and had gotten down to basics. There is no pretense or posing here; just raw beauty.
I continue to enter this competition because I have such respect for the Institute and its vision. Their collection of 20th century photography is second to none, and I am very proud to have six of my own images in the collection.
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