Photography as a way of living, with all its opportunities for expression, became my passion at an early stage. In particular, the magic of nude photography, which often lends the model an even greater aura of beauty and grace, is a great fascination for me. My models are my first and most important audience in […]

When things go well there is no thinking, but only trust. A trust in the feeling that something is right. If everyone feels a yes inside, something happens. To do without thinking is letting go of reasoning. It can be in the way and can delay the functions of the brain, which is operating in […]

Urko Suaya has built a reputation mainly as a fashion and advertising photographer in Latin America. Erotic portraits are also some of his strongest work. 39m2, his last erotic digital pictures book, will be published next year. His clients involve a long list of international and Argentine brands and firms. Among them, he has done […]

Tchera Niyego, the curator of the “White” show at the Broadway Gallery, NYC, happens to be a woman of style and substance. Luckily for me, the show lived up to what I have come to expect from her (because there is nothing worse than having to face a beautiful woman and tell her she’d better […]

“San Francisco tower, United 88 heavy, ready for departure runway 28 right.” “United 88 Heavy, cleared for takeoff runway 28 right.”Having heard that on my headphones, I adjusted my belt and positioned myself for the massive force accelerating me forward. I looked out the window and watched what were moments before “droopy” wings start bending […]

My American colleague Professor David Carrier wrote to me that I might find time in my summer vacation to have a look at his friend Peter Wayne Lewis’s one-person show underway in Beijing. He hoped that I could write something about the exhibition. However, Lewis is a totally unknown name to me and, as I […]

The paintings of Kendrick Mar convey childhood emotions and an off-balance sense of nostalgia. His sparse compositions are occupied by lonely doll-like figures rendered on colorful and thickly textured surfaces. Images are pared down and reduced to their most essential components, imparting them with iconographic immediacy. The roughly formed figures register as vaguely familiar cartoon […]

Music, the purest of all the artistic mediums, was at the forefront of avant-garde experimentation throughout the 20th century. The collaborations between Beat poets and jazz musicians in the 50s gave rise to the 60s counterculture movement that was propelled by avant-garde experiments with music arising from chance encounters in everyday life and the popularity […]

My relationship with music…and its relationship with me. As I write there is a running sequence and respelling of chords going on in my head—a function that never seems to stop unless I am asleep, listening to music or performing music. Some might say I was crazy or neurotic; I would simply say that I […]

For as long as I can remember, I have always been creatively driven in life. I remember trying to emulate skateboard graphics as a child and, later in high school, being greatly influenced by grafitti art. While in class, I spent more time glued to my sketchbook in deep concentration than following the prescribed curriculum. […]