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These Incredible Nude Photos Show How Stunning People Are At Their Barest
Anastasia Kuba photographed people in “Nothing But Light." Her NSFW photos will give you serious body positive vibes.
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A year ago, San Francisco photographer Anastasia Kuba decided to switch her artistic direction. The former dancer had been a boudoir photographer since 2008, but she was ready for something different. "The pictures that came out were really gorgeous, but they turned my stomach upside down because something was deeply wrong about them," Kuba tells SELF. What was wrong: Kuba felt the images didn't capture the real person in front of the camera.
So she raised money on Indiegogo for a new campaign entitled "Nothing But Light," in which she aimed to a diverse group of subjects, sans makeup, lighting, Photoshop—and clothing. She pitched the project for 60 subjects, but worried she wouldn't find that many. After posting her first request for people to pose on Facebook one night, she woke up the next morning to 60 interested people. She ended up shooting 80 for the final project.
The artist herself. Read Anastasia's statement . Image Credit: Hanna Quevedo
Starting in April 2015, Kuba began hosting photo sessions in her studio to capture her subjects, devoting about three hours to each person. She says there was a mutual respect between both parties—the people could leave the project at any time and request specific snaps or all of their photos to be removed—and they could even turn the camera on Kuba, capturing her nude if they wished.
"It might not make that much sense why are people naked in the photos if you think about it on the surface, but it does," she says. "That’s them and that’s what they look like, and no one is wearing any makeup and I let people keep their jewelry on only if the jewelry was meaningful to them. But the light was natural and they weren’t posing. I wasn’t telling them what to do."
She also encouraged each subject to submit a statement to accompany their pictures, telling their story in their own words. The people pictured tell powerful stories of struggle, success, love and loss. The complete project, which is on her website , is stunning and empowering.
Read about Satya . Image Credit: Anastasia Kuba
"This is a body positive campaign, no doubt about it," Kuba says. "To be loved is to be known, and to be known is to be open, and you have to show yourself which is incredibly hard to do if you feel things."
Take a look at some of her amazing photos:
Read about Daisy . Image Credit: Anastasia Kuba
Read about Rob . Image Credit: Anastasia Kuba
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Read about Isobel . Image Credit: Anastasia Kuba
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Home Art ‘I’ve Got Nothing More to Hide’: Polly Borland Puts Her Nude Selfies...
Of her new project ’Nudie’ the legendary L.A.-based photographer says, ’It was time for me to do what I’d done to others’
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Most photographers love having the ability to hide behind the camera, relishing the agency it affords them. Melbourne-born, Los Angeles-based Polly Borland isn’t immune to these pleasures. “I like photography because it’s about control,” Borland says on a Zoom call from her native Australia, where she’s spent the entirety of the pandemic.
Though Borland devoted the first three decades of her career to crafting decadent, erotic, and uncannily hypnotic images of others, she’s rarely trained her lens on herself. For her breakout series, The Babies , she documented a group of infantilist fetishists. After discovering actress Gwendoline Christie in a Brighton boutique called Pussy, she made the future Game of Thrones actress the subject of the visual fairytale, Bunny . And for her Smudge , Pupa , and Morph series, she ensconced various models in layers of nude and high-chroma pantyhose.
“The reason I wouldn’t have done it when I was younger was that I was too vain,” she says of turning the camera on herself. But after being stuck in Melbourne while trying to get her green card sorted, Borland and her family—her husband is director John Hillcoat and her son Louie, aka Sleepie Louie , is an aspiring hip-hop artist and CalArts student—they decided to take their first vacation in years in the lush seaside enclave of Byron Bay.
Once Borland realized that the isolated New South Wales beach town wasn’t as hard hit by COVID as places like Los Angeles, she started working in earnest on a selfie-inspired series she’d begun while traveling in Greece. “It was like pulling teeth, this body of work. I’m usually looking through the camera and I’ve got complete control. But I kind of knew I was going to need to use the iPhone,” says Borland, who had always shot film before this project. “I didn’t know how to do it in a way where I had some objectivity. I was using my hand and getting the camera pointed at me or the iPhone and eventually I got a selfie stick and that kind of worked a little bit better, but not really, and then I brought my selfie stick with me to Australia and I started using it as a tripod and that meant I had more control over the arrangement of the body.”
Borland and her L.A. dealer, Nino Mier, who will open an exhibition featuring 14 of the artist’s new photos at his latest space in West Hollywood on Saturday, May 15, consider this recent body of work, dubbed Nudie , to be the most revealing of her career, both literally and figuratively.
“It’s the best work I’ve ever done,” says Borland.
This new series of confounding, compelling, and closely cropped self-portraits of her naked body was created by Borland contorting her skin into undulating landscapes that look like classical, if slightly psychedelic, statuary. It’s a study in radical vulnerability and the death of ego as it relates to the ageism and sexism implicit in selfie culture. And it’s actually quite a labor-intensive labor of love.
“It’s really hard because I’m having to balance. Basically I ate my way through COVID, the lockdown and after, and it’s only now that I’ve been able to do these yoga intensives that ironically all the fat is going,” says Borland. “I was fatter than I’ve ever been before. People say, ‘You’re so brave.’ I don’t think it’s brave it was just the next step. But my husband can’t even look at them and John isn’t fainthearted about anything. I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I have to do this, and I’m doing it.’”
We talked to Borland about the experience of turning the lens on herself.
Do you think you’ve always been working toward this, that every body of work was a self-portrait in a way? Even though you’re photographing other people, it’s all sort of about you, to me anyway.
No, definitely. I think the main point of it was that I felt there’s some resentment by one of the people I’ve photographed and she felt taken advantage of or embarrassed that she had been naked even though it was really her decision. It ended up being really quite complicated. I read somewhere that when someone sits for you it’s like a transaction and unless it’s very clear what the transaction is, what happens is people have different expectations as to what the outcome is going to be.
Exactly, so the whole thing becomes complicated with psychology and desire. The crux of the matter is that it was time for me to do what I’d done to others. I’ve never been comfortable in my own skin, never felt comfortable in my own body. I was a chubby child. I was one of six sisters, all slender and beautiful. My mother had a food disorder, she was virtually anorexic. She smoked and drank and didn’t eat. Fed all of us, she was a brilliant cook, but I was a chubby child. I still am a comfort eater. I used to be called “Fatty” in the family even though I wasn’t fat, I was chubby, and I think that I just never felt comfortable. This new work isn’t sexualized at all and a lot of my other work is and people have asked me about the sexy stuff in my work and I cannot figure that out. I don’t know where that comes from. I’ve tried to analyze it, but with this work that is non-existent. And a lot of feminist women have said the sexy stuff in my work is not about the male gaze, it’s much more a woman’s view. My work is gritty. It’s not pretty pretty. For me, I feel like I’ve got nothing more to hide. My life has been spent on hiding the fact that I did not feel attractive.
You say that but you’re a style icon to so many people— maybe that’s a separate identity from this Nudie work. There’s the iconography, and maybe this is a totally different thing.
I think it’s me using my body as sculpture. I think the work is very sculptural and I think probably after Morph , where I dressed up [model] Sibylla [Phipps], who is in all the costumes, it was really soft sculpture. There were reveals of body parts through the stocking fabric, but I think it was time to get rid of all that it was a stripping back of all the props and there’s the flesh. I started shooting this a few years ago but I hadn’t really nailed it, so I was intermittently shooting it.
No, it was in Greece. I started shooting shadows of myself in Antiparos. I continued shooting these shadows and that’s where the idea came from, me photographing my own shadow and then it came into this idea of selfies. First it was random, looking for a way in, and over time I realized what was working, which is, “What you’re looking at isn’t what you’re looking at.” You can probably tell what part of the body it is, but what angle is it?
That takes away any gaze or any sexuality because when you first sent them to me absent of any text explaining it I wasn’t sure at first if I was looking at a human or some other sculptural form.
Yeah [laughs] the ones I like the best are the weirdest.
The one with the fist smashing into your skin is amazing.
Well that I took very early on, that I took in L.A. and that became the beginning.
So what the hell are you doing to create these forms. If you step back and let the body come to it sort of has this weird, intense yoga sensibility.
Yeah, I started doing all these yoga intensives here because COVID isn’t as bad where I am as it is in the rest of the world. I started yoga in lockdown over Zoom with a yoga teacher in Melbourne and I’m in New South Wales. It’s ashtanga yoga and it’s the one thing I managed to do in lockdown and I just kept going. I wasn’t doing any exercise and I wasn’t even motivated to do walks and I’m in a really beautiful part of New South Wales.
Have you been there the whole pandemic?
Yeah, we came here for a holiday waiting for our green card, and then the green card didn’t arrive. One of our documents were out of date, and this guy sent us away and said it would take three weeks. This was the beginning of March and I said, “We’ve got to get back to L.A.” In actual fact all the governments knew what was coming and nobody was being told. We went back to Melbourne where mine and my husband’s families were and I said, “Let’s not stay here, let’s go on a holiday, we havent’ been on a holiday in years and we’ve never been to Byron Bay so we came to Byron Bay and a few days later lockdown happened. Byron Bay is a seaside town and it’s attracted a lot of different types of people. Every time we went to get food we put a mask on disinfect all the packaging. We were in a six-week lockdown and then slowly we reemerged and it took a while to realize that COVID hadn’t really hit here.
Isolated and Australia locked the borders down. They locked Chinese people out early on and then hotel quarantine was put in place right at the beginning, so they closed all the borders. Australia is very good at that because it’s one of the most racist countries. It’s really well hidden. Everyone thinks Australia is like Canada. It’s not. It’s got some of the harshest immigration laws of any country. They’ve built offshore detention centers for people who have tried to get here by boat and there’s no hope to get processed they can only go back to the countries where they may be killed. And then recently they’ve brought a lot of asylum seekers to Australia for medical care and they’ve been put in hotels, in locked rooms with no fresh air for 24 hours a day and they still haven’t received any medical attention. It’s against all human rights. Amnesty International, the UN, have all condemned Australia for these practices. I just found out the other day that Australia is not part of the UN Human Rights chapter and they’ve made up their own laws and they don’t seem to care. It’s this island mentality and the population has been brought up on this fear of invasion even though the white, European Australians are the original invaders. It’s unbelievable and the indigenous Australians are still treated despicably and there’s never been a reckoning. In school I was brought up thinking it was a peaceful transfer of land. No, it wasn’t. It’s very like America.
It’s interesting because while you’re stuck there in that idyllic but also fraught political climate there is this reckoning taking place in America, and very dramatically in Los Angeles, which is at the center of the COVID and social justice movements. I know you tried to get back to L.A., but do you think this work was made possible by being in this isolation there?
I tried immediately to start working but we were pretty traumatized being in so much fear because it was a total unknown as to what would happen with COVID. I got to work immediately but it wasn’t really until the last six months, maybe four months even, that I really started hitting it out of the park. The whole body of work, excuse the pun, it was really hard to do. I couldn’t get control or predetermine or even imagine what I was going to get. I couldn’t tell what was working and what wasn’t. It was just really difficult to do. Half the work was produced in the last four months.
It was my first time drawing and I started doing art classes. When everything started opening up someone told me about this art school, the Byron School of Art, that’s about three-quarters of an hour away from me. A friend was giving me a tour of all the schools and galleries around the area, but they had painting and ceramics classes. I’m pretty well-known in Australia, but I went in and they’re all working artists, and I said, “I hear you do art classes, I’d like to take a painting class.” And they started laughing at me. I said, “No, I’m serious.”
I could imagine the looks on their faces. Do you like it?
It’s fantastic. It’s in this incredible old warehouse and you can do one-off, six-week courses. So I signed up for this oil painting course and it was still life and I was like, “I don’t know about this guys.” And they were like, “Just do it, it’s going to be fun.” So basically i’m now in my second semester and I’m doing a painting course with one of the owners of the school. He’s an abstract painter. Still life wasn’t really my bag, but I’m sure I learned something. I’d never really used any paint before. This one I’m using gouache and it’s abstract and I absolutely fucking love it, Michael. I’m not a painter but the teacher said, “All you need is to understand the materiality of paint, what it can do, and you’re going to be able to paint.” I love photography, but I love documentary photography. I suppose that relates to what I’m doing now. I’ve gotten rid of all the props. The Babies is still one of my most groundbreaking bodies of work.
Well, your work seems to delight in exposing these subcultures or secret desires and maybe, in this case, this secret terrain of your body. But this is the first body of work you’ve done digitally. How do you think this new work relates to The Babies or shooting Nick Cave or the Queen of England?
Obviously it’s a play on the whole selfie culture. They’re not really selfies. It’s me, but are they selfies? I think it’s me exposing myself actually. I think all my work on an aesthetic level, there’s a simplicity, there’s almost a classical framing, so I think I’m always getting rid of mess from the frame. So I can see the link aesthetically. I got stuck in the portrait thing. In art school the photography department I was over influenced by what people told me. One of the lecturers told me, “Oh you can do fashion.” Portraits always came easy to me because I was always interested in other people. I was involved in the punk scene in Melbourne, but I was also an observer. I was photographing artists as well for some alternative magazine. I shot Tony Clark wrapped in a sheet like a Greek statue and Nick Cave saw that photo and sought me out to photograph him.
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