{"id":668,"date":"2017-08-11T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejmillerfineart.com\/news\/?p=668"},"modified":"2017-09-04T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T05:20:12","slug":"purposeful-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ejmillerfineart.com\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/purposeful-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Purposeful Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I take photos everywhere I go, but I don’t often shoot with the sense of purpose that moves craft into art. For that reason I rarely share my photographs in any organized way.<\/p>\n

But every once in a while, a meaningful project comes along. This one includes nudity. And skulls.<\/p>\n

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Over the past few years, I’ve become more and more aware of the necessity to see the beauty in ourselves as we see it in the rest of the world. I spent my teenage years photographing the beauty of imperfection in nature and machinery, while picking apart every flaw in my own body. <\/p>\n

What if we were raised to acknowledge and accept ourselves, and our beauty, just as we are?<\/p>\n

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I feel there is still room in the world for more beautiful, personal nude photographs of different body types. Thanks to Tyler Thrasher’s nude nature series<\/a> for starting that conversation. <\/p>\n

The skulls and haku lei come from the model’s personal collection. She is a talented artist whose work deals with the processes of life and death. Thanks to Wiley<\/a> for being an amazing artist, model and friend. And thanks to Tim Gabriel<\/a> and Joyce Gabriel<\/a> for providing an absolutely magical setting.<\/p>\n

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