The first time I have read the name Sergey Babenko was on Domai. His galleries there are beautiful and he has a lot of outstanding galleries, but for some reason he never made the list of my favorite photographers, but to be honest I never really took the time to evaluate his works from a neutral point of view, maybe I will do that later.
For some reason his name was resurrected in my head over the last week and I was curious to see some of his new works or some works of his that I haven't seen before, and by chance i came across this beautiful gallery of Nely in Liliac. Being the fan of simple nudes that I am I decided not to let this gallery go unnoticed and to share it with you.
So, what's the thing in this gallery that makes me consider it a beautiful gallery, well here's a short list:
1- The genitalia of Nely aren't made prominent.
2- The concentration is on the freedom that nudity offers.
3- Nely is smiling and is clearly having fun being there.
4- The location is great.
Those few elements sure will make any gallery catch my attention, as those elements are what make a gallery a beautiful one in my opinion.
I truly hope that you will take the time to enjoy those beautiful nudes of Nely from Met-Art and to be inspired by them.
It seems that there aren't a lot of photographers who appreciate the power of a model's smile. A smile in real life can make one's day, a smile from a relative or someone with which you share an intimate relationship can alleviate all of your pain, and a smile from a shopkeeper may make you always come back. I don't know why a lot of photographers seem to believe that it's any different with nude photography. A model's smile can indeed give the gallery a completely different sense, transforming it from a gallery of a tired model to a gallery of a young woman who's having fun being nude in nature without any unnecessary cultural constraints. I do judge a gallery by the look on the model's face, I hate the galleries of those models who look tired or even sick of the photographer, and those galleries are quite common. As a visitor of this website has told me "If there's no smile, it's not worthwhile".
I also prefer those galleries which are shot in nature because nature are a more hospitable environment for the models, there won't be anyone who's parasitically glazing at the model and making her uncomfortable and there won't be a lot of raised eyebrows or any gasps that she will hear as her photographs are being taken. I believe that some of those "public nudity" galleries are indeed humiliating for the models. This is another reason to prefer simple nudes to the other similar movements.
This gallery of Anna from Pretty Nudes is the perfect example of what I mean by saying that one feels that the model is a young woman having fun rather than feeling that she's there because the photographer is paying her some money. I rarely feature any galleries at which the model have that "I'd rather be somewhere else" look, if she wasn't very comfortable being there then I don't feel very comfortable looking at those pictures of her.
I hope that you will enjoy this wonderful Pretty Nudes gallery by Sergey Babenko.
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