The Nu Project by Matthew Blum |
My work is about telling stories, my goal to reveal each woman's life story through her body, in her home." Matthew Blum is an American photographer born in 1982 in Minneapolis. In his work he tries to capture images of women with complete naturalness and confidence in their home environment. His focus is on the person, not the eroticism. Tell stories about people.
His main work is The Nu Project, where he shows his photography on women (and occasionally also men) of all races, continents and, above all, body types.
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The inspiration of other artists |
Starting from the original idea of Blum, I have added the inspiration of other artists, photography and painting, to form a starting idea that has as its main inspiration the focus placed more on naturalness and everyday life than on eroticism itself. I want to avoid the sexualization of the works.
Below I show some of the significant examples that I have collected that can serve as a reference when conceiving my project. The environment in which the scene takes place is of great importance, as can be seen.
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The "Blum" Project
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The starting idea of my project is to capture everyday images of people in their home, in the most natural way possible. I want to avoid the unnecessary sexualization that I have perceived in large part of the images that I have previously proposed as an inspiration.
Nudity yes, but not unnecessary. I don't want to paint a picture of someone who walks around their house, drinks coffee or puts the washing machine without clothes as if it were a porn video. There must be a natural and habitual reason, it must transmit it. The ideal settings for this are the bathroom or the bedroom. I do not want to limit the presence of eroticism, but only if it is natural and daily. Likewise, I want to pay close attention to the details of the environment, which is so important because it makes an indispensable ensemble with the person.
The intention is to give it a look of background textures with old paper and the use of brushes and vintage printing techniques, halftones and scratches and blemishes.
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