Guide to Unique Photography

David Nebrada, un chien Andalou

par Yannick Bouillis · visuels: David Nebrada

The work of Spanish photographer David Nebrada Madrid, 1952) could be said to appeal to the voyeur in all of us. Nebrada suffers from severe schizophrenia and lived in a psychiatric hospital where he refused to be treated.

The difference between nude and naked

Next June Rizzoli Publishers put out the book Jazz Age Beauties - The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston. It presents the work of a photographer whose recent reputation mostly depended on a small group of eBay photo dealers. One of these online treasure hunters is Robert Hudernovik. It took him years of study to compile this book with two hundred photos.

GUP meets Rutger ten Broeke

visuels: Rutger ten Broeke

The main photographic love of Rutger ten Broeke (62) is nudes. The former fashion photographer loves to have beautiful female bodies in front of his lens. But his love of photography is greater than this alone, in the past, he organised the first photograph auction in The Netherlands and ran his own gallery F.32. What is Ten Broeke doing now?

Hardcore printing

To allow a photograph to show it’s true beauty it has to be displayed properly. As an analogue or digital print, with or without frame.

Antoine d’Agata

visuels: Antoine d’Agata

The photos of Antoine d’Agata (Marseille, 1961) are rough and associative. The deliberate blur puts a haze over the images that makes them less accessible. D’Agata does not attempt to represent the world as it is, he tries to explain his own position in that world. Rather than a photo documentary, he reports about his own, intimate experiences.

The Naked City

visuels: Martijn de Vries

20 years ago, the biggest nuclear disaster ever took place in Tsjernobyl. Nowadays still a 30 km corridor prohibits the outside world from entering the contaminated site. Martijn de Vries (35) visited the site and abandoned city of Pripyat.

Give us our daily nude

par Jochem Rijlaarsdam

The moment that Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge was the end of their nudity. Ashamed of their disobedience to God, they covered their private parts with fig leaves and went from nude to naked. Nudity and nakedness features in all art forms, and the invention of photography left little concealed.

Sue Jones

visuels: Sue Jones

Sue Jones (42) will graduate from the Amsterdam Photo Academy in June of this year. Four years ago she started experimenting with nude photography. She finds inspiration in philosophy, sculpture and painting. Masters such as Mondriaan, Plato and Joel-Peter Witkin influence her work. In her work, Sue is constantly looking for balance.