Elsa, As an artist and naturist I appreciate your focus on the human form in nature. As a historian I appreciate your efforts to again bring the vulva into the light and normalize it. A generation ago Nick Karras published the book "Petals" a photographic documentation of a variety of vulva. His show was exhibited internationally and a movie was made about the process. A century ago Albert Arthur Allen, one of the founders of what is now the 90-year-old Lupin Lodge Naturist Resort, had three projects underway. The first was taking photos of hundreds of American white women in an almost analytic manner, as he wanted to show them what the female form really looked like when free from corsets and bustles, that all bodies are different, and what is normal. He then started to do a set of women from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. He ultimately wanted to have a set of children, men, and women from all over the world to show the commonality and diversity of the human form. He too shot women in nature. See the 2001 book by Daile Kaplan "Premiere Nudes" and a previous 2024 Planet Nude episode on Albert Arthur Allen. https://www.planetnude.co/p/the-early-chapters-of-lupin-lodge
Oh wow, I love her photography- especially that it doesn't just show the human body but shows it as just one small ecological facet of a greater context in nature that so obviously visually fits like the last puzzle piece. And how courageous of her for trying new things and pushing societal barriers, be that on TV or on public websites. Thanks for this interview
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Elsa Marie Keefe has found healing and a sense of purpose in photographing the nude body in natural settings. https://freemannoone.substack.com/p/capturing-the-nude-form-in-nature
Elsa, As an artist and naturist I appreciate your focus on the human form in nature. As a historian I appreciate your efforts to again bring the vulva into the light and normalize it. A generation ago Nick Karras published the book "Petals" a photographic documentation of a variety of vulva. His show was exhibited internationally and a movie was made about the process. A century ago Albert Arthur Allen, one of the founders of what is now the 90-year-old Lupin Lodge Naturist Resort, had three projects underway. The first was taking photos of hundreds of American white women in an almost analytic manner, as he wanted to show them what the female form really looked like when free from corsets and bustles, that all bodies are different, and what is normal. He then started to do a set of women from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. He ultimately wanted to have a set of children, men, and women from all over the world to show the commonality and diversity of the human form. He too shot women in nature. See the 2001 book by Daile Kaplan "Premiere Nudes" and a previous 2024 Planet Nude episode on Albert Arthur Allen. https://www.planetnude.co/p/the-early-chapters-of-lupin-lodge
Great piece.
Enjoyed her attitude, I find myself totally enjoying being naked in nature.
Oh wow, I love her photography- especially that it doesn't just show the human body but shows it as just one small ecological facet of a greater context in nature that so obviously visually fits like the last puzzle piece. And how courageous of her for trying new things and pushing societal barriers, be that on TV or on public websites. Thanks for this interview