They were almost all in their mid-twenties and very fit. Initially, almost all of the models I was working with were agency models and fine-art figure models used to posing nude. You use models of all shapes and sizes, was that always the plan? Photo courtesy Vince Hemingsonįriends, acquaintances, casting calls, people I’ve never met before on the street. I now have the luxury of having people approach me because they’ve seen my work and would like to collaborate.
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Soar from the Nude in the Landscape series by Vince Hemingson. In most cases the best way to see and appreciate the tattoo was without the distraction of clothes. I started shooting nudes again specifically because I was photographing people with large tattoos and extensive body art. I was a painter before I was a photographer, so to do a figure class with a nude model seemed the most natural thing in the world. When did you decide to start shooting nudes - and why? Working with National Geographic in the late nineties and early 2000s on a documentary series, I found photography a welcome diversion from the responsibilities of being a producer, writer and reluctant on-camera host.Īfter some early success with stock images, I thought that, in a perfect world, I’d much prefer to focus on photography. As a college student, I travelled to Poland with (Canadian writer and commentator) Stan Persky and did the principal photography for his book, At the Lenin Shipyard: Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union. But I was always an avid amateur photographer. It was a transformative experience to see images emerge in a tray of developer and added a powerful alchemical and magical element to the process of making art.Īt the time I don’t think I ever considered it as a career.
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I learned how to process film and use a darkroom in high school in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island. When did you first know you wanted to become a photographer? Hemingson says the black and white photos of naked women “juxtapose the delicacy and fragility of the female form against the scale and rugged grandeur of the landscape, contrasting the textures and tones between those two elements, and examining the relationship between the viewer and the subject.”Ĭurious as to how - and why - Hemingson began photographing women in their natural state, the Courier had some questions for the artist about his craft. Photographer Vince Hemingson's latest body of work is called, Nude in the Landscape.