The human form... its beauty... the endless possibilities... it can convey so many stories.. so much meaning.

A good composition for me just feels right. Its almost like hunting...you just feel when the shot will work.

I always see the person in the models, not just the beautiful body. Maybe this is why many of my photos are kind of portaits... These are not models... they are people, people with stories, lives, families. Stories. Humans. They that allow me to photograph them. Thankyou!

Don't under estimate this. Being photographed is intrusive, invasive (even if your body is beautiful). Being naked is not easy... revelaing the self is far harder.

It always amuses me that while I have photographed so many different women.. somehow the photos look kind of the same. How can that be?? What am I really photographing? Can I be photographing some spiritual part of me.. Please explain!

Is she comfortable? Is she OK with this? Is this shot dumb? Are we just gawking at lovely girly bits? Am I dropping in to the so well worn rutts on visual cliche's? What the hell are we talking about?!... these are questions I ask myself.

I use Nikon cameras, with some old fixed focal length lenses. A camera can't make a good photo... only a good spirit/heart can (to that I endevour). My preference is for doing photos on location.. interesting, remote places with atmosphere, studios are can be cold & intimidating to the (so often inexperienced) model. Many of the women I photograph are not professional (maybe suprisingly, most all model for the experience, not for payment)... some have only been photographed just the once.

I could shoot with a camera empty of film. The experience is to me priceless, divine... The photographs are almost like postcards from this ...inexplicable experience.

For a moment, for an hour, for a week for a month.. I have fallen in love with every woman I've photographed. Though not in a everyday way , its not emotional or even physical way (though that would be so totally understandable)... I cannot explain this.. this bizzaro kinda photographic love.

Many thanks to all the beautiful (wonderful) people that have shared this beautiful & odd experience, and helped me make these photographs.

... honestly, how could do this alone?!

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ian scrivener