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merci,

:~)…h.

et toi aussi, audrey……

just wrote this to hillary
¨there is something about nakedness which really feels special to us all i guess..
i don´t mean sexiness nor titillation.. just nakedness..

photography misses that so very often.. the work either becomes twisted into sexual or darkly thought provoking meanings..
while what i felt when i looked at you work was.. well.. about 8 years old :ø)

seeing the skin without adult concerns.. without sexual intentions and with the most amazing relaxation and feeling of connectedness with people.¨

I’m happy for you !! Hope to meet you soon !

best, audrey

Are you intresting for the next Festival, May 2010 ?

Best Regards

Bruno rédarès

President of Festival Européen de la Photo de Nu – Arles / France

Are you intresting for the next festival, may 2010 ?

Best Regards

Bruno Rédarès

President of Festival Européen de la photo de nu Arles/France

Thanx for your advice in the beginning, you helped more than you know…

Special places are everywhere and I for one would be grateful to know of them!
I think it’s those secret, magical places that need to be shared…
When I am in there, I am reminded that there is so much love and beauty in this world, amidst all the chaos…I am reminded that everything is connected on this planet…the more people that have that experience or their own, the better off we all will be in my opinion…

BB is a community but also a business and does have a max capacity…rustic, off the beaten path, only a select few will really find it…really love it…we all have a love for different things….but, like anything you discover that you are drawn to…you just go!

When will I see you there….

hillary

When you first mentioned this project to me, I had something much more mundane in mind, like some kind of public hot springs with guys in bathing caps something. This really is something special, and I hope you make a book out of it! Although, it almost feels like you’re letting us all in on a big secret, of some kind of magical place that only a select few should know about…

Anyway, congrats!!

chris

I have always been a fan of your photos and look forward to seeing more from you.

love always,
alice

looking on nudist sites….can’t really find Breitenbush…not sure where you are getting your info…
BB is a cooperative of about 65 peeps that own and operate a retreat and conference center…hundreds of people come each week to stay as their guests.

again, this is a work in progress and the slideshow, my first attempt at showing these images to anyone.

FYI…http://www.breitenbush.com/

peace,
hilary

I knew you would say that about the verticals…can’t help it, I wanted to mix it up a bit…for me it was a conscious decision as it went with the feeling of an ebb and flow of bodies of water….but yes..tweaking awaits this body of work…

Thank you so much for, well, everything….Eric said it best on his last post…”you have acted as a catalyst for so many out there and you are still giving to so many that kick to get out and shoot, produce work…” I look forward to working with you whenever you get a moment….:~)

Like I said earlier, the 20×24 B&W print awaits you in NYC as well anything others you ask for….

h.

I sent you an email yesterday. Keep a look out for it please.

Seriously, they need to work on their image, then. It’s highly rated on most nudist destination websites on the web.

I think your images work very well as fine art. I really don’t think they work well as an essay, especially one this long, though. I’m ambivalent about the music, but that’s a personal thing, I guess.

Put some of these in a book in the right sequence with some text – maybe poetry – and these would work very well.

Excellent essay. Beautiful, classic. There is only one problem…. I need… I want more…. It should be a book or big exhibition. Very carefuly selected photos. One hundred photos.
Beautiful photos.
Hats off.

Thanks for this work; beautiful, sensual, connecting…

You say that you are ‘trying to evoke emotional responses in others to act care and about this planet, its ecosystems and endangered creatures.’ There is no doubt, in my opinion, that you succeed and draw us to this response at a very visceral, primitive level.

A lovely piece of work. Congratulations.

thank you for explaining your work and your reasoning so clearly….i think you are now ready for a book, or at least very close, and i want to work with you towards this end….

at first, i must admit i did feel you bent a bit too much towards illustrating the music….on the other hand, i totally see why you did it as a truly symbiotic exercise…and since i always feel that a slide show is its own medium, i think overall this works nicely….in a perfect world, i might have suggested trying to do the show with all horizontals as well…verticals in a slide show really jump out a bit awkward imo….as you point out, perhaps for your own portfolio of images for a book or for an exhibition, you would choose a slightly tweaked edit….

i am counting on you for some prints for our BURN gallery….you are certainly going to be quite collectible….

i look forward to seeing you in Charlottesville….

cheers, david

Before I began this project I thought deeply about what I wanted to create and explore, knowing that the process would lead me on a journey towards discovering new artistic territory and a reconnection with what inspired me about photography and art in the first place. I returned to a place that was my home and friends that supported me in exploring art and passion. Breitenbush is an amazing community, off the grid in the forests of Oregon, powered by the river, cabins heated geothermaly and the lives of its community members intertwined with nature. Clothing is optional only around the pools, sauna and the river, it is an intentional community, not a nudist colony.

At the moment, my photography is about being playful and free, finding the surreal in the reality of the natural world and to tap into something that lurks beneath the surface, opening doors of my own perceptions. Starting with an idea and finding something that emerges from the process that is familiar and also a new discovery.

For over a decade I have used primarily slide film and was careful and precise in what i captured in emulsion. For years I think I was rigid in what I photographed, the cost of film and development a real factor. I love photographing the natural world, both underwater and above. Concerned with environmental conservation and creating a direct representation of what I travel so many miles in the wilderness to capture and share, trying to evoke emotional responses in others to act care and about this planet, its ecosystems and endangered creatures.

A couple of years ago I bought my first digital camera and used it in the same way. However after several portfolio reviews…the same response…”wonderful use of color, composition, light, etc…seen hundreds of images like this…where are YOU in these images?”. I thought very hard about what that really meant and maybe now i am just beginning to grasp that concept…Digital capture has given me the freedom to experiment and make mistakes and I love and learn from the serendipitous events.

During this last year I wanted to push my own boundaries and leave my comfort zone…The start was photographing people which I shied away from entirely since my first experience photographing Native Americans, who were not so keen on me photographing them when I was young and even more naive. I took David’s workshop to explore these insecurities and found that stories can evolve from editing and form essays with literal or esoteric meaning.

I have sought out new ways, but really old ways, of seeing and returned to my favorite artists in the halls of the MET, reading and looking at art and photos, searching within to understand what I was excited about when I saw these works of art year after year since childhood…for me it is the surrealist and expressionist paintings and some of the impressionists and several photographers that encourage and inspire a passion that I am just now beginning to understand.

As for the mix of color, B&W, film and digital….I want to utilize all the tools available to me in the photographic medium and it is this experimentation that excites me at the moment. Maybe it is the indecision to commit to a certain film or digital capture but life encompasses everything and i want to explore life and photography to find in art and myself something different and which boundaries I can push to propel my artistic expression. A Hasselblad, a Minox and 15 rolls of B&W infrared film await me at home and I am excited to put them to use…as well as the digital camera and Nkonos V I have been using.

This submitted essay, in hot water…, started as a portfolio of images which I had planed to tightly edit. David suggested putting it to music or audio but I needed permission from the artist. Alice Di Micele is a close personal friend of mine for maybe 15 years now, we have rafted down the Grand Canyon/ Colorado rive together and many of her songs are about water. I did not have to look very hard to find a song that resonated with what I felt about this body of work. Alice gave me permission and I chose each image carefully to flow with the lyrics. Even though I work with photographs and created this piece for a photo web site, the music, as another art form, could not be separated if used together. I feel the lyrics had to be equal if used in conjunction with the images, which is why there are more than I would have used if i were to show just a solid portfolio of photographs…

Well, I hope this very long post explains a little bit more of my process and choices, I apologize for not responding sooner but I am at my brother’s college graduation this weekend and this was the first chance I have had to respond…again…THANK YOU!!!!!

Peace and Love,

Hillary