It takes a lot of guts to stand naked in front of a camera, to let it record, to let it see – you. To produce nude portraits. Some of these images have remained, fixed in tiny silver grains, for nearly thirty years. Then converted into electronic code they continue; their owners growing older, changing, dying, whilst they remain.
Others were created quite recently and are just beginning their journey to become a record of what was rather than what is.
Capture me
but capture my beauty
my happiness
and maybe a little sadness
These women maybe do not conform to society’s norm of body image but they are beautiful, sexy and confident.
Are they nude or naked? The definition
Now – let me think 
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There is a lot written in the media about body image; from those exposing the secret of how to get a perfect one to those celebrating selfies of mature women in bikinis.
To stand naked in front of a camera takes guts – it opens up the sitter to flattery or, from the more stupid in society ridicule. Earlier I used the word sexy – is this right? Or is that irrelevant – just a male point of view?
These photographs are just that – photographs. They are designed to be viewed and provoke a reaction in the viewer – beyond that they have no function.