Very little of what passes as “fine art nude” photography has anything to do with art.

Art always signifies—it says something, has meaning.

While digital imaging and the Internet have made nude imagery ubiquitous, one would be hard-pressed to make a case that much of this is more than entertaining, at best.

Our society’s many, contradictory attitudes toward our bodies, our sexuality, intimacy, and connections between persons make intelligent discourse—verbal or in images—very challenging. Anyone who claims to do “fine art nude photography” needs to have something to say on these issues, to understand what makes the camera especially apt for bearing his or her message, and to have the imagination and technical capacity to realize in his or her art something true.

Only a few of the images on this site can claim even to approach this standard.

I’m currently on hiatus from this work, in hopes of understanding better what would be required to do it well. Should I come back to it, I hope to do better in the future.

Bob Fancher