Have you ever seen a male nude body?

If you’re female, when was the last time you looked at a completely naked male figure? And if you’re male, did you ever experience fully look at another man’s body?

Most people are uncomfortable with the idea of complete nakedness. Our automatic aversion to nudity may spring from the shackles of religious beliefs or the high moral standards set by society. Whatever the source of our discomfort, we react strongly to a nude figure.

Basically for protection, but more so out of modesty, we instinctively cover ourselves with clothes, and often layers of it, to hide the natural state of our individual nudity.

It is unfortunate that we carry excessively emotional and psychological viewpoint when it comes to the idea of nudity. Only a few of us can feel comfortable enough being naked or seeing naked. We hide, or it is hidden, from view, the nudity that is our natural human legacy.

Maybe, it is time that we confront our preconceived notions of nudity. If before we never even thought about it, and simply followed the norms and dictates of the society in which we live, maybe now is the time to take a stark look at the physical aspect of nakedness, and how we can accept it for what it is. That it is nothing more and nothing less than the fact.

Nudity should carry with it no negative, or even, positive view. Nudity should be naturally taken as an integral part of our being. We came into the world naked, and we will go out of this world naked as well. And in between, we are fully clothed? That doesn’t seem to make natural sense.

Let us open up. And enjoy the natural state of our being, which is the nakedness of our physical body. Let us marvel at the God-given gift our our physical, and even sexual, nature. Let us accept nudity as a normal part of our existential.

Throughout time, and throughout the history of mankind, the nude figure has been portrayed in art forms of many different ways. The various representation of nakedness, as proposed by many artists using all sorts of expressive medium, are there to make us realize and accept our natural state.

The last hundreds of years, with the rise of photography, talented artists have constructed, de-constructed and re-constructed our ideas and ideals of nudity in surprising ways. Photographic images of naked figures in a multitude of juxtaposition, shapes, forms, colors and sizes have assaulted our visual senses and continues to challenge our view and perception of nudity.

As photographers of our time and era, we consider it our sacred duty to continue the very long tradition of artists from all over the world, to portray the nude figure, both male and female, as we construct, de-construct and re-construct nudity. As photographers, we serve today as the link to the art of the past, and the art of the future.

The black-and-white photograph you see here is one of our interpretations of male nudity, in our own time.