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Naked Mole Rat

Australian photographer Bill Henson is sometimes controversial, because he frequently photographs nude teenagers. I guess a few of those photos are a bit edgy. The majority of his photos are benign portraits of humans in a confusing transitional period in their lives. A lot of mixed physical and emotional feelings.

I'm not overly fond of his images. Most of them are too underexposed. Here are five that I kind of like.

CW: Nudity

#art #photography #ArtNude #NudeArt

Two teenagers. In front is a clothed girl. She is facing to the side, but she is looking right at us. She is holding a bottle of an alcoholic beverage. A short distance behind her and slightly out of focus is a nude teenage boy. He is facing in our direction. The photo is cropped so we can only see from his head to the top of his pubic hair. The photo is perfectly ambiguous yet tense with this cropping. The girl's expression is ambiguous. Is she asking for our opinion, or is she trying to conceal her decision? Should she leave, or should she stay and let nature take its course?
The upper third of a nude teenager of ambiguous gender, mostly facing us, but looking off to the side, lost in thought.
The upper third of a young nude teenage girl. Her body is facing 45 degrees to our right, but she is mostly looking in our direction. Her breasts are just starting to develop.
Two smaller images. I couldn't find them in bigger sizes, so I'm presenting them together. The photo on the left is an overhead view of a slim, nude teenage boy lying on his back on a couch. We can see from the top of his head to his knees. His head is pointing to the right. He is probably asleep.

The photo on the right is of a nude teenage girl. She is standing and facing us, but her head is pointing down and looking at something in her hands. The photo stops right above her knees. Her breasts are just starting to develop.
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@nakedmolerat The photos you selected I liked very much. I don't see anything extreme, just good sincere portraits.

Naked Mole Rat

@contrinitiator
I made sure I selected good, wholesome art images.

From reading the several articles I found, I got the impression that only a few were legitimately controversial. They showed naked teenagers having sex. If I saw any of those images, they were not explicit.

With those sorts of photos you run into the problem of photographer's intent. Is he documenting real life, or is he trying to arouse sexual feelings in the viewer?

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@nakedmolerat Well it's a known problem of art at the border of pornography. I believe the viewer's perception plays a bigger role here.
I'll try to find his other works, thanks for finding them!

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@nakedmolerat@body.social я же правильно понимаю, что, по сути, все сервера, у которых сфедерировалась эта запись, имеют в бд фотографии голых подростков?
Ну я так, просто спросил ​:cringe_hmm:​

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@nakedmolerat@body.social (естественно, если кэширование медиа на серверах отключено, то и проблем нет)

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