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Prelude:
“For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”
- from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Write Up
Requiem for a Dream is my favorite movie. Okay it’s not my favorite movie, but it’s up there. I’m unable to disclose my favorite at the moment. Perhaps in the future, but not right now. It was the year 2014 at the ripe age of 20 that I first watched Requiem for a Dream. And it was at this time that I first laid eyes on Jennifer Connelly in the nude. And if you’ve ever seen the movie, you’ll know that she had very visible pubic hair. I myself have quite a complicated relationship with body hair. If one can even have a ‘relationship’ with hair on their body. Personally, I hate it. If I had the option to stop the growth of hair everywhere on my body expect for my head and face, I’d take it. For whatever reason I find it gross. But when I laid eyes on Jennifer Connelly that day I did not find it gross. I found it attractive in a way that was far too confounding to put into words. Perhaps it was the juxtaposition between something that I thought to be gross (body hair) with something so beautiful (Jennifer Conelly) which ended up burning the image into my head. But whatever it was, the image was certainly memorable and I am able to conjure it up in my head today with ease. Seeing Jennifer Connelly in the nude in that movie changed me. I strongly believe that viewing images can alter your life. This is why I have always had such a profound appreciation for imagery. Images motivate. They make me want more. They make me want to do more, to see more, to live more. Okay fine, but what does this have to do with the image I collected? Well, take a look below:
If you read the first part above then there should be no secret with regards to what drew my attention to this image. In her words, Kristina uses photography as an instrument to overcome personal and social denial of the naked body. I like this a lot. Back when I was in college, I took a course on Pop Culture and had a professor (Joseph Church) who encouraged us to not look at art from the lens of negative judgement, but rather to look at it from the lens of understanding. Negative judgement puts up a wall such that you will never be able to experience the emotions and feelings that come from trying to understand. The pubic hair sticks out to me. It’s beautiful. The photo is eerie. The detail on the weeds and background are blurred such that the model comes to the forefront of my attention. Sure, most photos are staged, but this doesn’t feel staged. From the moment I first laid eyes on the photo I could already see the model running not posing. Is she running or is she about to do an about-face? The middle of the back of her head almost makes the shape of a face. Was this planned? I included below a quote from Dazed and Confused to describe Kristina’s work, ‘…push the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image.” Maybe that’s why I can’t get that picture of Jennifer Connelly out of my head.
Postlude
Kristina Podobed is a talented photographer based in Kyiv, Urkaine. Dazed and Confused has described her photography in the following way “Kristina Podobed’s photography is there to catch you off-guard, to push you to the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image.”
You can find Kristina on Twitter: Here
Her work is on Foundation and Known Origin
She also has a really cute three year old boy pictured below 🙂
Prelude:
“For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.”
- from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Write Up
Requiem for a Dream is my favorite movie. Okay it’s not my favorite movie, but it’s up there. I’m unable to disclose my favorite at the moment. Perhaps in the future, but not right now. It was the year 2014 at the ripe age of 20 that I first watched Requiem for a Dream. And it was at this time that I first laid eyes on Jennifer Connelly in the nude. And if you’ve ever seen the movie, you’ll know that she had very visible pubic hair. I myself have quite a complicated relationship with body hair. If one can even have a ‘relationship’ with hair on their body. Personally, I hate it. If I had the option to stop the growth of hair everywhere on my body expect for my head and face, I’d take it. For whatever reason I find it gross. But when I laid eyes on Jennifer Connelly that day I did not find it gross. I found it attractive in a way that was far too confounding to put into words. Perhaps it was the juxtaposition between something that I thought to be gross (body hair) with something so beautiful (Jennifer Conelly) which ended up burning the image into my head. But whatever it was, the image was certainly memorable and I am able to conjure it up in my head today with ease. Seeing Jennifer Connelly in the nude in that movie changed me. I strongly believe that viewing images can alter your life. This is why I have always had such a profound appreciation for imagery. Images motivate. They make me want more. They make me want to do more, to see more, to live more. Okay fine, but what does this have to do with the image I collected? Well, take a look below:
If you read the first part above then there should be no secret with regards to what drew my attention to this image. In her words, Kristina uses photography as an instrument to overcome personal and social denial of the naked body. I like this a lot. Back when I was in college, I took a course on Pop Culture and had a professor (Joseph Church) who encouraged us to not look at art from the lens of negative judgement, but rather to look at it from the lens of understanding. Negative judgement puts up a wall such that you will never be able to experience the emotions and feelings that come from trying to understand. The pubic hair sticks out to me. It’s beautiful. The photo is eerie. The detail on the weeds and background are blurred such that the model comes to the forefront of my attention. Sure, most photos are staged, but this doesn’t feel staged. From the moment I first laid eyes on the photo I could already see the model running not posing. Is she running or is she about to do an about-face? The middle of the back of her head almost makes the shape of a face. Was this planned? I included below a quote from Dazed and Confused to describe Kristina’s work, ‘…push the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image.” Maybe that’s why I can’t get that picture of Jennifer Connelly out of my head.
Postlude
Kristina Podobed is a talented photographer based in Kyiv, Urkaine. Dazed and Confused has described her photography in the following way “Kristina Podobed’s photography is there to catch you off-guard, to push you to the boundaries where intimacy and vulgarity suddenly merge to create a rough and honest image.”
You can find Kristina on Twitter: Here
Her work is on Foundation and Known Origin
She also has a really cute three year old boy pictured below 🙂
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