Natasha, our guest judge of the Fine Art Nudes Photo Contest, is a professional photographer currently living in Paris and specializes in nude photography. To learn more about Natasha and view some of her work please visit her website.
When did you get started in photography?
I took my first steps in photography during early adolescence with the grandpa's old Svema. I remember trying to make some self-portraits in a telephone box. I got into photography more seriously many years later after having read "Camera Lucida" by Roland Barthes.
What is your favorite camera and why?
I shoot with everything that comes in my hands, but I have particular tenderness for slower, older, film cameras, like my 6x7 Mamiya. I take much more pleasure working with film. There is an element of surprise in analog photography that is absent in digital photography.
Who are your favorite photographers and what do you like about them?
Francesca Woodman remains one of my favourite photographers, I never have enough of her. The trip inside her mind that she offers us though her photography is always full of unexpected things. I like artists with beautiful mysterious minds.
