Preserve the body as an image
The light of skin, the line of a shoulder, a standing or reclining figure, a gaze, a hand, a leg, and the movement of the body can become the centre of the work.
Art Nude / Bodily Expression / Tokyo
Would you like to preserve the beauty of your body as a photographic work—or enter a photographic world as an actress?
This page is for women interested in art nude photography and photographic work involving bodily expression. No previous modeling, shooting, or acting experience is required.
Photography © FUJIYOSHI Takao
Body / Beauty / Presence
Art nude photography begins here with the living body as expression: its line, skin, posture, movement, breath, feeling, tension, calm, and presence.
A role inside the image
The body can hold beauty, atmosphere, time, feeling, and story.
You may appear with your own face and name, performing through your body. You may instead become an anonymous actress, present through posture, movement, light, and form.
Hiding and showing, stillness and movement, tension and ease, strength and softness—all can become expressions inside the photograph.
Body / Presence / Photographic Fiction
Beauty / Story / Actress
The aim is not simply to record nudity. It is to make photographs in which the body carries a role and becomes part of a larger image, story, place, or encounter.
The light of skin, the line of a shoulder, a standing or reclining figure, a gaze, a hand, a leg, and the movement of the body can become the centre of the work.
The photograph can hold a character, a room, a city, an encounter, or a fiction that exists only for that session.
You may appear with your face and name, or as an anonymous actress whose body and movement carry the photograph.
Not simply a body in front of the camera.
FUJIYOSHI Takao / FOXTROT
An actress within a photographic world.
Published work / Private memory
You do not need to decide everything before making contact. We can first discuss what kind of photographs you want, whether you appear openly or anonymously, and what should happen to the photographs afterward.
When the photographs can be made and publicly presented as FUJIYOSHI’s work—and developed into the website, exhibitions, photobooks, ZINEs, prints, or editions—there is no photography fee and no model fee.
When the photographs are made only for your own private memory and are not published as the photographer’s work, the session is a paid photography commission.
Published work and private photographs can also be combined. We can discuss the balance before the shoot.
Photographer
A professional photographer since 1992, with 20 solo photography exhibitions and a continuing photographic practice in Tokyo.
I photograph the work myself. The photography begins with the individual woman—her presence, her body, and the kind of image she wants to enter.
Begin with a conversation
You may already know exactly what you want, or only feel that you want to go deeper than an ordinary portrait. Either is enough to begin.
We can begin by email, or talk over coffee or beer in Tokyo.
The form covers both participation in FUJIYOSHI’s published photographic work and private commissioned art nude photography.