someBODIES

Documenting history, location & time through the nude portrait of people that I meet around the world and in cyber space and social networks who are willing to share their bodies and their lives in order for me to document the random beauty that is evidenced in our variety in direct “titan-sized” portraits.

Decisions of size, scale, vantage point, and positions are the result of my need to depict these people in a way that celebrates yet confronts, that is matter of fact yet greater than or celebratory of, that shouts out and validates what is so unique about each of us, yet so universally shared in all of us. They challenge the notion that what is ideal and/or beautiful is not what Hollywood or magazines show us…but rather what nature and life provide. They are not nudes for the voyeur…yet admittedly acknowledge the fact that they have subjected themselves to be looked at. I have never been able to distance myself from the nude and create works that are just about the voyeur’s gaze and the appetite of looking. Indeed the nudes that I create challenge the viewer. They do not wait for the chance of a second glance seen discreetly from the side of one’s glasses. They stand face forward confronting the potential viewer, begging for conversation, soliciting more than a casual gaze. They are fully realized and titan-sized, positioned in a stance that make the viewer the object scrutinized. They stand blatantly aware, amassed together and force the audience to look within while looking at someBODIES.

I am looking for PEOPLE/models/someBODIES in every shade and color, from every nation all over the world and from every walk of life who are willing to share their faces and bodies and contribute to my projects….people who are authentic, REAL and understand the beauty in the representation of a body!

If you are interested in participating in any of my projects

please contact me at: matthewivancherry@yahoo.com