Nude and Dunes, by Simon Chaput

I love these Nude series from the photographer Simon Chaput (French, born in 1952, currently living in New York) and had to share it.

Commenting on his work, Simon Chaput explains how the nude series started in Death Valley. He was interrested by the abstract qualities of the sand dunes however while on location in Death Valley he could shoot only one hour at sunrise and one at sunset. While shooting, he realized that landscape could be a body and the body could become the landscape so he came back to New York and started shooting in his studio where he could control the light and thereby the form. The body became the landscape. The work is about playing with shape, light, negative space and abstraction.