So last Friday we had a nude photography session.

Nude photography is different. And not just because the model doesn’t have clothes on. Suddenly, the entire body is your subject. When what you see is pretty much what you get, the beauty of the photographs comes from the angles, the light and shades falling on your subject, the unique cropping of frames (where sometimes you can’t even tell who or even what is photographed) and generally speaking – your creativity.

We met with Rodi Almog at the abandoned train station in Jerusalem. A beautiful location, with big (broken) windows and holes in the roof, making the sun rays light up the area in many different (and amazing) styles. Graffiti all over making a very interesting background. Isolation helped make sure we won’t be bothered by anybody.

There was nothing pornographic about this encounter. Not even erotic in my opinion. Sure, after Rodi has given us the guidelines for the session, there was the first moment of embarrassment when Navit took off her dress and you realize that there’s a naked woman standing in the room with you and ten other people holding cameras. Rodi also kept instructing Navit on how to pose next, something most of us were too shy to do. But throughout the session, everyone were focused on the next frame, and where to take the shot from:

All in all, this was fun. I loved the location. The coffee break in the middle was welcomed. I got more than 600 photos there. 100 were deleted straight off the camera. Choosing the above four was no simple task. Uploading these also wasn’t easy. But once again, this course has proved to be an amazing experience, exposing me once again to something I haven’t done yet…