When it comes down to art nudes, a woman photographer always have a different approach regarding the female nudes than her man colleagues and probably also the female models have a different opening in front of another woman than a man photographer.
Marina Romanoff capture the beauty from her own perspective and revels the charming naturalness and a particular kind of intimacy through her pictures.
Simple, but strong compositions, a subtle balance of lights and shadows, skillful sets which still seems snapshots from simple life, nothing artificial, nothing counterfeit, just life and beauty.

Marina Romanoff – Official Site
Marina Romanoff @ LiveJournal
Marina Romanoff @ Photodom
Marina Romanoff @ Facebook
For cooperation, E-mail: marishok@inbox.ru

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Eros = “Intimate Love”. In Greek mythology, was the primordial god of sexual love and beauty. He was also worshiped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart was Cupid – “desire”. Hesiod makes him a primordial god, while in some myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares.
Eros is one of the four words in Ancient Greek which can be rendered into English as "love". The other three are storge, philia and agape. “Eros” refers to "intimate love" or romantic love. “Storge” to affection or fondness. “Philia” to "brotherly love", or the love between family members or close friends. “Agape” refers to "selfless love", or “charity” as it is translated in the Christian scriptures. The term erotic is derived from eros. Eros has also been used in philosophy and psychology in a wider sense, almost as an equivalent to “life energy”.
In the classical world, the phenomenon of erotic love was generally understood as a kind of madness or, as the Greeks put it, theia mania – “madness from the gods”.

Mirabile Dictu… Beauty it’s a miracle? Not at all, but definitively it’s a treasure. And love is beautiful.
According to the dictionary, Mirabile Dictu is an expression in Latin, “mirabilis” means “wonderful”, while “dictum”, supine of “dico” means “speak” or “tell”. Roughly translated that means “It’s a miracle!”

Source and more pictures @ Photodom, Mirabile Dictu

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I already miss the summer. Well, it’s still warm outside, it’s quite possible to looking into a long and friendly fall, but the summer is the summer, and I really would enjoy 365 – 366 for leap years – days of summer.
Very few clothes – or no clothes at all – a sunny beach, the embracing waves, and girls, girls, girls. Goddamn, I love the summer! I love the smell of it, the sweet taste of it.
The summer’s gone. Left us with pockets full of memories and promises of the next one. “The smell of sunshine. I remember sometimes. I’ve done all I can do could I please come with you? sweet smell of sunshine. I remember sometimes … ”

In 1960 a Russian boy was born in the Moscow maternity hospital. His weight was just less than ten pounds. Nobody even thought that it was Vladimir Arkhipov – a future Russian star of photography.
A daredevil and bully he had a lot of troubles in the kindergarten, hardly graduated from high school and, overwhelmed with enthusiasm joined the Soviet Army’s airborne troops. Having done his military duty, young and self-assured Vladimir continued his education, and afterwards he worked as a guilloche artist in the State Department of Goznak, dealing with the protection of banknotes and documents with the help of patterns. When he had perfectly developed the skill of filigree he had changed his profession to a graphic artist in reconnaissance. Vladimir has even tried to get enrolled at the Physical Culture Institute but his unruly reputation prevented him from that. Finally, he got a job as a retoucher in the newspaper «The Soviet Russia», where he met his professional mentors, owing to whom the art of photography became his lifetime interest.
In 1990 he was generally recognized as an art photographer in the international charity auction in Toronto where Vladimir was the representative from the Soviet Union hand in hand with such great photographer as Helmut Newton. It was the unique situation of this event when all the photographs of one author were sold during some minutes. It was indisputable recognition of art photographer Vladimir Arkhipov.
His life can serve as a basis of the book of humorous stories, which have became for folk stories after his regular master-classes and interviews.

Vladimir Arkhipov – Official Site
Vladimir Arkhipov @ Photodom
Director: +371 29788371 (rus / engl / lat)
Vladimir Arkhipov: +7 903 619-88-79 (rus)
E-mail: v_arkhipov@list.ru

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