Luis Fábrega is a visual and sound artist who, since 2006, has explored photography, video, and music as parts of a single creative organism. His camera moves through cities, bodies, and gestures in motion, with a particular focus on portraiture, dance, and the nude — building an evolving archive of over thirty thousand images that converse across projects. Based in Paris, he creates video art and hybrid pieces where the body becomes both subject and language. Among them, SOKKA — a collaborative video-dance project with twenty performers inspired by Japanese aesthetics — and a series centered on the tree as a symbol of maturity and growth.In parallel, he composes music that blends jazz, pop, and electronica. His discography includes LIFE IN A BOAT, an album recorded aboard a barge on the Seine, alongside more than two hundred original compositions conceived as soundtracks to his own visual universe.His website functions as a living diary where images, videos, and sounds intertwine to tell one continuous story — that of an artist who sees the body, the city, and time as mutable territories of transformation, exposure, and memory.
A gallery of nude photographs can be a space for deep exploration of the body, identity, and vulnerability, far removed from mere provocation. When nudity is approached with respect and an artistic gaze, the body becomes a language that speaks of fragility, strength, personal history, and presence in the world.In this kind of work, the nude allows us to:Question beauty standards and show real bodies, diverse in age, shape, and background, promoting a more inclusive and non-judgmental way of looking.Work on the person’s relationship with their own body, helping them to reconcile with their insecurities and to see themselves with more acceptance and care.Use light, shadow, and composition to suggest rather than simply display, creating images that speak of intimacy, emotions, and silences, and not only of anatomy.As a photographer, a gallery of nudes also involves a great ethical responsibility: building a safe space, always working from consent and dialogue, and taking care of the balance of power between the one who looks and the one who is seen. In this way, the nude becomes a shared act of trust and a form of visual storytelling in which the person is not an object but the subject of their own narrative.
l like working with nude photography because it allows me to go straight to what is essential: the body without armor, without clothing that signals status, profession, or character. Nudity opens up a space of vulnerability where the person shows themselves as they truly are, and this creates a very intense connection between the one who poses, the one who looks, and my own gaze as a photographer.I am especially drawn to it because:I can explore the shape, light, and texture of the body as if it were a landscape or a sculpture, searching for beauty beyond conventional standards and showing real bodies, with marks, scars, and history.I have the opportunity to accompany people in processes of acceptance and reconciliation with their own body, turning the session into an intimate experience, sometimes almost therapeutic, where the camera becomes a tool for self-esteem and empowerment.Nude photography allows me to question the boundaries between the erotic, the artistic, and the everyday, and to use the body as a language to speak about identity, gender, power, and freedom, not just sensuality.I am very aware of the ethical responsibility that this work involves. For me, it is essential to create a safe environment based on trust, clear consent, and absolute respect, so that the person feels like the subject of the image and not the object of the gaze. That responsibility, together with the emotional depth that appears in these sessions, is one of the reasons why nude photography is so meaningful to me.
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ET MAINS - VIDEO
jewellery and ceramics
running time 9:17
THE BRAND - ET MAINS
ET MAINS is a Barcelona-based jewellery and ceramics brand, handmade by Dominican artist Awilda Guzman. Each piece is limited edition and unique, with no repetitions.
Location: BarcelonaYear: 2022
https://www.etmains.com
ABOUT THE PROJECT
This project includes a ceramic and jewellery product photo shoot and a corporate video. The jewellery photo shoot featured a male and female model recreating a bohemian artist's workshop with natural light in the style of the 1990s.For the product photos of the ceramics, several still lifes were recreated in the style of Mediterranean painting.
For the video project, I decided to create a main interview inside the artist's workshop and intersperse it with the process of creating a piece of ceramics and another of jewellery from A to Z.