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Jacobina

In our ongoing effort to promote student art we have recently been contacted by Jacobina de Rivera an inquisitive Art student from the public university in Queretaro, Mexico. Ms. Rivera has granted us permission to publish her recent correspondence with TW.

Posted by Jacobina de Rivera

Hi Mr. Ward!
My name is Jacobina de Rivera. I´m 19 years old, from México and I just fell in love with your work. It is just so clean, artistic and beautiful. I do not have enough words to describe the feelings that your work creates in me. I send you some amateur photographs, but I hope that one day you can come to México and, if you want to, I could model for you… it would be a pleasure for me…

I´m studying art at the public University here in Querétaro, México. This semester my teacher gave us some optional subjects and one of them was “porn studies” (or prostitutology) I really do not know which is the correct name of this subject in English, but we study all kinds of porn, and when it becomes Art. Yesterday, I took the class and we talked about your work… I had to search all about it on the web. I just fell in love with it… again… it is so artistic… every detail is perfect… I could spend all day watching your photos…

Portrait of Jacobina by Friend

By the way… I hope one day I can meet you and of course, model for you. Best greetings from a far far away utopia…..Regards!

True Love

Posted by Alex Remnick

The series is called “Mike and Kate” and it depicts an actual couple, who have been dating for over a year now. While shooting, I worked with the following guidelines in mind.

•Neglect the inclination to overly display or emphasize the presence of nudity
•Attempt to realistically and objectively depict the dynamic of a relationship outside of the public eye
•Draw symbolism from the seemingly un-symbolic space in which the shoot took place
Nothing in this shoot was set up, except for the fact that Mike was nude. I left for a few minutes to get more film, and when I got back, Mike was playing his guitar. Kate removed her bathrobe in the last few images because she thought she looked silly in her bathrobe.

Mike And Kate

These images are about true love, and what that term really means. Not true love in the fairy tale sense of the word where a poor young orphan meets a prince and they live happily ever after, but rather, what love truly means. Mike and Kate have definitely had their share of fights, but they can always count on being able to come back to these moments. They can always hang out half-clothed on a Sunday afternoon, do nothing, and be happy just to be together.

…….Alex Remnick is studying photography at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kalina Isato: Spiders

….The studio is pleased to announce that Kalina Isato, a photography student at the University of Pennsylvania who was featured in an earlier blog, participated in a Undergraduate Juried exhibition and won a Jurors Choice award for this series of images. We congratulate your achievement Kalina……..