Self-acceptance. It is about awareness, recognising your behaviour, habits and personality and not being afraid to look at yourself as you are now. With this wording, I set to work to visualise my personal self-acceptance, the peace I want to make with myself. Physical. Everything has its personal individuality, especially the human nude. It is about the fragile and the soft. Through my work, I want to show that there is no such thing as perfection, neither in me nor in anyone else, we must be able to embrace that. A huge step, exposing the most tender.

Many people have difficulty looking at their bodies in peace because they start comparing themselves to the 'perfect' figure, but what is 'perfect'? Nothing should be described as such, everything has its personal uniqueness, especially the human nude. Nude is seen as taboo, but it is the most natural and pure element of man, nothing is as sincere as the body. It speaks without the use of words, it expresses all possible emotions, and yet it is considered as something strange and unknown.

Through my series, I want to show that there is no such thing as perfection, neither in me nor in anyone else, we must be able to embrace it. Exposing the most vulnerable is a huge step towards self-acceptance. My series is not about sexualising my own body, it is about showing the fragile and the soft. My goal is to create a feeling in the viewer that makes them experience vulnerability, to give the viewer the feeling of touchability.

To start with, I went looking for the way nudes originate in art history. Rodin, Schiele and Brassaï all kept floating around in my mind, sculpture, painting and photography. So different but yet a wonderful unity. Their fascination with the nude, penetrating emotionality and liveliness keeps recurring. 

Focused on photography, I went deeper into the male and female nude. Given my gender and sexual orientation, I focus on the female. But how does a male photographer portray the woman and how do women do that? Each brings their own individuality to nude photography. Women focus on the pure, the real. Men tend more towards the sensual, the tangible. I am looking for a middle way, the attitude of a female photographer to depict reality but also to keep the male principle, the technical aspect, together.