"The Goddess Project"- my second book of photography was shot between 2002 and 2010. The book is 8.5x11", 160 pages of full colour. 77 beautiful women of all different shapes, sizes, ages and ethnicities are who make the book truly splendid. Ricardo Scipio Photographer
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Natural Beauty is Powerful and a Gift
Look through my lens and see beauty in a new way. See women in a new way – or maybe the oldest way possible: as goddesses.
The Goddess Project is book of nude photographs of brave, beautiful women who rejoice in being themselves regardless of size, age, height - regardless of anything. It’s not about what you look like, it’s not even about what you don’t look like, it’s all about how you feel about yourself…and how you feel about life itself.
That’s what my book is about. It’s the way I see and photograph women: as goddesses. It’s what I want for every woman and for the world.
And this book isn’t just a book: it’s a mission. It’s a manifesto. It’s a beauty revolution, and the antidote to mainstream media’s impoverished and interchangeable images of female beauty.
I used to be part of that media. For ten years, I worked in New York and Toronto as a fashion photographer – and my work demanded that I promote and support a view of beauty and sexuality I never personally believed in. Super-thin teenagers with under-developed bodies and barely in touch with their own nascent womanhood were as far away from my personal version of female beauty as one can imagine. During that time, I grew a career – but I lost more than I gained.
And so I left the industry to start a revolution in pictures.
From 2002-2010, I was on a mission. I photographed 77 incredible women and trust me, it was a momentous task to select 160 of my favourite, most compelling images from thousands and thousand of pictures. These women are goddesses of all kinds: black, brown, white, young, old, thin, fat, small, tall. Some are earth mothers, others are warriors, protectors or sex-goddesses.
ricardo scipio
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
My Goddess Project Experience
First I wrote part 2, then I looked at some other pieces written by Ricardo’s goddesses. My nudity was abandoned at age twelve when the artist I had “sat for” for two years asked me to sit nude.
I secretly thought this was sexy and he was sexy so I did. My first sexualized indiscretion. Showing a lover my body has always been a source of power for me, at any size. I was described as voluptuous at the age of 8 or 9, before I had breasts.
Part 2
It is a great compliment to a woman’s essential being, to be appreciated in her most real, most fundamental sense. On this blustery day in November, Ricardo Scipio and I shared a sacred trust.
Now I look different than I did in my twenties and the pleasure of the prospect of admiration of my nude, regardless of how far flung, is a thrill. As a woman-child I was the object of much leering, but now I look full-blown and fecund and that is too close to the Madonna for many would-be admirers to assimilate.
My great pleasure in modeling for this, Ricardo’s Goddess series comes from the gratification that primally, for woman, is to share ones earthly femininity with a man who is not one’s lover, or many men. Or anyone who is turned on by looking at a woman.
Everyone fantasizes about being admired aesthetically and/or sexually. I prefer sexually, since attraction is so basic.
There are women, who I regard as beautiful in the sense that to look upon them is a pleasure. I fantasize about what it would be, to be them. To have your eyes on me.
-Anonymous