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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.

This book is an offering to the goddesses. It’s an offering to you, and to the goddess in you. May it help you see it, feel it, live it.

ricardo scipio
Photographer



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Thursday, May 31, 2012

"I was in Ricardo's first goddess book and I can guarantee that it was not only very professional and taste full, but extremely profound and surreal. I not only walked away that day feeling different...that feeling never went away. I cried when I saw the pictures because my body was not what it had been less than a year ago, almost perfect. I cried again a year later when I learned that this new body was the sign that I had a brain tumor. I thanked the Goddess for entering my body, saving my life and asked her to stay. She is still here...

At the time of the shoot, I was in a very dark period of my life.

I was also working in the music industry with very heavy and dark Metal. The night before the shoot, I had had a very large show at the place I had chosen for my shoot. An old warehouse modified to hold small concerts in an industrial area of Downtown Seattle. It still had a wooden floor and was very much still the old warehouse with the addition of a stage, soundboard and some band practice rooms in the back. The morning of my shoot, the most of the lights were still off and the light that we used was the natural light that streamed through the windows of the ceiling. I could see the dust particles in the beams of light; I could smell the stench of stale body odor, beer and cigarette smoke. Red cups half full of beer with butts remained through the place.

Just a few hours prior to the shoot, the music and voices had been so loud I could hardly hear myself think, let alone the voice of the Goddess. That morning was a Sunday; the silence caused a ringing in my ears that was different for that which was leftover from the night before. No sound was heard but the occasionally train and the clicking of the camera. This was one of the pivotal days in my life. A day when I started to see my life for what it was...and what it was not.

Sometimes I look back and wish that I had not been in that period of my life when I experienced the photo shoot. Now I realize, though, that the Goddess wanted me to do my shoot at that time. Ricardo and I found each other for what we needed to fulfill that which we were destined to do on this part of our life journey so that we could move forward awakened into the next experience of our own as well as become known members of each other's soul group.

I do not think I would have done this if I had not been a part of this project.

My experience with Ricardo and maintaining connection with him through Herbal Medicine and friendship ingrained in who I am now. Looking through the Goddess photos and watching his project grow, has made me come to realize that the Goddess has always been a part of who I am that I am my own Goddess and I always have been. Looking at my photos and those of the other Goddess, being where I was before, during and after my photo shoot brings me to realize that I have always been a Goddess. I see these Goddesses and can almost imagine where they are in their journeys as maiden, mother and crone...yet always the Goddess. I can see who realizes it and maybe who does not.

Ricardo has been able to get women of all colors, ages and sizes of many different cultures and life styles to remove their protective shells seen for who they, WE, truly are.

Thank you Ricardo, my friend and soul group adventurer, for being here and now, then and now."

Tuesday, May 1, 2012


Part 1

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.