Nudes: New Entries from Marc Safran, Hậu Lê, and Klaus Klampert Display Their Sensually Humanist Side

Nudes from Marc Safran, Hậu Lê, and Klaus Klampert are the focus of Graphis’ weekly nude feature.

Prolific photographers Marc Safran, Hậu Lê, and Klaus Klampert demonstrate their humanistic sides with their sensually powerful works. The photograph from Marc Safran, entitled Nude Male Seated (ABOVE), showcases an earnest portraiture of extreme poise and beauty. As Safran puts it, “he was incredibly lithe, muscular and comfortable in my studio. What began as a shoot with his military attire ultimately moved to an unexpected beautiful figure study.”

In the above photo, German photographer Klaus Klampert invoked his own sense of deep modernist sensibilities with his work Untitled (LEFT), which uses soft lighting in a shadowed room to detail the vulnerable grace of the model.

Vietnamese artist Hậu Lê conjures anachronistic visuality in their work The Original Red (RIGHT), capturing “our moms’ youth and beauty [that] were lost for formal restricted clothes because of the society and families’ rules.” The red curtain, both invoking paradigms of restrictive communist rule and heart-thumping passion, plays a duality that is “based on common film tone” which was “the most common background for 1990s portrait photoshoot in Vietnam,” says Lê.

It isn’t too late for you to see your work up here too! Submissions for Graphis’ Nudes 5 Competition run till July 3. Winners will have the opportunity to see their work published on our website, blog, newsletter, and social media platforms!