Digital photography has really become an art form; The creative possibilities are seemingly endless. With the advent of personal computers, GIMP/Photoshop, and affordable digital SLR cameras, photography has experienced a huge boom. Some of it is pure dreck. Some, however, is pure platinum.

Enter today’s blog; Brooke Shaden is a young woman who uses her own body as her model, and presents captivating, intriguing, thoughtful images.

The images border on erotic at times, troubling at others. They reach into our childhoods, into our pasts, and into our bookshelves; Red Riding Hood wanders in a sodden cloak through a swamp, basket lost along with her clothes. Sylvia Plath appears with her head in a cupboard instead of an oven, and a strange fruit brings to mind a story by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Persephone emerges from the Underworld in her nightgown holding (and dropping) a crop of oranges. Brooke presses her upper body against a wall, her hand flung over her shoulder, dribbling chocolate syrup down her swayed and curved back. I have to remind myself not to lick my computer screen.

Ms. Shaden draws on subconscious archetypes, whether she knows it or not. How I would love to work with her, to witness the process of creating one of these images from inception to birth.

What a remarkable talent, definitely worth adding to your RSS feed reader.

http://shadenproductions.com/blog/

ATOM feed to her blog.

BrookeShaden on Flickr