Peter Pazucha

LANDFORM

DEFINITION: Any feature of Earth's surface having a distinct shape and origin. Landforms include major features (such as continents, ocean basins, plains.

We may not use the word very often, but we all acknowledge the common landforms around us,  hills, valleys, mountains, piedmont, depressions.

We've all seen sand dunes.  They are beautiful and quiet (unless there's an ATV around), quite awesome in size, but ever so simple in form. These are  characteristics shared by our bodies as well.

This project is primarily torso images:  top, bottom, side, front, back, twisted, tormented, stretched and compressed. Read more: Dunes of Femininity

The Simple Lines series is all about abstraction.  It's about finding uniquely individual, ultra simple, body lines. Read more: Simple Lines

Body art is a prevailing social phenomenon.  It's nothing new -- humans have been decorating their epidermis for centuries; yea for millennia. The images include not only tattoos but also piercings and other forms of body modification.

Images don't ask "why" or "why not" -- they simply record.  Sometimes there is great beauty accompanied by great meaning; other times they are the results of

This is a project specifically for and about cancer survivors.

A great many cancer patients have found that the uniqueness of their disease proved the cause (or excuse) for people in their life to abandon them, shun them, or ignore them.  Many of them have found that normally caring people have even gone so far as to avoid touching them.

I began this project after my own mother failed in her fight against the disease, but it didn't begin to take shape for some years.

I have been amazed at how strong cancer makes survivors, its a disease that raises people from the depths to extraordinary power.

Most of my humanscapes are created with men and women of average size.

The athletic body presents it's own unique challenges and delights.  It may be true that my athletic models are more flexible than others the compactness of their muscles and oftentimes the absence of body fat makes appropriate captures more tricky.

All the beautiful women in the world are NOT under 20.  In fact the greatest beauty of a flower is the last beauty and for those women who are willing to see themselves objectively a great many of them look better as they age.

If you are over 40 I am especially interested in shooting you.  Why?  Because we live our lives becoming individuals -- the little things that we sometimes perceive as "imperfections" aren't so much things "wrong" with us as they are the things that distinguish us from others.

Mature, confident women, and even mature not-so-confident-women who are willing to explore what it is that makes they gorgeous, desirable, and sensual are wonderful artist's models.  Consider joining me in studio... Read more: Ladies 40, 50, 60, 70 and Beyond