Andreas Bitesnich, Austria

Type of Photographs : 

Mainly nudes, but also portraits and travel pictures.

Useful Links :

www.bitesnich.com (official website)

Interesting interview

Rough Information and Comments :

I discovered Andreas Bitesnich in an exhibition in Vienna called "More Nudes".

As I was walking through the exhibition, I had a strange feeling about the pictures, but couldnt tell what it was. 

It took me 30 minutes to figure out : On about 60 pictures, you could see only once the eyes of the model opened. Either the eyes were out of the pictures (see above), or closed, or hidden. This artistic choice left me with a cold impression of body used as clay to sculpt a shape.

Indeed, Andreas chooses most of his nudes models for their physical capacities and puts them in acrobatic postures (as you can see on the interview above in usefull links). He also claims to be seeking "balance" within his frames. Obviously such a trick avoids to slip into erotism and sentimentality, an easy slope while doing nudes.

The 'acrobatic' shots are clearly not the ones I prefer from him.

I prefer, the impressive serenity flowing out of this portrait :

Or the fun symmetry of that one : 

But above all, my favorites are his portraits rather than nudes, that can be found in the "portraits" tab of his website, or while browsing his book called "Travel".