You are naked when you go to the bathroom, or when you change clothes. “If people don’t like it or feel offended, they can avert their gaze.” He recently clicked an unclad model in a “deserted mountain area” as he wanted to show that it is fine to be naked outdoors just as it is in the bedroom. “If my page is banned again, I will make another one,” says Banerjee. Banerjee’s Instagram page has been pulled down twice and Yogarwa recently made her fourth handle. In a country where Ranveer Singh’s bum-baring photoshoot has caused a furore, it is not easy to create nude art. “But I am happy and proud to put my face to my work,” he says. Banerjee points out that most photographers still shoot nudes clandestinely - they work with aliases - because they don’t want their family and professional life to get affected. Moreover, viewers appreciate their work,” says the 28-year-old. Now, every city has two or three nude photographers who are trying this art form and sharing their work online. “I am sure photographers must have been shooting nudes but they were not coming out with their work. Ten years ago, when Kolkata-based photographer Rikrivu Banerjee started putting the nude portraits he shot on Instagram, there were barely five or six Indian photographers who were open about clicking people in an unclad state. I could not understand why we have to always sexualise the body,” says the Bengaluru resident who also clicks naked self-portraits.ĭARE TO BARE: Nude model and yoga instructor Yogarwa feels if people see more skin, they will get used to it. “During fashion shows and shoots, I saw the body being hypersexualised. Yogarwa, who first posed naked in 2019, does at least one shoot a week to allow a photographer to capture her bare body through his lens. Though born into a conservative family where she was not even allowed to wear shorts, the 38-year-old former fashion model feels extremely comfortable without clothes. Yogarwa is as passionate about teaching asanas as she is about her ‘second job’ as a nude muse. Yogarwa and TheDannyGuy belong to a small but growing community of Indians - mostly photographers, art aficionados and models - who are trying to normalise nudity through art, albeit discreetly. The photographers, who usually capture slithering snakes and bustling beehives, were attending a ‘nude art’ workshop conducted by a photographer who calls himself ‘TheDannyGuy’ and a nude model and yoga instructor who goes by the name ‘Yogarwa’. ![]() Here, they spent six hours trying to capture the contours of two naked women striking various poses based on their polite requests. A motley group of five nature and wildlife photographers ‘worked’ inside a studio in Bengaluru rather than outdoors this Tuesday. ![]() Ranveer Singh’s bum-baring shoot may have caused a stir but a bunch of artists is quietly trying to normalise nudity through their pictures.
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