Matthew
Matthew – USA

To be naked is to be alive. Unzip and step out. Shed that invention of a shield, that expression of suppression of should be’s. [...]

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Miryam_062914_0129
Miryam – Netherlands

With participating in the project I want to show my female strength, my dignity, my softness, my humour, my pureness, my support to all people who have lost...

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Julia
Julia – USA

When did my mind get to have a say in how natural I felt in my body? Where and when was I taught to doubt? By what force...

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Ellen – Netherlands

This experience stays with me, it was very transforming. Without judgements and concepts there remained only Being, Loving, and Potential. Since then I feel more connected, FREE in...

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Jenna
Jenna – USA

Today, I celebrate my sexuality as a dynamic, daring and expressive force! I am cultivating a practice of coming back into the present moment to inquire, "What is...

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Heather
Heather – USA

I really enjoyed doing this photo shoot because it reminded me how much I enjoy being naked, especially in nature, and it made me appreciate my body more....

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Deena – USA

Erica just left after taking a generous amount of photographs while I hung around my living room unclothed, completely free to ponder myself in the flesh in front...

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Becky – USA

I actively initiated my healing journey, or maybe it actively initiated me, in 2007. Either way, something began then that I haven’t been able to stop. [...]

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Erica
Erica – USA

My lifelong struggle to accept my body as valuable and beautiful, with all its “flaws,” in our idealized culture, has taken me to the very depth of my...

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Jules – Netherlands

I could feel that the suffering—my suffering—was ending here now at this place standing next to Jesus, and he transformed into a symbol of joy and life. I...

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Sarajane
Sarajane – USA

There's a temptation to reach for comparisons. To draw parallels between my body and theirs. To seek approval from myself and from others. [...]

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Aaron & Asher
Aaron + Asher – USA

love yourself unconditionally ... because it's more fun that way ... because it's how it was meant to be ... because it helps us love ourselves too [...]

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Nannie_070414_0377
Nannie – Netherlands

This is the circle of my embodiment. By taking my life for real more and more, new circles will open themselves for new adventures and discoveries. They will...

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Sully
Sully – USA

I was once a hunter. I hunted for laughter, play and companionship, and the bounty was full. But the prize I wanted the most was the source of...

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Carol
Carol – USA

Over the years I have pushed myself to an unreachable standard of beauty that I have prescribed only for myself, a perfection I demand from myself that is...

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Ann Marie
Ann Marie – USA

Skin, stone, leaf, river, rain. I came longing for deciduous leaves. I pictured myself naked Among lush foliations of green. [...]

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Rex – USA

And Breath..... the transition begins... the clothes drop away..... my skin feels the space..... images captured on camera's retina.... an awaiting world in need of deep authentic stories.......

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Bert
Bert – USA

America is greatly hung up on beauty and youth. At 84 I’m probably less critical and less involved with the height, width, size, and shape of bodies. [...]

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Jeroen_062714_0034a
Jeroen – Netherlands

Without clothes we are all equal. Common nudity might well be the key to the transformation of the world into the new era. Imagine... [...]

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Gord – USA

I've mostly been captured with a brush or pencil, not a camera. I love the blending of nudity and nature, and that was a major incentive for doing...

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Aaron – USA

There is beauty in the moment, in the skin we are in, in the blood pumping through our veins, through the God-given Spirit in our souls. It’s all...

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Dennis – USA

This is the Dennis that Lisa was hoping for! My precious Lili will rejoice when I am no longer lonely. My tribulation is over, this miracle is on...

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Savannah
Savannah – USA

I know the full impact, the true impact, of this entire experience won’t hit me until these words are shared alongside my picture. My body, my story; they...

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Lily – USA

I remember dancing. I remember dancing under the moonlight, the drum’s beating heart enticing my body to sway. I remember hips circling, arms swirling, bare feet stomping on...

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Connell
Connell – USA

A man standing atop a grassy knoll, playing an ancient instrument, reflecting on the ancient music that is now soaring with the wind. He is in control yet...

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Dana – USA

At the ripe young age of 85, I’ve never been happier with all phases of my life. When people ask me “Dana, how are you always so up?”...

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Dana
Dana – USA

I was 13 when “heroin chic” mainlined into popular culture. This aesthetic exalted women for visible bones and total passivity. [...]

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Jenn
Jenn – USA

If I had been standing in front of a mirror I might have felt differently. My eyes falling to all of the places on my body’s mirrored reflection...

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Alison
Alison – USA

Here we are, adapting back into the rawest form of humanity: becoming comfortable in our own skin through the courage and strength that lives within us. [...]

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Keri
Keri – USA

I breathe. I soften. I am breathed by the Universe, by Creation, as a promise to Life and Purpose. This radical permission bursts forth from under my hands....

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Reve
Reve – USA

I stand on the muddy bank stark still, excited, apprehensive gazing at the dark fall-chilled, cold river. [...]

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Esjay
Esjay – USA

Cold hard metal against my shaking hands, the tip-toeing dancing pads of my feet. I was excited and happy. Thankfully, I had the warm rush I was counting...

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Fleur Inanna – Italy

The mystery builds with every magical breath that is given, the natural blossoming beyond the “I” is most infinitely bound. My path is like water, a way of...

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Erica
Erica – USA

I realize that I cannot hide how I feel about myself or my body. If I feel shame I will teach shame. If I feel love I will...

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Grace
Grace – USA

I’ve been disconnected. I spent my first 25 (or more) years completely out of touch with myself and my body. [...]

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Janell
Janell – USA

I love posing, I'm a camera ham. Before the shoot I was reluctant…I wanted to lose some weight before being photographed so that I had a thinner belly....

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Dominique
Dominique – USA

Once upon a time there was a feral goddess who met a wizard from distant lands. The wild nature of this feral goddess attracted the wizard to share...

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Sierra
Sierra – USA

Some people have told me that I am pretty, and others that I am ugly. I rarely believed either was important. I was embodied. Regardless of what others...

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Brad-Leaf
Brad-Leaf – USA

Healing Ritual Space is where I spend about half of my time. The so-called "altered state of consciousness" is a place where I go regularly, on my own...

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Daniel
Daniel – USA

One day while walking, a gust of winter wind chilled my human bones. Pulling my coat up around my shoulders, I shuddered. Instantly, my fleshy body disintegrated and...

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David
David – USA

Oh, mud. Sitting on the river bank warming myself with a hot toddy after the shoot, I notice a woman in the distance tumbling off the path down...

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Finneke – Netherlands

To stand naked before the camera I actually laid bare my soul. The experience opened the way, released me from prison, connected me to my body. It makes...

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David – USA

Why can’t I see myself as the artist does - someone who is appreciated for what he gives and provides - inspiration and excellence? Isn’t that who I...

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Michael
Michael – USA

I come from small-city Kentucky, a place on the Ohio River, spreading up into the surrounding hills and forests. I was raised on camping trips and too many...

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Ireen – Netherlands

...In the womb of Mother Earth, I really felt to the bone and in every cell of my body, how it feels to be Me, to be NOW,...

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Brook 071015-100a-2-2
Brook – USA

Run your hands through me. I am almost ready to be mixed into the earth. I am almost ready to become something I won’t even recognize. [...]

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Emily – USA

I am Emily: daughter of Cynthia, daughter of Virginia, daughter of Ruth. I am Emily: mother of Tulsi, mother of a child in my womb, soon to be...

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Kirra Donna
Kirra Donna – USA

My stark white body against the uninhabited pavement gave me the feeling of what one might call an apparition, as if I was watching myself, completely removed from...

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Sandra
SaNdRa* – USA

When I appreciate beauty in whatever it is: in the landscape, in people, in music, in our bodies, I feel like we are opening up in a higher...

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DiAnna – USA

I know I am powerful. I know I am vulnerable. Being both is what makes this Human experience a Divine gift. Being able to share and show all...

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Ryan – USA

Look at this human form and see me for who I am, a genderfluid human being that may express theirself along the spectrum of gender possibilities. [...]

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Theresia – Netherlands

Being on an inner Journey since a couple of years ago, I feel more and more that it is about acceptance, surrender and being right here in every...

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Xandra 070614-181
Xandra – Netherlands

I started my Tai Chi Stick... to comfort myself... to BE at the land's end, on the crossing... of land & sea, water & air, air & earth......

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Luz + Sandra – USA

We are mother and son, eternal friends and companions in the great mystery, conspiring to heal our lineage. United and completely naked, we are liberated even from our...

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Bri
Bri – USA

I want to be an example for whoever this project reaches, to show them that everyone has these issues, but you don’t have to allow them to control...

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Jana – USA

Today, on the day of my photo shoot, it has been four years and twenty three days since I first received treatment for my eating disorder. Needless to...

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Delilah – Netherlands

The power is building up inside. And I felt my body; the energy comes in and I started to come alive, to fly, free from the supporting base....

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BJ
bj – USA

The spontaneous and unrehearsed way of participating in the project was so thrilling for me, matching the project's intention to demonstrate the unadulterated naked truths of our bodies....

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Sean
Sean – USA

Why is it that we are so shut down from our bodies? When did this start? Who upholds this lack of education? How is this directly tied to...

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Alina Ahh
Alina Ahh – USA

I loved being a faerie in the wild. Being naked with only my wings on! For years, I have been playing wildly and creatively as a faerie stilt-walker,...

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Scott
Scott – USA

The day of my photo shoot with Erica was going to be a cold one. Though I really wanted to do it out in nature, I seriously debated...

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Yves
Yves – USA

My physical issues are real. All I have to do is point them out; they cannot be denied. I do not believe other people do not see them....

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Lauren – USA

You’re going to find a way (soon) to begin mending. To begin learning how to love yourself. The world’s expectations of what is perfect will continue being relentless...

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Mikey
Mikey – USA

I FEEL SO ALIVE!! Through this experience, I have learned fully the beauty of my body, as well as my soul. [...]

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Steven – USA

I was born with a mosaic of birth defects that required multiple surgical and therapeutic interventions. I think I have done the best I can with what I...

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Rachel
Rachel – USA

"Be big." That's something I said to a close friend recently, who weighs just under 100 pounds, and who struggles with worrying that if she eats too much,...

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Zelle – USA

I am here in this human body, on this planet, at this time, with these people, and in these situations to love and be loved. What better way...

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