My experience shooting with Ricardo was spiritual, influential and meaningful. I didn't agree to this project for any simple reason. It wasn't for pay, but the profit on my end was immeasurable. I researched Ricardo and could see his project was genuinely a beautiful idea meant to see woman as they truly are. Naked, completely naked beyond just the clothing but naked in their being. They are to be who they are in the photos. Nothing posed, all shots were done with feeling and intention. Intention. A reason behind the photo. The whole shoot was very laid back with no rush. There was no real game plan. The whole shoot was go with the flow and felt out, it was beautiful. We enjoyed good conversation and got to know each other. I knew I needed to meet this man that had messaged me on Model Mayhem, and I'm so glad I did.
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ricardo scipio's Goddess Project
Natural Beauty is Powerful and a Gift.
Look through my lens and see beauty in a new way. See women in a new way – or maybe the oldest way possible: as goddesses.
The Goddess Project is book of nude photographs of brave, beautiful women who rejoice in being themselves regardless of size, age, height - regardless of anything. It’s not about what you look like, it’s not even about what you don’t look like, it’s all about how you feel about yourself…and how you feel about life itself.
That’s what my book is about. It’s the way I see and photograph women: as goddesses. It’s what I want for every woman and for the world.
And this book isn’t just a book: it’s a mission. It’s a manifesto. It’s a beauty revolution, and the antidote to mainstream media’s impoverished and interchangeable images of female beauty.
I used to be part of that media. For ten years, I worked in New York and Toronto as a fashion photographer – and my work demanded that I promote and support a view of beauty and sexuality I never personally believed in. Super-thin teenagers with under-developed bodies and barely in touch with their own nascent womanhood were as far away from my personal version of female beauty as one can imagine. During that time, I grew a career – but I lost more than I gained.
And so I left the industry to start a revolution in pictures.
From 2002-2010, I was on a mission. I photographed 77 incredible women and trust me, it was a momentous task to select 160 of my favourite, most compelling images from thousands and thousand of pictures. These women are goddesses of all kinds: black, brown, white, young, old, thin, fat, small, tall. Some are earth mothers, others are warriors, protectors or sex-goddesses.
This book is an offering to the goddesses. It’s an offering to you, and to the goddess in you. May it help you see it, feel it, live it.
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The Goddess Project by Ricardo Scipio is 8.5×11″, 160 pages of full colour and is being sold directly by the artist as a limited edition collectors item. Only 300 copies of this first edition will be printed. The price is $160 and is a signed and numbered hardcover.
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