I am now a Photographer at A Beautiful Body Project

YES, I am now a photographer of the Beautiful Body Project by Jade Beall.

#ikzieikzie (wat jij niet ziet) - Let's Celebrate Life! Contemplative Photography from the ♥

Looking at life, I SEE. I SEE you. And YOU are so worth it.

When I first saw Jade's photos, I immediately had to think of my PURE. Proud young mothers series 2006-2009 - nude portraits of teenmothers 16-22 years old, posing pregnant or with child, 100% Photoshop free.

Since my days as a student at the Academy of Arts ('96, St. Joost, Breda) I've been taking photos showing the beauty of the female body. Je suis belle, ô mortels! comme un rève de pierre - taken from Charles Baudelaire's poem La Beauté from the book Fleurs du Mal, is my guideline ever since.

I am beautiful, oh mortals! like a dream carved in stone

Jade is a beautiful and PURE mother, and she made the headlines with her photos showing PURE beauty. I am proud to be a Beautiful Body Photographer and share all beauty with the world. Melanie Rijkers at A Beautiful Body Project

Update MeRy

Beautiful Bags your own photo on a funky bag, this is Marieke van Ginneken's daughter Catootje posing proudly with her mummy's new streetbag :-)

Hi, back on track again, but still in pain sometimes. My left leg is hurting when trying to sleep on my side, the nerve is still not well, but...I am getting better bit by bit. For me working 'slow speed' is very weird, as I am always busy busy busy. But I like that, doing a lot of things at one time, as I always have the feeling there's so little time and so much to do. (to create) I can never stop making art, I always want to create new images and obstinate pictures, photographes that make people stop when passing by. I had that happen with the preview of PURE. in Enschede, people were attracted inside when passing the gallery just because of my work. And when a woman started crying when looking at the first 10 photos I was almost shocked: can my photos really do that?? But yeah, it made me proud as well. PURE. is pure, and that's the strength. In these Plastic Fantastic days of Photoshopped women all over the magazines my young mothers are pure and 100% Photoshop-Free, showing pimples, striae and other 'defects'...to me they are just PERFECT :-)

Also perfect was the latest Beautiful Bag I received a couple of days ago, mom Marieke was very proud of her daughter in postpop art style on her new photobag.