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Famous Scottish photographer Jim Furness is a former RAF officer |
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Thursday, 28 December 2006 |
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 A few years ago a friend who was doing an art course casually remarked that they would be doing some black and white photography. I was seized by the idea of taking B&W photographs. I pulled an old camera out of the cupboard and purchased a second hand darkroom kit for £35. The kit came with a small booklet entitled ‘How to Develop and Print Black and White Photographs’ I read the book in an evening and was on my way. I started photographing nudes quite early on, and my friends grew used to being volunteered as models.
Most of my subjects are female. As a man I find women inherently more interesting subjects to photograph. I have on the occasions worked with a male models, but with a couple of exceptions found it difficult to develop the chemistry with my subjects necessary to produce worthwhile and interesting images.
Around the time I started my photography I also began to discover the wonders of Naturism. My summer holidays were spent with my wife and son on nudist beaches in the south of France. Lying on the beach, seeing all of the wonderful naked people, I began to imagine them gracing the Scottish landscape. We belong to the earth, and the earth belongs to us. We come from the earth, and ultimately our bodies return to it. No less so in Scotland than in France.
Our bodies are God’s beautiful creation. Therefore how can they ever be considered as obscene or pornographic objects? We are children of God and inhabit his universe, ‘and no less than the trees and the stars, we have a right to be here’.’ |
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