Absence of Shame

The project was first opened in the beginning of September 2016. It consists of photographs which depict naturist families from France, North California, and Ireland, with whom Sturges has been communicating. The author photographed them throughout the duration of his long artistic career. Having started in the 1970s, he has now shot 3 generations of models. The images uncovered their…

“One of the most important elements in my work is an absence: the absence of shame”. Jock Sturges The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of one of the more celebrated and controversial photographers of the last decades, Jock Sturges. Jock Sturges is famous for his series of families taken at communes in Northern California and in naturist…