BENEATH THE SHADOWS THE SOUL WALKS
THE BOOK
THE BOOK
Featuring 116 images by Predrag Pajdic
And 8 original stories by JL Nash
Embossed hard cover, 115 pages, printed in Portugal
Published by The Pandorian, UK/Australia
Designed by Wrong Design, Porto
ISBN 978-0-9872567-6-8
1000 Copies
COMING OUT 20 SEPTEMBER 2012
THE BOOK
This book challenges current trends and rewards the time taken to
peruse the images and read the texts as it celebrates the loveliness in
everyone, at all ages, gender, style, type and appearance. Over 70
subjects have been photographed and they range from ages 10 to 84. What
is presented are the purest of naked souls echoed in the faces and
bodies of some of the most extraordinary people from across U.S.A.,
Europe and Asia taken over the period of a year to catch all seasons. A
key moment for the timing of the photographs taken was dawn or dusk; a
time when the human subconscious rises to the forefront in an almost
dream state, just waking or about to sleep. It is at this magical
instant we are able, as humans to penetrate our most vulnerable and
innocent emotions. It is a time of great understanding and wisdom, a
moment of the opening or closing of flowers, the birth or death of
butterflies. 100 of the most intense and exceptional visions from exotic
locations spanning deserts, mountains, waterfalls and lakes have been
hand selected from about 50,000 taken. Each subject was chosen because
of their kindness and compassion in their lives, the purity of the
authentic soul and the resulting grace as captured is a manifestation of
the essence of each of these astonishingly humble ordinary people.
Images call deep into the window of expression to create a new
beginning, a marker for what is now stripped, vulnerable, raw and
honest.
These lyrical metaphors are sometimes challenging but never drop
below the line of elegant taste. It’s a common enough cry from the
stands, railing against the double standards of media interpretation of
beauty. We know about photo-shopping images, digital alterations and the
decrease of self-esteem in light of almost impossible versions of
exquisiteness as presented to us. But where is the new standard, where
is the new measure? These are the faces of beauty, male and female,
young and old, of a variety of nationalities. This book is a marvellous
celebration of life’s splendour in a form as yet seen, and offers a new,
more realistic standard and measure by which to judge those who please
the eye. The short stories are exclusive to this book and also echo the
same ethos, adding another dimension to the pictures we create in mind
and soul.
FEATURING
The book is featuring many extraordinary people such as international
artists, performers, dancers, composers, writers, poets, lovers and
next door neighbours, who stole from their time, injected their passion
and spread their enthusiasm in creating this project. Among others we
are grateful to Lee Adams, Peter M Adams, Dimitris Alexandrou, Loukas
Angelou, Julien Aschner, Oreet Ashery, Barney Ashton, Hrafnhildur
Benediktsdóttir, Silke Bender, Fernando Bonastre, Pio Rio Branco,
Christopher Agius Burke, Shaun Carmody, Nicola Canavan, Lesley Chan,
Sebastian Trevor Collins, Federico Domenici, Jason Eddy, Edir, Finn
Eighty, Alexandra Eldridge, Andrew Ellerby, Paul Fages, Nathan Hanford,
Scott Humphreys, Matthew-Robert Hughes, Dominic Johnson, Jean-Bastien
Lagrange, John Linssen, Othon Mataragas, Marko Matysik, Jeremy Martin,
Elizabeth McGorian, Darius Meibodi, Katarina Mootich, Erica Mott,
Charles Moriarty, Ash Mukherjee, Kira O’Reilly, Fragiskos Papasifakis,
Simon Phillips, Hugo Rodrigues, Alif Sankey, Emanuele Soavi, Anna
Sudbina, Marie & Manon Tatala, Anthony Thévenoux, Ernesto Tomasini,
Gabriel Toso, Stephanie Valerie, Costas Voyatzis & Mara Vujic.
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