Iglessias

Spanish photographer Iglessias’ mysterious and surreal images result from intricate staging and lighting processes, not digital alterations. This lends his work an irrepressible power and sense of immediacy, which he sees as photography’s greatest strength. Iglessias conveys this feeling of burning urgency while pursuing a very poised and calm style of traditional nude photography, developed during his time working as a fashion photographer. This surprising combination of futuristic lighting effects and time-honored poses pushes his images in exciting new directions, creating an uncanny synthesis that seems alternately timeless and aggressively contemporary.

The lighting effects – created by shooting with especially long exposure times – produce an almost painterly result with long, looping streaks and swirls of intense color, which turn an otherwise calm and intimate scene into something spectacular. In certain pieces, Iglessias pushes this brush-like quality further, essentially using the lights to color in certain areas of his shots. Cast in such dazzling neon hues, his nudes become otherworldly creatures.