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allablur
@allablur.bsky.social
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The more personal part of my photography, the vulnerability of the naked self, and others too.
ICYMI, my nude art #retrospective (1984 forwards) is in an ongoing thread: https://bsky.app/profile/allablur.bsky.social/post/3lbou4sdlzk2c
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Folds and creases (2005)
Although I took this image in Dec 2005 (with the others reposted below) I created the quartet as a standalone artwork in 2006. I spun each image by 90° because it was appropriate in that context.
This is as each alone should be.

#MaleNude #SelfPortrait #Photography #Art
A naked man is lying with legs partially raised corner to corner across a bed. A colour photo, dim lighting.
August 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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From dusk to dawn (2005)
Three months on from that last post and, if nothing else on BlueSky, I want to keep this #retrospective thread moving. To make continuity easier, replies are turned off.😊
I think the concept is self explanatory - for guys this happens.

#selfportrait
#artnude
#malephysiology
Four photos are laid out in a row. A naked man lie on a bed. In the fourth image, as light falls, representing dawn, he has a visible erection. For me, the subject here, there is no connection with what I may have been dreaming about and it most often that dream will be completely non-sexual. Sleep keeps the brain and body fit and this pleasant awakening appears to be part of that natural process.
August 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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When I signed off from BlueSky 2 months ago I mentioned that I was busy on Flickr - for there I feel more free to post the full range of my photography. I also did some creating in those 2 months, first for a while, a nod to my erotic self.
#selfportrait #malenude #monochrome #photography
August 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Another spontaneous mirror selfie.
Well, it was that on 4th July.

#mirror #selfie #naked #nude #male
August 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Good morning mirror! (2025)

Spontaneously this morning…
hello again BlueSky!
(Not promising anything)

#mirror #selfie #selfportrait #nude #naked
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Ashcombe Bottom (2017)

I've not been looking for shots taken #onthisday for a while. Yesterday came up blank, today did better.

#selfportrait #artnude #photography #malenude #nakedinnature #outdoornude
Colour photo of a fallen tree trunk twisting with a naked man lying on its further reaches.
May 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Thirty years apart (1997/2017)

The bathroom had changed, so had the hair.

#photography #selfportrait #timelapse #aging #artnude #malenude #monochrome #film #analog #digital #naked #nude #artisticnudephotography #nudephoto #malebody #bnwnude #bum #malenudephotography
Two black and white photos of the same naked man kneeling in a bathroom with head in hands and buttocks facing camera. The two photos are taken thirty years apart.
May 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Jumper triptych (2018)
A screengrab out of Lightroom...

#photography #selfportrait #nude #bottomless #plastering #malenude #naked #portrait #nudephoto #nudeart #halfnaked
Three photos of a male who is naked except for the orange wooly sweater which covers his genitals in the second two images.
May 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Kingston townhouse (2009)

#selfportrait #monochrome #malenude #artnude #photography
Monochrome photograph of a naked male opening double doors in home with light from windows behind - stepping out and raising arm in welcoming manner.
May 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Holding (2004)

#selfportrait #monochrome #erotic #malenude #artnude
A black and white photo of a slim naked man curled up a little on a bed, waves across the sheets, both hands holding his erect penis but somehow the shadows make it not as overtly sexual as this description might suggest.
May 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Kingston (2004)
Another from 2004 - and the first image in my online gallery www.scottyh.com/Photo-archiv...

#retrospective
#selfportrait
#monochrome
#artnude
#malenude
#naked #nude #art
Monochrome photo of a naked male behind a door with glass panes revealing his penis but anonymising his face.
May 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Kingston (2004)
When in Kentish Town I was able to produce this style of nude in a huge window - and on film of course. Now, in a new home with normal windows I was pleased to be able to create similar images, now with digital help.
#self #malenude #artnude #photography #monochrome #retrospective
A black and white photo of a slim naked male figure, taken shoulder to knee, side on with visible penis and hand with five fingers spread, thumb touching the buttock. It's backlit from a white background, almost a silhouette.
May 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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If the mask fits (2004)
This is the exhibited photo referred to in the post in the thread below. I consciously went for colour because it can be too easy to put something into B&W and call it art.
#anonymous
#selfportrait
#artnude
#malenude
#naked #nude #art
Colour photo of a naked man in a bathroom wearing a painted mask while a polystyrene head sits on a nearby window sill.
May 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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With the painted lady (2004)
It was not until 2004 that I truly started to recapture the art in my images. These are two images from a series - one of which was later exhibited at a London exhibition.
#retrospective
#selfportrait
#monochrome
#artnude
#malenude
#naked #nude #art
A black and white photograph of the naked torso and upper legs of a man apparently cornered in a bathroom. On the window sill a painted polystyrene head looks on. A black and white photographic portrait of the naked upper body of a man in the cornered of a bathroom. He is looking over his shoulder at the camera - on the window sill a painted polystyrene head looks on too.
May 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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And in 2013's Mayday was the first occasion out there for me walking naked, along the South Downs Way, under the guidance of the one and only Will Golden, who sadly would have had undetected Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in these images.
Truly an experience to remember.
#nakedhike #nakedrambling #nudehike
May 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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In 2017 it was more serious, stylistically driven self portraiture.
#artnude #selfportrait #monochrome #photography
May 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
It seems that I was indeed busy #onthisday in years gone by. In 2023 I was casually naked in socks around the house....
#self #casualnudity #nakedathome #withacat
May 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Out today with @allstars1618.bsky.social on a first nude hike of the season in the South Downs National Park.

#NakedHike #NudeWalk #naturistramble #naturism
April 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Falling leaves (2011)
Also 14 years ago #onthisday and still out with Jess but in the 1st photo trying to create something all by myself. As art, not a great success but I was obviously enjoying some humour out there!
#nudeportrait #nudeinnature #artnude #photography #selfportrait #artnude #malenude
Colour photo of a naked man in the woods in spring gathering and scattering autumn leaves Colour photo of a naked man walking in the woods in spring looking to his left and laughing.
April 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Jess (2011)
14 years ago #onthisday I was out with Jess in the Ashdown Forest on our second shoot together.
#nudeportrait #nudeinnature #artnude #photography #monochrome
Black and white photo of a nude woman sitting beneath a broad trunk of a tree in a wood Black and white photo of a naked woman standing between two tree trunks in a wood
April 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Fog on Bignor Hill (2011)
It was March and cool, and a few minutes earlier there were glorious views of the South Downs.
#selfportrait #artnude #malenude #Photography #Naked #Outdoors #NudeinNature
Colour photo of a naked man about 20m distant walking across a grassy field towards distant trees which are enveloped in mist.
April 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Self portrait (2002)
After the weirdness of 1999 my nude photography took a break for a while. We upscaled to a new house in the leafy suburbs of London which had no opportunity for a darkroom. But digital happened - this would have been one of the first casual snaps on my 2MP Nikon point & shoot...
A colour photo of a naked man in a room indoors, leaning on a table looking at camera.
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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And this is my photo of The Clash from that crowd at the anti Nazi league concert in Victoria Park. My aim was a bit off but it was bouncing out there!
April 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Went up to London today to the Tate Britain Gallery and ‘The 80s: Photographing Britain’ exhibition. I was expecting a full array of documentary photography, which I got, but not art photography including a resplendent golden painted penis and Works by Wolfgang Tillmans. 😍
More info in the alt tags!
The Clash at the Rock Against Racism in Victoria Park by Syd Shelton. I am one of the faces in the crowd. The Kiss at the poll tax riots by David Hoffman The Golden Phallus and two other works by Rotimi Fani-Kayode A whole wall of photography for iD magazine by Wolfgang Tillmans
April 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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At the House of the Inquisition
Staying in an old house in Andalucia, #onthisday in 2017, many mirrors, this my favourite.
#mirrornude #selfportrait #Fujix #malenude #artnude
A colour photo of a naked man taking his own photo in a mirror. A colour photo of a naked man taking his own photo in a mirror.
April 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM