Author Archives: jolanta

I’m Nora Ness, life scientist and self-taught photo artist with an eye for the beauty of the female body. Since I can remember I’ve been attracted to the beauty of the naked female body. My erotic self-performance in front of the mirror, showing true erotic moments and passion, catches the eye of anybody who isn’t […]

The Days was inspired by photographs randomly taken in my daily life, which are kept on my computer as part of an electronic album. When you see these images, you go on a trip down memory lane. Memories are triggered by personal experience. While some of the memories are re-enhanced, others are gradually forgotten. The […]

The answer to this question depends on society’s current moral compass. In times gone by the flash of a lady’s ankle was enough to deprave a nation. Now we live in a time—at least in the western world—where the bikini is de rigeur for the public beach. On every music channel semi-clad men and women […]

In September of 2007, Gabriel Shaffer and I participated in a joint exhibit combining his paintings with my poetry, allowing both art forms to react with, and against the other. We called it Animal Returns, and as the title suggests, we embraced the experience as a journey through the guts, the teeth, the eggs, and […]

In the fall of 1994, I began to photograph lovers in the SM scene in New York. My work had explored issues of sexual desire for many years, and sadomasochism was not new to me. It was the natural next step in a journey that I had set out on many years before. I had […]

“I am not interested in function and logic. I want to achieve transcendence,” says Fredrik Söderberg. The snow-covered clearing in Narnia is the beginning of a journey into a magical world. Much like the dreams of shamans, drug-induced hallucinatory states, and sexual experiences, Söderberg’s work can be understood as the transgression of boundaries and the […]