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If you like the old masters of the various painter schools who painted there models as if frozen in a usually unnatural pose, surrounded by symbolic items like fruit, cups, playing cards and so one you might want to have a look a the photography of Mike Lawson.

Mike Lawson photographs sepia-toned female nudes in an unusual and rather painterly style. The poses are forced, the setting unnatural and the (semi-)nude girls are mostly combined with symbolic artifacts creating the same enchanting atmosphere as the old painters.

The website is not the best as for navigation, with all the photograph links at the bottom and now overviews, but the photographs are here in good quality with excellent tonal ranges and his work is definitely worth scrolling down to continue to the next page.

© Mike lawson

I'll start with apologizing for allowing such a huge gap in my little ramblings about art here. Lets get my excuses over and done: it's great weather, to good to be inside, and I'm very busy on another project.

I love Japan. Seeing these pictures makes my heart ache of longing to be back there. My wife and I went there in the autumn of 2004, a selection of our own photographs can be found in our photographic travel diaries. Back on subject though, if you want to travel virtually to Japan right now, check out PhotoPassJapan.com and enjoy the vast selection of photographs that can be browsed either by region, theme, tour or even by map. A little warning in advance: it's an expensive country to fall in love with.

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