Curious Poses

• Photographer
  Nancy Oliveri
• Technical Info
  Nikon 850 Digital
• Photo Date
  2025

This series is a meditation on portraits of animal, humans and their unconscious relationships reflected in poses, gestures and mirroring.The images include "Bride", a crowned white pea foul posed as a mug shot behind bars, a woman in a lava cave in Iceland, "Angel Knot" is a plastic apparition in the Gowanus Canal, a giant jellyfish is followed by a goat representing the show self in the Jungian tradition. Next, a cabaret performer with a snake, two white flamingos and the shoes of a bird and groom again with their shadows. The sequencing relies on visual free association and symbolism

"My fine art practice, influenced by surrealism, conceptual art and psychoanalysis is based on a lifelong respect and passion for photography. Now, I train AI models exclusively on my photographic archives to push the limits of pictorial plasticity while continuing my traditional digital photography practice simultaneously. I brought back a renewed sense of adventure to my 35mm digital photography. Nancy Oliveri, 1958, Providence, RI is an American photographer & recipient of numerous international exhibition awards, honors and features for her 20 photo books, still life & street photography.