Forget clothes, birthday suits are trending right now
especially for a French photographer Erica Simone, who has
been living in New York City for 12 years.
Simeone practically moves about totally naked with just her
footwear and is totally cool with it even in the snowy cold
weather of the city.
She takes pictures of herself just everywhere including the
subway, library, plane and so on.
In a bid to explain her photographic project the 29-year-old
photographer said, “What would the world feel like naked?
What if we didn’t have clothing to come in between us? Or
if we couldn’t show off our social status? What if all we had
were our bodies to express our personalities?
Explaining the reason behind her naked photo, Simeone took
to her site where she said,
“As I watch an image-absorbed society care more about the
sales at Barney’s than the homeless people they ignore as
they parade by, I began to ponder: ‘What would the world
feel like naked?
“What if we didn’t have clothing to come in between us? Or
if we couldn’t show off our social status? What if all we had
were our bodies to express our personalities?’ … From
there, my photographic project was born. With a tripod and
a couple ounces of adrenaline, I took to the busy streets to
get a taste of New York in the nude.
It might interest anyone to know that the photographer is
not trying to shock anyone with her naked photo shoots.
She insists that she is only creating art and trying to raise
$10,000 to publish a book of her naked photos.
