Spain-based photographer Gonzalo Bènard shares with YVY a set of self portraits he did this week: “A Tamed Horse“.
“This is a set of self-portraits about a tamed man by his horse, when visiting an old house and barn in ruins where I found some harnesses. Its on the line of my work about the relation between men and nature, when men can be wilder than animals, sometimes untamed.
Horses had always been a symbol of manhood, once we all have a need of tame the other, even in relationships. A question of wild egos. Tame and be tamed, in the wildest and primary sense. So here I use my own body as man and as horse in a play “who tames who”, Being my own horse for a while…” – G. Bènard
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Photographer Gonzalo Bénard selected 12 of his favorite models he photographed in 2009. After seeing these beautiful photos by clicking on thumbnails below, make sure to revisit previously Bénard features on YVY.
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We’ve previously showed you Gonzalo Bènard’ Self-Portraits… Today Spanish-based art-photographer Gonzalo Bènard shares with us 10 most recent abstracts/bodyscapes images he did. More after the jump!
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Photographer: Gonzalo Benard
Living and working in Spain, art-photographer Gonzalo Bènard explores the power and influence of memory in his work. Surreal, occasionally bizarre, provocative, conceptual, often ironic, Bènard mixes cultures, rites and rituals, life and death. Encompassing everything human his work speaks of faith, sex, spirit and what it is to be alive and trying to make sense of a world that cannot make sense of itself.
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