Artist:Michael Lawson, London, UK

Lambda prints, in terms of archival longevity are the best that photography can currently manage. These will last more than 100 years without change if hung in subdued light - and 200 years if kept in a box.

Girl With Fan And Pearls

The Garland

A Lady And Two Gentlemen

Symphony In Black No. 1

Violin Concerto No. 3

Photographer Michael Lawson
Michael Lawson is largely self-taught as a photographer and came to art nude work in 2004 after seeing the beautiful, painterly work of the great New York photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston.
Well outside the mainstream of most contemporary photography of the female nude, his style lays much emphasis on posing and composition, and is characterised by the use of props which both add to the compositional strength of his works and also reflect light in a manner reminiscent of seventeenth-century artists such as Jan Vermeer; note, for example, the fabric draped over the model's legs in /The Garland/. In some cases, such as /A Lady and Two Gentlemen/, there are deliberate references to Old Master paintings.
Michael is for ever expanding on what he has learned, always pushing himself to produce fresh, new, exciting compositions. His main aim is to celebrate female beauty in an appropriately beautiful way, and believes that his stylish, classical photographs will, like Cheney Johnston's, continue to give pleasure even after repeated viewing.

Michael Lawson's Gallery
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