Behind every issue of NUDE is a face that gave it form. Here we celebrate the models and muses who shape our fine art photography, one at a time, with the work they brought to life and the issues they live in. New faces added regularly.
Part muse, part author. Laetitia Bouffard-Roupe brings the discipline of ballet and the patience of yoga to every frame, shaping light as much as she inhabits it. A French fine art model who has posed for hundreds of photographers across dozens of countries, she now writes her own story on Substack. Be your own muse, and mean it.
Magdalena Szczepanska moves like a story the body already knows. The most-featured muse of the whole run, shot for years by Thomas Freyer, she trades surface for psyche and proves that the most powerful nude is the one that lets you in. Femininity as narrative, sensual, self-possessed, and entirely her own.
Laerke Grønborg shoots with one photographer and one only: Michael Gron. Across more than twenty issues of NUDE, their partnership has built a single, unmistakable language, her quiet presence meeting his sensual, fine-art eye. The cover of Nº 58 is hers, the reward of a rare and total creative trust.
Nausicaa Yami treats the body as a character to inhabit. The Italian art model, London-based and years deep in her craft, sculpts each frame with deliberate control, a Roman warrior in one breath, a forest nymph the next. She prefers the honesty of art nude to the gloss of fashion, and it shows.
Giulia Biagioli is a model who is also an artist. Rome-based and endlessly traveling, she brings a fashion eye and a fearless command of the frame to every shoot, as striking in stark black and white as in saturated colour. Her face earned the cover of Nº 19, and one look tells you why.
Denisa Strakova is a fixture of the international art-nude scene, traveling the world since 2012 and working with its finest photographers. Prague-based, precise, and quietly expressive, she carried the cover of Nº 50, and her presence lingers long after the page turns.
From the Big Island of Hawaii, Lei Lilium carried the cover of Nº 6. A longtime muse of Canadian photographer Marc Boily, she has stepped in front of his lens more than once, and the frames carry the ease of two people who trust each other. There is something of the island in her presence: unhurried, warm, and entirely at home in her own skin.
One of the faces that defined our early years. Across ten issues between Nº 10 and Nº 46, Valeria Pakk was a quiet constant as the magazine found its voice, a model whose stillness always read as intention.
A founding-era muse who carried the cover of Nº 2, shot by Marc Boily. Carla Ruiz has been with NUDE since the very beginning and returned for our tribute issues, one of the faces that started it all.
We add a new featured model on a rolling basis. Follow along for the faces and the stories behind the work.
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