Tracy Lee

Website: Tracy Lee Web Site

About the author

For fifteen years, Tracy Lee's erotica photography has featured a single model -- herself. Her portfolio accordingly reflects her evolving perspective on the art from both sides of the camera. One of the original online journalists, she has been profiled in The Village Voice and Yahoo: Internet Life, among other publications. Her work appeared in the books Torn Shapes of Desire: Internet Erotica (1996), Naked Women: The Female Nude in Photography from 1850 to the Present Day (2001) and most recently in The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotic Women (2005).

http://www.tracyleephoto.com

"I celebrate the human form in my art. I experiment with light and shadows, form and figure, grain and texture. For the past fifteen years I have been focusing my lens on exposing the human body - particularly the female body (specifically my female body) as my subject.

I strive to be open-minded. I observe, I immerse myself, I learn and I grow.

Nudity is an accepted part of my life. I look at a nude and I see beauty, I see the fluid motion, I see shapes and lines and forms. There is beauty in the body. Every line, every curve. Faces sometimes don't matter: my photographs aren't about me (not always, anyway) but about a woman. Any woman.

Sex is a wonderful, beautiful thing and to deny this to yourself and to anyone is a waste. To embrace the beauty of sex is enlightening. Live, love, and enjoy. Human beings are created to have sex - it is as natural a part of life as living and breathing. Open your eyes, try something new, do something different. You're dead for a very long time so don't throw away what time you have.

I am an artist. I want to make you think. If only for a moment I want you to look at the world through my eyes. I want you to feel what I feel when I create it. And I want you see the beauty of the body."