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Photography by Cathy Raynaud reveals a profound intimacy with the natural world where the human body is not separate from its environment but born from it. Her images dissolve boundaries between the model and landscape, and since she works with both black-and-white and soft color, she creates various moments that are perfect conduits for emotion.

The Language Of Idleness

In Raynaud's work, movement is subdued but never absent as her models rarely pose in the traditional sense. This can be seen in many examples, such as the woman seated on sand, where her hair cascades in the sunlight, a woman reclining on a chair beside a curtain of light, or even multiple models working together to look like a living sculpture in a classical interior.

Cathy uses her camera not to intrude, but to observe, which lets her models exist freely within their own rhythm. While they are captured in the lens, they still radiate freedom in the photographs, giving the result of visual poetry that is...