THOMAS ILLHARDT 2025After ten years, we dive back into the universe of German photographer
Thomas Illhardt. His work has always played with that unique mix of
beauty, decay, and desire: bodies inside broken spaces, places loaded with stories, and a light that seems to caress and punish at the same time.
But what really defines his recent work is how he pushes eroticism into a more
raw and
direct territory. Illhardt explores
bondage, the tension of ropes, surrender, resistance… all wrapped in a clean, elegant, deeply visual aesthetic. It’s not empty provocation — it’s storytelling, geometry, and skin blending into ruins, abandoned factories, or rooms where time simply stopped.
His models don’t just pose: they
inhabit the space, challenge it, complete it. And that contrast — the fragility of the body against the hardness of the environment — is where his voice becomes most powerful.
Illhardt returns to remind us that eroticism can also be tension, shadow, structure… and that even what’s broken can be
beautiful.
# See photographs
Jellyfish stings.
THE NUDES OF JUUL DE VRIES📷Juul de Vries is a
Dutch photographer based in Zwolle, whose work moves between the
subtlety of black and white and the
emotional power of artistic portraiture.
He alternates studio sessions with
natural or
urban locations, creating images where the line between
reality and
imagination blends effortlessly.
# View photographs
Forget about a second date.