Guardians

How can we reconnect with nature? With the profound nature of human and non-human things.

How can we reconnect with nature? With the profound nature of human and non-human things.

Inventing ways to reconnect with the environment has become a crucial issue that contributes to the emergence of a new global consciousness.
And a new culture. Etienne Renzo's photographs of naked bodies merging with nature, including his series of shepherdesses, are part of this movement.

They are a beautiful response to consider. These images have something bucolic and mythical about them, as they refer to the Eden of a bygone pastoral era when humans were still connected to their environment and to living things. Not so long ago, in fact, before the great bifurcation.

Here, the bodies are intimately linked to the elements, to the earth, air and water, but also to minerals, plants and animals. They exist in osmosis, that is to say, in reciprocity with their context. Captured in their simplest form, like their naked and hairy animals, the shepherdesses are on equal footing with their flock. What better way to feel alive and connected than through nudity? It is a very good way to reconnect with nature.

This is why these images also have something ecological, feminist and erotic about them.
So much so that the image itself becomes an instance of reconnection through its own vitality derived from the energies it relays.

These photographs can be seen both as antidotes to the prevailing gloom and doom and as images of healing, insofar as they transmit energies of salvific reconnection.