Nude photography is a genre that explores the human form, often focusing on aesthetics, artistic expression, and the celebration of the body. It can range from highly stylized and conceptual works to more naturalistic and documentary-style images. Ethical considerations, consent, and respect for the subject are paramount in this genre, as is my intent and artistic vision. Although I spend most of my time photographing concerts, surfers, and the beautiful Boise landscape, I’ve always admired the human form and I’ve wanted to photograph it in its most honest and sincere forms, including nude, implied nude, bodyscapes, and fashion nudes.
In 2018 I posted on several Boise forums, asking if anyone would be willing to pose in the nude for me so that I could learn how to photograph nudes. Based on what I’d learned from Barry Kidd’s High Contrast Nude Photography – How to light and shoot bodyscapes video, and using several cheap softbox’s and a portable picnic table draped in a black sheet, I photographed 6 different women in the first month with pretty good results. I got a better camera in early 2019 and learned how to pose women, and sometimes men, using things I’d learned from each model that I photographed. Then I struck gold. I met a gal online that was interested in posing for me, and we met at my apartment after midnight for a one hour nude bodyscape photoshoot. It would be the first time I didn’t need to pose someone. It was clear to me that she had posing or modeling experience. Every pose she struck was new and great for the camera. When we were done, I asked her where she learned to pose like that. She told me that all of her poses were simply yoga poses. Sure enough, the next day I checked against hundreds of yoga images and I found all of her positions. There is a lot of artistic expression that goes into nude posing, but a lot of it is found in yoga.
And then COVID hit. It was late 2019 and everyone was told to mask-up, stay indoors, and avoid each other. But wait! I was learning so much! My nude photography experience slowed down in 2020 to one amazing women that started an OnlyFans. A thin dark-skinned beauty that had so much creative energy that I could hardly keep up. We shot nudes at Jalopy Jungle, Ann Morrison Park, and all along the Greenbelt (see Idaho Statutes, Title 18, Chapter 41, Section 18-4116 for details on Idaho’s indecent exposure laws). I learned a lot about lighting in the winter, and about how to keep someone warm at a photoshoot when the temperatures are freezing!
Post-COVID, I spent most of my time working, drinking, and trying to figure out how I could get back to my passion — photographing nudes in the many forms that it may come. 2025 came and we all survived the crazy political situation. Right or Left, we still have a lot of stuff to figure out, and honestly, I think we have a lot to be thankful about, regardless of our political position. Some weird shit is happening, and I really think that collectively we are going to end up celebrating the human spirit, life, and the good fortune that we all have. This is really off-topic, but to me, it seems like the world is starting to figure out that each of us is all that we have. The ultra-wealthy are starting to recognize the precarious situation that the ultra-poor have always experienced, and it seems to me that we are on the precipice of a massive global change. The world has historically always re-ballanced itself, over and over, for the greater good. I really believe we are about to see this cycle happen again, in its next revolution. But what does that have to do with photographing the human body in the nude?
This year, 2025, I swore to myself that I’d get back into photographing nudes. I live in what’s called the Bench area of Boise. The Bench area of Boise if a naturally elevated part of town that the Boise River doesn’t reach during the 100-year flood. It’s mostly near Ann Morrison Park, Katheryn Albertson Park, and the Boise Train Depot. According to this 90-year old guy I talked to, the Bench is where everyone moved to after the 100-year flood. You see, according to the old guys, Boise is hit with a massive flood every 100 years, or so. The flood wipes out all of the homes and businesses below the Bench area, which is above the flood plain. I don’t really know if that’s true or not, but that’s what I was told, and that’s where I live. I can walk a few minutes and watch the traffic on Capitol Boulevard from the Train Depot. I’m blessed to live here. I rent, and the owners of the place keep the rent affordable. Quite likely, this is the peak goodness of my experience in this life. And I’m okay with that. And while I’m in this amazing and incredible position, I want to photograph beautiful people (that’s all of you!) in this little room I have painted and arranged in this little town of Boise, and in this little weird space in my apartment.
I still have work to do, including nailing up some black backdrops behind the table, but I’m mostly ready to start learning again and helping to create amazing images that some call scandalous, and others call controversial, but that we artists call beautiful.
I call to anyone, male, female, and any other identification, to allow me to document the most intimate, vulnerable, and personal part of your life, in images that will help the world in our little part, to change the world, and at least, to tell our story, and what we believed to be beautiful, important, and everlastingly meaningful. I’m specifically looking to co-create images and video of artistic nudes, implied nudes, and fashion nudes. Please reach out.
My email address is Terry@BadBoy.Photography