Duong Quoc Dinh’s nude philosophy

Dinh mainly takes nude photos from five models. His models are not only young, beautiful, good at expressing their feelings, but also have good morals. It took Dinh at least three months to convince these models’ families to allow them to work as nude models.

 

“They (models) understand me, help me make good works and they are proud when my works are highly applauded for their value. The two sides help each other for art. If you work with a hired model, at the beginning her thinking is about money because she works for money. Thus I can catch their body, not their soul,” Dinh said.

 

Contributing to Dinh’s career is his wife. She and Dinh’s nephews often work as “draft” models to help Dinh save time when he works with real models.

 

Dinh now holds a record among Vietnamese photographers with 30 medals, mainly from foreign competitions, for nude photos. “Medals are not my aspiration. I expect to have good works. That’s the first happiness. Medals are material, which can’t please me like good artworks,” he said.

 

Dinh is quite reserved in advertising his nude photos. Besides sending photos to contests and to some newspapers, Dinh had his only solo photo exhibition four years ago, when he began turning from painting to photography. However, that exhibition was not completely a nude exhibition since photos focus on girls’ hands.