"Femina Obscura"

Shortly after I started posting on this blog, one reader asked me why I was shooting and posting photos of beautiful Seychelles girls in such beautiful and pristine natural surroundings, with their back to the camera.

I have to leave most of my women subjects "obscure" as they and I live in a society which views such photography in a bad light. The concept of artistic nudes does not exist although the society is largely amoral.

The girls who pose for me - who are mostly in their teens and have never been photographed before - cannot afford to break the taboo and allow people to know who they are and I cannot ever break this trust between us for it is that trust that allows the photography to happen in the first place.

My photography is an ode to these anonymous angels of the Seychelles feminine diaspora, whose beauty can be seen but cannot have a face put to it. And for the reader, here's one from the front!