I love Barberos, it's my home country, it's where all of my upbringing and happiness is
centered, it's where I grew up and had fun with my friends and I had a wholesome childhood,
you know, a childhood that was centered around family and friends, the simple things of life
and it was a really good childhood.
Then I had the opportunity to come to the United States.
I'm Steve Selman, I'm a fine art nude photographer in Brooklyn, New York and I love what I do.
And coming here to the United States, I was able to be my own person, not direct air pressure,
to lead me away and to like whatever I wanted to like and that was amazing, to be able to
become who Steve is today.
I have these awesome memories of being involved in art at a very early age, you know, back
in Barberos it was called technical drawing and then I did pottery, I did art also and
it was, it opened my mind to a lot of different ways of being expressive, of being creative
and it was something I really enjoyed in my teens and when I came here to the United States
I realized that I don't have to meet those passions anymore, I can continue those passions
and that's exactly what I did.
I was hunting for a hobby for extremely long time, I went through so many different things,
it was something that I was looking for, something where I could get my patches out and I found
photography, I found photography by just buying my first point and shoot camera, I remember
the model up to this day was the Canon A10, it was cheap as hell and it was, but it gave
me some beautiful images and it got me involved in what an aperture is, what a, you know, shutter
speed is, I saw all these basics of photography and taught me and went all the way up to my
first SLR and that was a great feeling, but I realized that I still didn't have the fundamentals
of what photography was and I tasked myself, Steve, you're going to learn all of this stuff.
You're going to learn what is the reverse square long and all of these different things
in photography and I tasked myself to do that and I said, give yourself a year.
From there on, enter my first Badour maternity shoot, it opened my eyes to a lot of different
things, it opened my eyes to the beauty of the human body.
That led me down to my path into art and photography, to be a human and to be artistic
was something that was beautiful.
I have not yet shot someone that I did not enjoy shooting, that did not capture beauty,
that had all shapes, sizes, races, religions and it's something that I have been able to
just tap into that beauty of whoever I was shooting at the time and it's something that
I can look back to my first shoot and I can find images that I really have a connection
to.
My inspiration mostly comes from all different things, I get inspired by the art I create
but it could be a movie I watched the day before.
It's always some silhouetted model, you know, just dancing, moving, it was just a lot of
freedom that they had and it's always been an inspiration in the work that I do because
I love silhouetted form, the human form, any chance I get I shoot it and I've kind of
mastered that.
The future is going to be something, not planned, art and photography is something that you
can do for life and there's always something in this earth or something around you, your
natural settings that always inspire you, that motivate you, that you become an activist
through the art.
So it's something that I think for the rest of my life I will continue to do.
Trying to open up everyone's eyes to that the human body is something artistic and it's
all about love and happiness, you know, it's nothing about being derogatory or being any
other vulgar thing that the human body has been made out to be, you know, so that's my
goal also, you know, to spread a message that the human body is very beautiful, you know,
so that's my goal also, you know, so that's my goal also, you know, so that's my goal
also, you know, so that's my goal also, you know, so that's my goal also, you know,
