London Photo Show 2026 has started
My work is on a gallery wall in London for the first time. A triptych of my artistic nude images is part of the London Photo Show 2026 at Hoxton Arches, Cremer Street, running until Sunday 28th June, 11am–6pm, free entry. A personal milestone. If you happen to be nearby, go and see them — and let me know what you think.
Notes from a practice – Why the female nude body?
Fine art nude photography is too often misunderstood: by the market, by the internet, and by many who practice it. In this essay I explore why a sapiosexual photographer chooses the female body as his primary subject, what the nude can express that other portraiture cannot, and what personal and cultural forces shape the work I make.
Artistonish magazine #70, May 2026 is out!
Announcing the availability of the 70th Artistonish magazine issue feauturing one of my light painting images. A leap for my artistic photography career and an happy moment to celebrate together.
Pictorialism in Europe: Robert Demachy
Robert Demachy, the French Pictorialist photographer born into wealth and freed from every material constraint, devoted his life to elevating photography into art through alchemical printing techniques. This article explores his biography, his photographic philosophy and the striking relevance of his ideas in today's world of AI-threatened image making.
Twilight of artistic nude photography genre: Sally Mann — The Eye That Stays Home
A profile of Sally Mann, one of America's most significant and controversial photographers. From her intimate family portraits to haunting Southern landscapes, from mortality studies to racial reckonings — a career of unflinching artistic honesty, told through biography, career overview, and personal considerations.
From the past a source for artistic nude photography future: William Mortensen: The Antichrist of Hollywood
William Mortensen, the great Pictorialist photographer of the 1930s, was deliberately erased from photography history by Ansel Adams and the Group f/64. A Hollywood veteran, darkroom alchemist and visual psychologist, his grotesque nudes and occult imagery are today recognized as a direct precursor to digitally manipulated photography.
Twilight of the Artistic Nude Photography genre: Robert Mapplethorpe - Perfection on the Edge of Darkness
Robert Mapplethorpe: a Catholic upbringing, a sculptor's eye, and an uncompromising pursuit of formal beauty that pushed photography into territories few dared to follow. The opening chapter of the Twilight era of artistic nude photography — where beauty and transgression become inseparable twins.
The Last Transitional Author: Irving Penn
Irving Penn — fashion photography's undisputed master — was also one of the twentieth century's most serious practitioners of nude art photography. From his suppressed early studies of 1949-50 to his celebrated late sessions with the era's top models, this is the story of an artist who had to earn the freedom to pursue his most personal work.
Transitional Authors 1: Edward Weston
In this fourth installment of our Artistic Nude History series, we explore Edward Weston—a pivotal transitional figure who moved from soft-focus Pictorialism to sharp modernist photography. Through relationships with Margrethe Mather, Tina Modotti, and Charis Wilson, Weston pioneered en plein air nude photography while treating the human body with the same formal rigor he brought to peppers and shells.
Instant Beauty of Beatrice
Finishing the Beatrice Dileo series with 5 new instant nude photos taken with my Lomography instant camera. Everything was guesswork - framing, exposure, focus - all a gamble. But the colors, those distinctive Fuji instant colors, remain authentic as I scanned these images using the pixel-shift function of my K1 digital camera.
Beatrice’s beauty in motion
This week, within this new creative artistic nude portraits we set in motion the sublime Beatrice Dileo beauty. Experimentation for future art nude project that will become, gradually, more narrative oriented. No holiday for me this year, so stay tuned!
Artistic nudes with Lorih Caradonna
Here I am with 5 new creative artistic nudes of model Lorih Caradonna taken at Raffaele Sorrentino’s studio. Images will be censored or heavely cropped on my site and on social platform, but visible in complete form only at patreon.com/francescocoppolaphotography(, I am waiting for you there!
Fleeting Beauty & a New Chapter
Delve into my 6 new Black and White creative artistic nude photos taken at model Giulia Lunghini and in Kioki Studio sited in Cologno Monzese (Mi) and check out the first pre announcement of my near opening of a Patreon account.
Dlìn Dlòn! Time’s Up! My Second Sale Campaign Has Ended.
It is the closing time for my second sale campaign of close edition of art giclée. numbered, signed and certified prints. No one has been sold and its ok for one side, not much for another. Read this article to know how I react to this situaion and what I am planning to do next.