Revisit: 2026

Photo-Art Copyright Dennis Mealor 2012

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Life Photography Model, Catherine. She was 50 at the time, a celebration of the older woman. I prefer to photograph models about age 48 to 70 plus. Why not? When I used to do Life Drawing in Buderim, where young models from Brisbane were often hired, I found it a tad boring. The older woman to me has more presence, of all shapes and sizes. Society pretends that it addresses this idea, but it doesn’t. It is still obsessed with making older women look young, with filters, plastic surgery & the like (yawn). Why not embrace Time and how beauty changes into different forms.

I have a book called Painting People, by Lucien Freud. It is mainly of nudes, male and female of all adult ages. It inspires me to disregard the glam flak that dominates today. The book features everyday people. They all carry their own beauty and dignity, whatever age, whatever shape, whatever gender. I stick to this idea like glue, despite the incessant pressure of Society’s so-called norms.

Sermon over (for now).