Jeffrey McAlister works in the arts in the New England area of the northeast United States. He began shooting nudes over a decade ago.

“For me the nude was a natural destination. No other subject is so fundamental nor can I see any subject I feel so personally and emotionally. We hunger for it and fear it, celebrate the body and condemn it. Ultimately I was drawn to shooting the nude, like a moth to a flame.”

Jeff’s progression from art nudes into the realm of more sexual work was also part of what he views as a natural progression. After some years making, “art nudes” the voices in his head kept asking why one pose was considered acceptable and other poses considered porn. What, in societal terms, makes breasts a fashion element, and pussies into pornography?

“I realized that at the very core of my heart and mind was this abiding certainty that erotic physical and emotional sexual desires exist on the one hand as wildly pivotal to being human, and concurrently they have been virtually criminalized - every one is suppose to be sexual, want and give and take, but we’re also suppose to be completely covert about it, even in a society that promotes open sexuality. Nowhere is this laughable hypocrisy more evident than in the world of graphic art and advertising. A women, mimicking orgasm, can sell shampoo during prime time on Television, but if I photograph an open vagina I’m immoral? With the advent of the Internet, no one can deny any longer that people long for, consume and revel in explicit imagery of sex of all kinds. “

As Mr. McAlister began to shoot the erotic nude he simply followed his heart and his training, committing himself to the same elements of fine composition and art printing that all serious photographers had used and perfected over the decades. If the world is full of sexual images that are cold and gratuitous, his work is ardently neither.

“ To me sex is exquisite, and women majestically lovely gifts from God. In my work I strive to search out the reasons and the ways we lust for women, for their heat and touch, their intellect, fire and tenderness. I was not particularly of a fetish mindset when I started, but again and again friends and models showed me why that context moved them. To deny it in images seemed such a waste. More than all those physical details though, I strive to find that intense place where the lust and the heart of the person I’m shooting shine out as one. No matter what the physical context is I want my work to express my belief that what we crave at it’s hottest is purely human and sweet and good. I’ve also had to embrace the reality that the open communication of ideas and feelings in the sharing of the work between my model and me is a huge element in what you see. Any image I make that I consider good expresses the lust and the faith of both the model and artist.”

Jeff McAlister’s work is classic, elegant, explicit, raw, dynamic, dirty and honest. Any who are old enough can view it in his gallery website, c7erotica.com, or in the publication, “The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotic Women”.

“The Photo series, Laney's Passion #s 1 - 8 represents an approach I’ve used more than once. On the rare chance that a model finds herself on the edge of orgasm during a shoot, I am drawn magnetically to her face. That world we all descend into when we cum, is familiar yet rather mysterious. In mainstream porn, one sees millions of female orgasms, most completely fake. This model brought me amazing honesty and an expressive angel’s face. Her lust is rather compelling too”.

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