Ruven Afanador: Sombra (2004)

Ruvén Afanador (b. 1959) is an internationally renowned photographer of limitless imagination, powerful vision and profound sense of self. He was born in Colombia, and his proud Latin American heritage has inspired his extensive body of work creating an intensely personal language characterized by the balance of bold emotion and delicate nuance. The expressive images in his six books: Torero, Sombra, Mil Besos, Ángel Gitano, Yo seré tu espejo and Hijas del Agua, and his portraiture and fashion editorials, reveal extravagant dreamlike sequences that seem to emerge from Afanador’s original imagination already full grown, always splendid sometimes mischievous, often decadent, all steeped in classic formality. His second book, Sombra, released in June 2004, is of classical dancers. The models in Sombra wore body makeup to appear sun-weathered. Combining Ruven Afandor’s elegant, erotic portraits and nudes of men with a selection of his opulent still-life tableaux that have been inspired by European painting, this is a sumptuous book that revels in the sensuous and the beautiful. Our copy is in very good condition, inside perfect and new, the cover is slightly faded on the left (see photo)