Abstract Photographs of Human Bodies in Motion

Japanese photographer Shinichi Maruyama has an interesting series of photos simply titled, “Nude.” Each image shows an abstract flesh-colored shape that’s created by a nude subject dancing in front of the camera.

Although the photographs look like long-exposure shots, they’re actually composite images created by combining ten thousand individual photographs of each dancer. The result is a look in which each model’s body is (mostly) lost within the blur of its movement.

You can find more of Maruyama’s work over on his website.

Shinichi Maruyama (via designboom)

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P.S. Maruyama is the photographer whose hand-tossed water photos we featured back in 2010.

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Image credits: Photographs by Shinichi Maruyama and used with permission