Marc Seyon — nude, portrait and art photography

Making the photographs I see in my mind's eye. Photographer from Trinidad. Want to shoot with me? Get in touch - marc.seyon at gmail dot com

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Whimsical Photos of Everyday Objects Playfully Reimagined Through the Eyes of a Child

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@romimuse Week, Day 2. From the first time we worked together. Sept 2014 at my birthday getaway in #newrybar #nsw My first insight into how amazing this woman is. #romipretzal #artmodel #artnude #photography #camattreephoto #blackandwhite #forestcreature

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Sarifka Morgan

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Queen Dandelion

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Photo by Terry Ewald

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Dance, triptych NYC, 2014

This one is going on my wall!

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Guillame Caron - Magic Women

Artist, Guillaume Caron, reclaims the racial slur ‘coloured’ and replaces it with colourful, in this series of stunning portraits celebrating ‘African beauty’.

All of the works in the series are produced using mixed media, with tropical colours driftingfrom the faces and bodies of these gorgeous women as if their natural beauty and raw sensuality has put a spell on the artist.

For more information on Guillaume Caron and his work here: http://www.guillaumecaron.com/

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I want to share the story behind this photo just as much as the photo itself. I happened upon this old bottle in one of the ancillary buildings at Mount St. Benedict back in March 2012, along with some other interesting artifacts that seemed to date back to at least the mid 1900s. For those who don't know, Mount St. Benedict is a Benedictine abbey nestled in the foothills of Trinidad's Northern Range, dating from 1912. Last week I happened upon a call for submissions from @featureshoot for a group show titled 'Nostalgia', and I immediately recalled these old photos. Looking through them, I was quite miffed with myself that I didn't have a photo of the bottle showing the engraved mark more clearly. The middle and top lines were fairly easy, "Belgique" and "Andenne" respectively, with Google turning up the historic region of Belgium. The meaning of the top line seemed lost to history. With some urging, though, I searched further. It took several casts into the depths of the collective knowledge known as the Internet before someone on Twitter replied "Eug. Loss possibly for Eugene Losson?" A name he'd turned up Googling various combinations. Eugene Losson lead me to another find on Google - the French phrase "Poterie de gres produits refractaires" - "Stoneware pottery refactory products", translated Google. I was on the right track, it seemed. Surely enough, I came upon a website called Bibliotheca Andana, a virtual library for the Andenne region of Belgium which identified Losson & Co, a stoneware pottery factory. I sent my photo to the library's coordinator who confirmed the bottle had, indeed, likely been manufactured by Eugene Losson. The coordinator further told me Mr. Losson's name is enshrined in history as one of 260 martyrs of Andenne shot by German forces in a 1914 massacre. Quite an amazing story for an old bottle in an abandoned building on a Caribbean island, wouldn't you say?

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Masha NYC 2014

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Looking north from the Temple in the Sea Waterloo, Trinidad

You know that one last shot? The one you never take? Because you've taken enough photos. You got the one you want. You're tired. You're ready to go home. The people you're with are ready to go home. You can always come back. All those reasons?

Take it.

I was shooting the Temple in the Sea. 90° off to my right was this unsightly barge and beyond it, the lights of the East/West Corridor. I knew it was there. But it wasn't went out to shoot.

I was already halfway packed up. Tripod legs closed up, camera still on it though. Stopped to chat with a photographer colleague I hadn't spoken to in years and the camera was just sitting there.

A few minutes into the conversation I thought, "Hmm, camera's just sitting there. Might as well point it that way and see what happens..."

30-second exposure later and I end up with the one photo of the evening that makes my wife say "Ooooh! I like that one!"

That last shot? Take it.

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Lighting this cake was a fun little challenge. It's the tallest wedding cake we've done, and I didn't think to walk with my strobes. All I had was one flash. Made do with a bunch of makeshift reflectors/diffusers. Think it turned out alright.

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Spring Bridge detail Blanchisseuse, Trinidad

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Fishing off the old Spring Bridge Blanchisseuse, Trinidad

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Chin Chin

It's been a while since I've shot any gloriously old buildings like this. I miss it.

This will probably make a wonderful print. Maybe I should gift one to the owners?

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Piano Man, 2011.

These are from a shoot I did years ago with my friend Andre Mangatal. He's an amazingly talented classically trained tenor.

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Passing through Scharloo, Curaçao

This is from 2010. I would love to walk through the Scharloo district of Willemstad again and see what has become of these glorious old buildings.

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Greek workers, after months without pay, apply austerity cuts on their bosses car

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Wouldn't this be an awesome photo if those men were blue devils?