“It is impossible to study the bodies of these confident women without being engaged in a visual dialogue. The viewer must meet their gaze or look away,” Genevieve Field, cofounder of Nerve

“The viewer is asked to accept the model’s gaze and enter the subject’s mystery and narrative. Surely eroticism is present, but if that’s all these photographs offer then they’re a failure and cheap. This isn’t pornography, these aren’t clichéd nudes of women exploited by the male gaze, and it’s not staged boudoir portraiture - these are soulful portraits made in partnership with lovely beings, that is all,” Greg Friedler