Uncovered, unprotected, and exposed. At a time when the simple act of
undressing has lost its transgressive nature, Bare brings back the
radical simplicity and honesty of the nude. The idea is quite simple.
Bare is a publication based on imagery. Or, rather, an advertisement-
free, periodicity-free, codex-free independent publication based on
images of naked people. Bare is all about unabashed sexual and
non-sexual portrayals, the combination of humor and awkwardness, flesh
and sincerity, liberation and hedonism, voyeurism and naivity.
Bare is about being human with all its consequences, and all the private
parts in not so private places.
Subverting the logic of web-based image banks, Bare serves as an
exhibition space for photographers to explore a given theme, a new one
for each issue. A theme that serves as a volley though the game itself
is not predetermined. For the first issue, we've chosen the theme of
brothers.
We’re talking pure brotherhood here — the type of bond between people
when they become inseparable, when one can’t function fully without the
other. We all know of such of brothers: when one shows up alone and you
inevitably want to ask him where the other one is. The unconditional
devotion, attachment and affection above reason between people who share
everything and have nothing to hide. Here to issue #1 and brotherhood.