While previously the man was known for his photographic work in narrow circles, after the story was covered in the media, ordinary people who did not attend photo exhibitions learned about him. The court did not press any charges against the photographer, and the actions of the police and FSB officers were called wrongful.Īfter this scandalous event, many people started to talk about Jock. However, he was defended by the European and American art communities, which later greatly influenced the course of the case. investigators have been working on this case for over a year, trying to gather as much evidence as possible on Jock Sturges. Then the man’s cameras and computers were confiscated, as well as a large number of photos and negatives. The apartment in San Francisco was broken into by police and FBI representatives. In 1990, the first scandal happened to the name of Jock. The passion of an adult man to shoot teenage girls naked soon attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies. In the summertime, he visits beaches in California, Ireland, and France, where men’s attention is attracted by nudists, whom he takes pictures for his collection. Photo ArtĪfter choosing this type of art, Jock Sturges moves to San Francisco and already there enters the local Art Institute, while continuing to work hard. He travels around educational institutions and part-time, teaching the art of photography. After receiving his education, the young man did not start working in his specialty. Returning home in 1970, Sturges moved to Vermont, and there went to Marlborough College, where he studied pedagogical psychology. Already there, the young man learned the first basics of photography and eventually became the chief photographer of the military base. Little is known about the children’s years of the future photographer, he studied at a regular high school, and after its completion went on to serve in the army, which was held in Japan. Those who can see in his pictures something other than beauty, perfection, and innocence, should think about whether everything is normal with him. He shoots beautiful people, once again proving with his pictures how perfect a person is, how perfect is his body.

He is constantly banned, persecuted, and accused of various sins. That is why the viewer of Jock Sturges can feel embarrassed, lost in the definitions between “perfection, beauty, grace, sensuality, eroticism, pornography. Modern European culture paradoxically inherits both attitudes to the body. The body lost its sacredness, which was well felt by the Romans and Greeks, in the dark ages, when Christianity put on it the brand of sinfulness and evil. Its image increasingly has an explicit sexual connotation and is objectified or is a commodity. In society, the naked body, especially the female body, ceased to be something divine. The subjects of the images are reminiscent of the classical painting of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and are rich in textures, details, physical and psychological nuances. However, the digital negatives of this photo exhibition were taken with the legendary Leica camera.

Most of his portraits were created by Jock Sturges using a bulky full-format camera with an 8×10 inches frame. Inner freedom, beauty, the youth of his models inspire the photographer throughout life. Something that each of us can lose when ruthless time drives us out of the Paradise of Childhood and Youth. They look attentively at the viewer, demanding to remember something very important. His models, regardless of age, shine with inner light and calmness. It’s the light that allows the author to show more than the body in his works. Natural light is a true friend of the photographer. For 50 years Jock Sturges has been photographing nude scenes on the coasts of California, France, and Ireland.

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