Lotte Riis from Denmark

Age: 37 years Height: 165 cm Nationality: Danish Weight: Contest weight: 64kg Employment: Socialworker

Photographer: Morten Rygaard

Lotte Riis's personal site

Click here for gallery I know you will love her physique.

Comments

[T-Ball]

This is one of the most structurally-coherent fbb photos I've seen. Really brilliant.

[T-Ball]

The subject's hips are placed in line with the point where the cross or rosette would be in a church entry window, with it's angled crosspieces radiating like the sun.

[T-Ball]

The Renaissance-like emphasis on structure and order is obvious, but what isn't so obvious is the socio-political message.

Okay, I'll stop now.

[Katic]

You are so nuts!!

[T-Ball]

Thank you! That's the sweetest thing anyone's said about me in a long time. ;-)

[Tanuki]

You forgot to point out that b&w photos generally emphasize structure, which I'd guess was the intention here.

This is one case where it was more effective to violate the "two-thirds" rule than to follow it. Even though the subject is centered, the composition is so structural that, in this case, centering makes her more a part of the architecture than the featured object.

While I don't agree with the photographer's point of view, he did an excxellent job of expressing it.

[Kitsune]

What's wrong with comparing the structure of a building to the structure of a human body?

[Brandy Alexander]

You guys are so smart, but did you realize that combined with the railing behind her, she herself forms a cross? Thereby forming the external human-form of the symbol in the architecture?

Her pelvis is at that "sacred" place (sacrum) in the architecture symbolizing the seat of creation. This is what makes it so subliminally "feminist". A great photo!

[Roy]

I took this picture some years ago. The building is a famous concert hall in Aarhus, her hometown. If I remember right we only use available light here. We use this building because Lotte is NOT a typical feminine person. I think the building understate that. B/W or Color? My personal choice is color in this kind of subject, but they want B/W…. I’m not shore how this copy is developed. There are more at http://www.lotteriis.dk/gallery_98.html - and this was taken one year before http://www.dialogue.dk/img/PCD1733-20.jpg at same location.

[Roy]

Sorry - THIS picture was taken by Photographer: Morten Rygaard http://www.lotteriis.dk/gallery_02_01.htm - this is my pictures http://www.lotteriis.dk/gallery_98.html

[Brandy Alexander]

Well, at least we've discovered that the wrong photographer was credited. Morten Rygaard is our man. Onward!

Thanks, Roy. You are very kind to clarify this!