Dean Stockings takes us into peoples lives and living rooms with Sofa So Naked

Sofa So Naked is a snap shot of the society we live in. Peeping into the living rooms and lives of a cross section of our community, from students to celebrities, young to old

From clashing patterns on carpets and curtains in the English countryside, to sleek minimalist apartments in NYC, the viewer soon becomes more interested in the models surroundings than in the naked body on display.

Each of the models appear naked on their own sofa, in their own home, with just one prop of their choice. Models are as exposed or covered as they choose, depending on their modesty or the size of their prop!

The prop, chosen by the model to reflect their personality, is related to their work, a hobby or perhaps a favourite possession. Each portrait is accompanied by a questionnaire completed by the model and reproduced in the book exactly as they returned it, including doodles, lipstick and coffee stains…

Sofa So Naked was photographed between 2004 and 2005 and is available in book format for the first time exclusively through blurb.com

Please note Sofa So Naked contains full frontal nudity. Visit www.deanstockings.co.uk

Hardcover with dust jacket. 120 pages. Premium matt paper. £34.95

About Dean Stockings

Stockings’s colourful, kitsch and often camp studio shoots are what he has become known for the world over.

Described by Bowens Litebook as one of the UK’s pre-eminent photographers, he primarily shoots fashion and portraiture. Clients include Boy George, Samantha Fox, Toyah Willcox and Beverley Knight.

Shooting for magazines as far afield as Australia, Europe and the USA, Stockings’s work has graced the covers of many international publications and been included in exhibitions and photographic anthologies around the world. There have been various interviews and articles in the press about his work and In 2009, the prestigious Professional Photographer magazine ran a six page feature on him entitled ‘A Day in the Life of Dean Stockings’.

His biggerpixel.co.uk offshoot continues to handle growing numbers of traditional and civil ceremony wedding commissions.

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