“An Ode to Nude” by Caroline Mackintosh

55€

“Our bodies serve as the vessels through which we navigate life, communicate, breathe, and experience the world”, says South African-born Berlin-based artist Caroline Mackintosh. “Yet, in the contemporary world, we often find ourselves feeling detached from our bodies, from our true selves, and from one another.”

This is the premise for Mackintosh’ new book, “An Ode to Nude”, on sale this month via the photographer’s website and at C/O Berlin and Buchhaltung Walther König. Featuring 168 glorious photographs on 200 pages, the hardcover edition, published via Selfself Books, showcases Mackintosh’s spectacular take on bodies in landscapes, a return to nature in every sense.

Hoping to destigmatize nudity, Mackintosh’s project is a merging of stories of loved ones and strangers, all of them experiencing unique challenges within their bodies – due to illness, surgery, motherhood, ageing – but in a process of coming back to themselves with acceptance, and empowered. An enthralling and celebratory collection.