Raw Perspectives from Top Photographers

Every photographer has his or her explanation of what it is to be raw. Enjoy these pictorials from some of the industry’s best. Photography by Laretta Houston, Tarrice Love, Gregory Prescott, William Elliott Springfield, Corey Reese, and Jerris Madison.

Raw: Perception of a human being. I feel this is another perception of what we are as human beings. We have dismissed the similarities between animal behavior and human behavior. We both have the combination of self preservation of survival, sex and greed (we want, we take).
Laretta Houston
www.larettahouston.com

Left:
Raw to me means, pure uncut, free from shame, free from theopinionsof the world.
Corey Reese
www.coreyreesephotography.com

Right:

Raw is being able to find beauty you believe in and stand behind it unconditionally….
Tarrice Love
www.ice-itsocool.com

Top Left:
Raw is to be stripped of all inhibitions and getting down to the real essence. Raw is purity without any additives, so you can see the true being; the naked truth.
Gregory Prescott
www.gregoryprescott.com

Left Bottom:
Raw: Being you without compromising your artistic integrity and artistic vision. Stopping when needed to reinvent your mind and never stopping your creativity because someone says so.
Image: White Sands Desert, New Mexico
Jerris Madison
www.jerrismadison.com

Right:
The definition of the word ‘raw’ fits my style perfectly, my work is natural, uncultivated, in an unrefined state, harsh, in your face, like flesh after an abrasion RAW, it will sometimes make you cringe, but you still can’t look away.
William Elliott Springfield
www.diaryofaphotographer.com