Lean on Me by Kevin Bacher BGAS25

Kevin Bacher

I've been making photographs since 1986, when I spent a summer working at Grand Canyon National Park and my grandfather gifted me his trusty Pentax K1000. When my son was born, I fell in love with the challenge of portrait photography. I worked with figure models for the first time through a local meetup group, and quickly recognized the power of the human body to express the elemental aspects of what it means to be human. Naturally, I gravitated toward combining my interest in figure photography with my love of all things wild and natural. The relationship between humanity and the natural world is the primary theme of my art--depicting artistic nudes in nature or, just as compelling, in urban environments. My work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout the United States and Europe.