Not nude, but newly seen. UnNude reshapes the body into geometry—where flesh becomes sculpture, and desire dissolves into form.
The body is no longer naked—it is form. In UnNude, nudity is stripped of its erotic and gendered readings and reimagined as sculptural abstraction. Here, light, pose, and space transform the body into a living sculpture.
Photographed over many years by Burak Bulut Yildirim, a Berlin-based photographer with more than two decades dedicated to nude art, UnNude is a study in de-eroticized sensuality. Limbs curve like calligraphic lines, torsos fold into geometric fragments, and shadows carve the skin into statuesque contradictions. Faces are absent, gender evaporates—what remains is the idea of the body. There are echoes of Auguste Rodin’s bronze fragments, Barbara Hepworth’s voids, and Bauhaus-era experiments with perspective and distortion. The viewer is not invited to desire, but to witness transformation. The human body becomes an object of design, a shape that holds space, a mark of light. Burak’s lens isolates the figure until it resembles abstract architecture. Some frames recall the ritualized movement of modern dance, others the meditative stillness of minimal sculpture. Not anatomy, but geography. The body unfolds like land—contoured, layered, mysterious.
This is the terrain where physicality ceases to be familiar. In Burak’s vision, nudity does not expose but conceals—it shields identity in geometry. UnNude continually evolves, drawing from the archives of nearly 20 years of experimental nude photography, refined through years of studio isolation and sculptural study. Each limited edition print invites collectors into a language of form—a visual lexicon where the body is not to be consumed, but to be decoded.
https://burakbulut.org/unnude/
