Building my Internet store [link] has been an adventure and it is now online. More artwork will be posted in the future. Every piece of art offered for sale on my website is an original - personally proofed, printed, signed, matted, and framed. Artwork is available with or without frame.

Please create an account and sign in to view pricing. My deviantArt followers can take advantage of a special 75% discount good during the month of April 2009 by entering the coupon code "dA75". Paypal is available for quick, easy and reliable check out!

If there is something you have seen in my gallery that is not offered in the store, send me a note and I'll make it available to you.

I will be exhibiting one of my images "Girls in Danish Window by Moonlight" [link] at Nude Nite Orlando [link] on Feb 12 - 14. Nude Nite is a juried art exhibit focusing on nude art and eroticism. It is one of the largest art exhibits of its type in the US. My work is one of 200 pieces selected for the exhibit. The work is offered for sale at the exhibit.

One of my photos submitted to the National Geographic Visions of Paradise contest, "Valley of the Sun III", has been selected as a favorite by the editors. This version is very similar to the image on my main page except that it has not been "Photoshopped". I would appreciate your vote.YOu can view the submission at [link] It is #8 on Week 7. Once you have the thumbnails for Week 7 showing, click on the menu item at the top of the window "VIEW AND VOTE". When my photo comes up in the sequence, Please VOTE it a 10. Thanks!

Sam

I just returned from a photographic exhibit called Fashion Statement, curated by Mary Stanley of the Mary Stanley Studio. In addition to some very different styles of photography reflecting "fashion", there was one artist who totally blew away my perspective on what fashion is.

Let me start by saying that my perspective on fashion is that it serves to enhance the beauty of the model and that it is secondary to the model who is wearing the fashion. This is not mainstream fashion photography though. Mainstream fashion photography has commercial intent and the emphasis is on the garment not the model - the model is there to make the fashion look good. But neither of these constructs are what really blew me away.

What blew my mind was that fashion need not be beautiful or even flattering to qualify as fashion photography. The larger than life sized, fashion photography I was looking at was photographed with technical excellence. Hard light allowed the texture of a thread bare, burlap-like fabric, hand tied around the model forming a garment to pop right off the page. The framing of one picture did not show the model's face, instead it was waist down to bare, calloused feet standing in dust. Another picture of the same model, head to toe, revealed leathery skin and imperfect teeth forming a stoic, removed stare. I was looking at fashion photography of an impoverished african woman "modeling" her rag-tied clothes on location! This body of work could have been shot in a Dafour refugee camp. It was neither beautiful nor flattering but it was clearly fashion photography. The photographer had made a visual fashion statement.

Go figure!

FashionPH, a popular online fashion magazine published for the Italian Fashion industry has featured "Super Woman", the photographic work of Sam Dobrow, in it's October 2008 issue (page 53). The 139 page magazine, written in Italian, can be downloaded from the FashionPH website www.fashion-ph.it. This international exposure further supports the appeal of Sam Dobrow's glamour photography to a progressive, fashion-aware, European market. Sam described his work to Elisa Benni of FashionPH:

"My photographs portray women in a confident, powerful, sexy, and sensual manner. The concept of a feminine superhero with a sensitive and alluring persona rather than a "typical macho female character" allowed me to present a very feminine yet strong character. I allowed the wardrobe to convey the sense of strength and character while using low key lighting and a slightly soft focus to convey the intimacy of the character. My intention was to convey power and strength of character differently than through physical strength and violent behavior (fighting)."

Sam Dobrow's photography can be seen on the web at www.samdobrowphotography.com