The photographer Natasha Gudermane was shocked by the recent French ban on the word mademoiselle (Ms.), which will no longer appear on administrative documents. She sent us this portfolio entitled Mesdemoiselles ou les portraits intimes de parisiennes.

"It's been a few years now that I've been living in Paris. It's been months that I've been undressing my friends, their friends and complete strangers I meet in the streets of Paris, in front of my camera. I photograph young parisian women nude and always at their home, in their own intimate surroundings. Being a foreigner, I use my work as a means to approach and better undertstand these women, who I first found to be quite different. Having nothing on to cover their bodies, my models seem to envelope themselves in their souls. It is this magic moment I am trying to capture in my lense. Feminity, mystery and poetry are what I am looking for, with the help of my camera, in this pragmatic contemporary world."

Natasha Gudermane