Amnios

amnios [amnjos] (Gr. amnion) n. A thin, tough, membrane which encloses the embryo of a mammal, bird, or reptile, filled with a fluid in which the embryo is suspended.

Eric’s Ceccarini’s ‘Amnios’ is a series of soul portraits – the models appear in suspended animation, as if they were about to be born, and full of hidden secrets. This represents a new conceptual departure for Eric, who began as a fashion photographer, moving on to classic artistic nudes, and now showing us the nude in ethereal form. These forms are certainly beautiful, yet a membrane, whose function is unclear, separates them from us: is it to hide, or protect? Eric notes Botticelli as one of his primary inspirations, and one may notice a conceptual mirroring of the Birth of Venus in the Amnios series.

These works are monumental in scale, adding to their sense of restrained power.

Eric Ceccarini

Eric is a Belgian artist born in 1965. He gained a Degree in Photography from INFAC, Brussels in 1987. Since then he has been a fashion photo- grapher working with many of the top houses. Elle, Marie-Claire, L’Oréal, Levi’s, Coca Cola, Virgin, Saab, Delvaux, Lowe Lintas and Ogilvy are some of his clients.
Among other distinctions, his photography for the Saab campaign was awarded the Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.

Eric is set apart from many of his colleagues by his way of shunning technical artifice and working in natural light mostly with Polaroid film. This results in soft, velvety, almost painterly images.

In his artistic works, he captures women’s essence and soul, transcending them.

His work has been exhibited in Belgium, France and Spain.