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Photographer Wong Sim turns male sensuality into masterful art
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Shadow: Tobi Klanner photographed by Wong Sim, 2017. (Courtesy of Wong Sim) (Courtesy of Wong Sim/Wong Sim)
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ong Sim transforms male sensuality into a respectable, artistic statement. A little hint: it is not always about perfect bodies.
Contrary to popular belief, there is a complexity behind seductive pieces of photography. Take Wong Sim's body of work, for instance. As one of the most seasoned and acclaimed fashion photographers in Indonesia, Wong Sim has been heralded for his uncanny ability to produce images of his subjects at their barest and most physically sensuous.
That said, there is a stark difference between ravishing art and what the internet calls 'thirst traps'. To produce the former, the 50-year-old photographer believes that having models with perfect bodies is not necessarily the primary requisite.
"Sense of style is important [for what I do]," he told The Jakarta Post. "How to arrange the model's pose, which poses work and which poses don't, the angle that works best for them, how to work the clothes; we [as photographers] must be able to see all those things in a single frame. There's a sense that must be honed."
Wong Sim's sense as a photographer is sharp enough to document some of the world's sexiest men in their, well, even sexier form. Nonetheless, contrary to popular belief, he also believes that sexiness does not necessarily equal lust.
"It's less about being stimulating and more about how to make people spend more time looking at [the photo]," he added cheekily.
