Toast, butter, banana and coffee with the weekend edition of Politiken, (Danish national newspaper) is morning ritual during weekends at my home. Politiken usually has photo-series in their Kultur (culture) section which i keep a keen eye on. And on todays newspaper  (23July2011), they did have a series on people hanging round my neighborhood beach – Amager Strandpark, even though it was not exactly a Bondi-beach weather. The photographer managed to capture odd entities in the series. But then, this picture turned up !

 This photograph woke a series of questions in me. A girl, gladly exposing her breasts to the photographer. Now, nudity is not a taboo on this side of the planet, but it happens on sunny days on beaches and parks, preplanned (photo-session) or in a state of drunkenness (music festivals or weekend parties). Since, neither was the situation on a random day at the beach, my next curiosity was to find who the photographer was.

Yes, my fears were true. It was a lady photographer (Miriam Dalsgaard). Can you imagine me, or any other man (well, unless your name is Terry Richardson and the girl is a wannabe Kate Moss) get a chance to shoot a picture like this?…. Seriously, ask yourself that question twice !

The next picture kind of made me sigh in misery in the behalf of all the photographers of my gender. A picture of a random girl on the beach, completely relaxed and uninhibited (That too, a girl from USA!)

This photographer has earned several photography prizes, and i just can’t overlook the factor that her gender has played a factor in it as well?

And yeah, i’m not complaining…. its just a thought !!