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THE EROTICISM OF JOSEPH DEL DUCA. PART 2

As we mentioned yesterday in our first post dedicated to photographer Joseph Del Duca, we had gathered far too much material to fit it all into a single post.

So today we’re back with a second selection of his work: new images in which he once again embraces natural light, simple compositions, and the sense of intimacy that makes his nude photography feel authentic, intimate, and visually powerful.

The second installment of Joseph Del Duca.



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When you’re in the middle of a fight but already know you’ll be the one who has to fix everything afterward.

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AUGUST IS SLIPPING AWAY

August officially ends on Monday, but we’ve decided to say goodbye to it today, the way it deserves, because the end of August should always be marked with a minute of silence, a cold beer and a distant stare into the horizon.

August isn’t just a month. August is a way of looking at life. It’s the month we automatically associate with holidays, even if it’s been years since we had the kind of summer break we remember from childhood. It means waking up without an alarm, having no idea what day it is, eating at ridiculous hours and discovering that a shower, a pair of flip-flops and a clean T-shirt can be considered perfectly acceptable formalwear.

For a few weeks, even people without a penny to their name get to feel rich. Not because their bank balance suddenly has more zeros, but because they have something far more valuable: time in which nobody is telling them what to do.

You can be sitting on your balcony in a plastic chair, drinking a can of beer while listening to your neighbor argue with his wife, and still feel as though life is smiling at you. Because you don’t have to work tomorrow. Because you don’t need to set the alarm. Because for a few hours, the world can keep spinning without you having to take part in it.

But everything comes to an end. The suitcases go back into the closet, the flip-flops return to the bottom of the shoe rack and the alarm clock reappears on the bedside table with the same asshole attitude it has always had. September arrives loaded with schedules, unanswered emails, school runs, traffic and people claiming that this time they really are going to start taking the gym seriously.

Most people will already have to start looking ahead to August 2027 to fantasize about that brief period of the year when we can pretend we’re actually in control of our own lives. There are twelve months to go, but there’s no point thinking about it too much. We just have to keep surviving one week at a time, one public holiday at a time and one beer at a time.

Today, we raise a glass to August. To those who traveled to the other side of the world and those who never left their neighborhood. To those who slept in five-star hotels and those who set up an inflatable pool on the terrace. Because holidays aren’t always about going somewhere far away. Sometimes they’re simply about nobody being able to force you to be anywhere else.

Until next year, August. You didn’t last long, you cost us far too much and, as always, you disappeared just as we were starting to get used to being alive.





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WE'VE BEEN ADMIRING BEAUTY THE SAME WAY WE DID 2,000 YEARS AGO

There's something fascinating about Artificial Intelligence. It doesn't just imagine the future; it can also invent a past. A past that never existed, yet somehow feels strangely believable. Places that were never photographed. People who never walked the Earth. Scenes that no historian could ever place on a map, and yet our brains accept them for a few seconds as if they belonged to some forgotten corner of the Mediterranean two thousand years ago.





It's like a time machine built out of pixels. It doesn't take us back to the past—it takes us back to the idea we have of the past. It blends historical references, imagination, and a touch of nostalgia to create memories of something that never actually happened. We know it's fiction, yet a part of us willingly chooses to believe it.

Maybe that's because, even though the scenery changes, some things never do. Empires have risen and fallen. Religions, languages, borders, and even the way we understand the world have changed. But our fascination with beauty has been with us ever since humans first began leaving traces of their existence.





The Egyptians carved it into stone. The Greeks sculpted it in marble in search of impossible perfection. The Romans covered the walls of their villas with frescoes. Painters, sculptors, and poets throughout history have all tried to capture something that can never truly be frozen in time: a glance, a smile, or curves capable of making someone stop and look, even when their mind was somewhere else.

We like to think we've changed a lot, but we're probably still wired to respond to the same things our ancestors did. Technology has evolved at an incredible pace. We've gone from chisels to cameras, from paintings to video, and now from photography to Artificial Intelligence. The tools change, but not what they're trying to capture.





Maybe that's why these images work so well. Not because they're trying to recreate history with perfect accuracy, but because they evoke an era we all imagine in a similar way. A simpler world, closer to nature, where clothing was little more than a piece of fabric, light came from the sun or a candle, and beauty had exactly the same power it has today.

Two thousand years from now, someone might come across these AI-generated images and look at them the same way we look at a classical statue or a Roman fresco. Not because they'll think they were real, but because they'll instantly understand what we were trying to preserve. Civilizations rise and fall, tools evolve, and technology keeps moving forward... but there are some things that never stop capturing human attention.



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My new tattoo.

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I'VE SEEN AN ANGEL

They say angels earn their wings by helping people find the right path. She earned hers in record time. I'm just not entirely sure whether she's here to redeem us from our sins... or remind us of a few more.



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Leap of faith.

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THE INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY: ARI KYTSYA

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Involution.

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SAN HENDERSON 2026

Over the past few days, we've been revisiting the work of several photographers we featured on ALRNCN nearly a decade ago. It's fascinating to see how their style has evolved over the years and where their creative journey has taken them.

Today it's Sam Henderson's turn. Based in Miami, he returns with Femme ArtNude, his latest series of erotic photographs. A new collection that continues his exploration of the beauty of the female body through elegant, carefully crafted, and highly personal photography.



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I have no idea what people see in riding that thing... especially when they have to pay for it.

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