Nudity in photography for me is deeply conceptual and symbolical. It's the shedding of mental constructs, social norms, personal insecurities and numerous layers of the acquired human conditioning. As taking the clothes off from our physical bodies, we are exposing the deeper, truer layers of ourselves to the external world, removing the social masks of conditioning from our infinitely complex multidimensional nature.

There is no right or wrong in the core of ourselves. All those acquired values imposed on us by the society, fade away, while the true meaning of our lives and the calling of the spirit start to surface. There is no shame in exposing our weaknesses and vulnerabilities stashed away from others and deeply hidden from ourselves. Exposing them to ourselves and accepting them in our deepest core is the only way to heal and strengthen our beings suppressed by shame and unacceptance. After all, I see life as a workshop or even a battleground for the development of our souls. I wouldn't for anything just let this magical existence to pass by in routine unconscious behavior, delusion and indulgence.

The creative magic happens when the photographer's and the model's intent is aligned with this purpose of being true to yourself and being fully present in the moment, connected to each other and connected to the external world, and the viewer is open to seeing the depth and the subtleties reflected in the image in full presence and without judgement. As a photographer, I am on an infinite journey of refining my skills and the messages I am trying to deliver through my work. This is a life-long journey of self-expression through passion and inspiration.

A talented Ukrainian photographer, Arkadiy Kurta, has joined MaximImages. We are proud to represent his beautiful, thought provoking, fine art nude and portrait photography.




Arkadiy Kurta contributor's profile page

You can see Arkadiy's portfolio here: Arkadiy Kurta photography at MaximImages

If you are new to image licensing, the licensing terms and the whole licensing process in the beginning may seem to be a little complicated and confusing, especially when it comes to Rights Managed imagery.

We have wrote this simple Image Licensing Guide to make the entire process, from selecting the right license terms, purchasing and downloading an image, and to keeping a track of your licenses a breeze.

MaximImages Licensing Guide

If you are publishing a book or writing an editorial article related to Qi Gong, Nei Gong, meditation, mindfulness and energy cultivation, be sure to check our beautiful collection of artistic conceptual imagery related to internal arts and meditation.





A meditation app developed by MaximImages that will help you on your path of Nei Gong and meditation, especially if you are in the beginning of your internal journey.

Here be the Dragons! Inspired directly by the pulsing Draconian current, fire dragons found their artistic form through the medium of ink and brush on a series of our new sumi-e paintings and designs. A powerful symbol of the ascended primordial serpent, dragons typify the evolutionary potential of a man, for when this power rises to the center of the awakened consciousness, it sets everything ablaze, so that the old world and the old Self may perish, be transformed and finally rebuilt anew.



As a balancing force to pacify the unquenchable draconian flames, you will find a series of paintings inspired by the gentler forces of nature. Either soft and delicate or burgeoning and abundant, the cherry blossoms represent the fleeting beauty, life, death, and renewal ever present in the natural world.


A series of meditative Zen bamboo paintings and designs are infused with the spirit of stillness and minimalism. We hope you find a visual delight in our new additions. Enjoy!

After being a private collection of commercially available photographs for 7 years, MaximImages is opening its doors to new contributors.

We are very happy to extend this offer to all artists, photographers, illustrators who want to license their images commercially online and make their work easily available to publishers, advertising agencies, editors and designers.

We are looking for unique perspectives, tasteful art direction and execution, original and inspiring ideas. All those beautiful images you have created and which are just sitting on your hard drive or just being a part of your portfolio, whether commercial or personal projects, we want to see them.

Or maybe you already tried to license your images online but got discouraged by extremely unfair commissions, ridiculously low prices that cannot justify even the time expenses, high subscription costs, copyright grabs or questionable contracts? There are no costs for you to have your images with us. We share the income from sales and we are only interested in a mutually beneficial, fair and open relationship with our contributors. We offer the best royalty know in the industry and we don't ever plan to change it. While agencies keep lowering photographers' commission to 15-20% from the traditional 50%, We are offering you 60% of sales.

Our goal is to have warm, friendly relations with all our contributors and customers. Our inspiration is to bring the unique, beautifully executed, refined imagery, which is so hard to find nowadays, and even harder to find available for commercial licensing, to our creative publishers and designers. We don't want to join the race for the biggest number of pictures, have the biggest number of sales, and trying to become the largest image supplier. We are doing it purely for the sake of art and the inner artist in all of us.

If you want to become one of our contributors, please read this page Contributing to MaximImages, and let us know once you are ready to send us your first submission. As for the subjects we are looking for? That's a good question, we are looking for all subjects, but we want them to be tastefully done with an artistic approach. Natural, casual, suggestive, controversial, creative, unusual, sensual, candid, inspirational, just keep them coming, we'd like to see them all. Not all will make it into our archive but we give them a fair chance.

It doesn't matter to us if you are a professional or a hobbyist, if you are from the US, Canada, Europe, Russia, Asia or anywhere in the world. Even if you cannot communicate in English and write your image titles and keywords, we extend our invitation to you and we will help you to get your images seen and your vision and talent recognized at no cost to you.

Thank you for bringing the beauty and inspiration to all of us!

Alex and Veronika Maxim
MaximImages

We are saying a warm welcome to Dmitry Bugaenko, an amazing photographer from Moscow, Russia who has just joined MaximImages.

Check his amazing sensual and erotic photography collection in his Portfolio