P R E S S

The Village Voice
August 12, 2005

Full-Frontal Photo Shoots
by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Putting the real me out there requires setting aside every body image woe and believing, wholeheartedly, that I'm worth photographing, worth having my curvy, imperfect, rounded body captured forever on film.

Delta and Aeric were gentle and supportive, working to maximize my comfort and allowing me breaks to get in the mood. They're used to snapping women, specializing in maternity shots that put Demi Moore's Vanity Fair cover to shame. Delta tells me they're trying to capture a look that says, "Love me, fuck me, I am beautiful, I am yours," and acknowledges that revealing one's erotic self on camera "requires a profound vulnerability and faith."

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Delta Hunter and Aeric Meredith-Goujon met several years ago at a Brooklyn playground (with kids in tow) and discovered a common interest: they both liked taking pictures "of a sensual nature." The pair then founded DA Photography, an erotic-portrait business. Together, Hunter and Meredith-Goujon capture what they refer to as the "divine element" in sexual expression. Their photographs are certainly divine and sexual, but there's also something painterly about the images. Perhaps it has to do with the gradations in color, the depths of expressions, or the fact that the subjects — many of who commissioned the work for a lover or a spouse — are real people, untrained in the art of posing, and they have real bodies. What exactly is the "divine element" in sexual expression? According to Hunter, "it has to do with that four-letter word, love. Because some people define sex and love very narrowly," she explained, "we're trying to show that no matter what — if you're using ropes or your tongue or anything — where there's love present, there's also a divine element."

— Lela Moore
WABC Eyewitness News
February 26, 2004


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New York Sun
December 16, 2003
by Karen Schwartz

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Today, increasing numbers of New York women are eager to document their own pregnancies in a similarly stylish — and sometimes risqué — manner. Over the past year, Brooklyn-based D/A Photography Studios, a collaboration between Pratt-trained photographer Aeric Meredith-Goujon and Southern born Delta Hunter, has been making a name for itself by taking sensual portraits of pregnant women. “We had each been concerned with eroticism and the sensuality of the body in our own work,” Mr. Meredith-Goujon, a 34-year-old father of two, explained. “Maternity photography seemed a natural extension of that. When you think about it, what’s more sexual than pregnancy? It’s the evidence of sex.”

And while women used to cover up their pregnancies in muumuus and overalls, many are now interested in celebrating their pregnant bodies.

“Before I was pregnant, I had a bit of a body image problem,” said Stacy Burnsed, a 31-year-old Brooklyn resident who has worked in restaurants and retail. “But once I started showing, I felt sexier then ever.” To commemorate that feeling, she too posed nude and seminude for photographs taken 11 days before the birth of her son this fall.

“I knew I wanted to have maternity portraits done,” said Ms. Burnsed, who had also never posed for formal pictures before her pregnancy. “But the ones I saw had too much of that soft, angel-in-the-water effect for me."

Then she saw a card for D/A Photography in a neighborhood boutique. “I knew right away I wanted them to take the pictures,” she said. “They captured the strong, sexy side of pregnancy, which was what I wanted.”

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