Photographer Nick Karras has composed images with an unusual visual and emotional sensitively.  The documentary follows his intimate journey as he produces a book of artful photographs.  His subtle black and white photographs discover the delicate beauty in the infinite variety of female genitals, inspiring a profound sense of wonder and awe.  Quite different from conventional sexual expectations, the film is continually revealing.  Unforgettable women became his guides and teachers - Betty Dodson, the legendary leader pioneer of women's sexual liberation; Linda Savage, Ph.D., a published cultural anthropologist; Ina Laughing Winds, a teacher of shamanic sexual traditions; Sarah Mundy, a young woman with a website dedicated to the glories of the vagina, and many other dynamic women.  They joined him in confronting both the current fears and timeless beauty found in a woman's most basic sexual nature.  

Nick Karras has brought a refined aesthetic sensibility to the forty-eight black & white photographs of the most sacred part of a woman's body.  The female form has been forever the subject of the visual arts of sculpture and painting.  Photography brings the hard challenges of realism.  Karras achieves an exquisite balance between an expression of art and the natural delicacy of a woman's vulva.

An informative interview with Nick Karras explains and details the personal issues and artful choices he faced in the personal struggle to achieve the radically simple intention of his photography.

Get a copy of the original gorgeous hard-cover collector's book PETALS (with a DVD insert), or equally beautiful E-Book version with updated forward by Beck Peacock.  The E-book and video may be purchased separately, however, the two productions are complimentary, revealing the sexual nature and exploring the cultural impact of its subject.  Thus, we encourage you to consider purchasing both.

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