They’re named for the historic Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists, poets, and critics whose work drew inspiration from the natural world. Messina, and Kabe Russell are the self-proclaimed Pre-Raphaelite Society. (I know, right? Nudes in Atascadero? Collaborative photographers? What’s happening to America?) Artists Alison Watt Jackson, her husband Dennis Jackson, Michael V. Gee’s porcelain skin and lustrous honey curls can be seen in abundance in the glorious new exhibit Reciprocity, a series of photographic nudes by a collaborative group of local photographers. And there’s such moral judgment there: ‘You take your clothes off for money?’” She laughs. “People ask, ‘So what do you do for a living? ” says Gee, who holds a degree in English from Cal Poly. COMMUNION : Model Katja Gee, pictured, is no stranger to the challenges of outdoor nude photography, admitting, “I always come back from a shoot exhausted and scraped up and bruised.” Not that this seems to bother her.
