About Allure+Desire  

Τ says:
"I felt the urge to write a testimonial about these artists, the photographer and the model.

And now, I feel intimidated. Their photostream is such a perfect example. Every photo is beautiful, astonishing, amazing. Their images are just too perfect to be described with words. Or too many words.

I'll just say that I feel honoured and privileged to have been added to the list of people who can boast and brag about being in Allure & Desire's Flickr friends list.

Thank you."

Mark Velasquez Photography TOO says:
"Can't say enough."

kotelover™ says:
"It is a shame that we have never taken the time to look at your photostream. We have been friends for quite a while and in that time we have seen some of your pics but never really taken the time to look at the beauty captured in your entire collection. She is a beautiful mother and model, and he has a terrific eye for capturing the moment of the perfect photo, thanks for sharing your photostream and thanks for being our friend!

Kote and KL"

Apple AAA says:
"No doubt Ben is an outstanding photographer. One of his remarkable skills is the erotic picture. He knows how to create the certain ambiance of allure, which leaves enough fantasy to the viewers. That’s the reason, why he is one of the supporting members of the Museum of Erotic Art. Thank you for joining us. There are a few excellent erotic photographers at Flickr – Ben is my absolute favorite. - Marco"

Greta Van Escher says:
"This morning I was browsing on flickr after viewing some friend's photos of their baby, and somehow I came across yours. I realize I don't know you and I don't have any photos up to share yet, but I really just had to write you.
Your photos were...overwhelming, to say the least. I was overwhelmed by their beauty...your skill. But more than that, much more, I was overwhelmed at the love you and your wife so obviously share and the very extraordinary way it radiates off of you. I am not one to cry easily, and yet, here I sit in tears, simply because of your photos. I viewed them all from the beginning to the end and I feel as if I have just witnessed the unfolding of truly the most beautiful love story, one that can only grow more and more wonderful with time and the birth of your son.
What you have is incredibly special and, from a very deep place, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for sharing with us your photos and your love."

Sander-Martijn says:
"As I was waking up this morning I did what I do every morning. I put water in the kettle for coffee, put on some music and woke up my computer. I always glance at whether there are any urgent emails first and then I go through any photos people posted on flickr through the night. I use flickr as a feedback loop from other photographers but also to keep up with other photographers whose work I respect. I get emails streaming in all day into their own folder "New photos from friends". The emails contain who uploaded along with thumbnails. I generally pass through most emails, the thumbnail being all i need to see, but sometimes something catches my attention and i click on it to see the full version. There are a particular few photographers that I always end up looking at their work. One of those is Allure+Desire. For as long as I can remember he's been taking photos of "The one who stole my solitude" - and only the girl who stole his solitude. Some innocent, some fairly erotic, pretty much all of them great photos. I always click on his photos when they come in. Well this morning I looked in my inbox and the photo showed her quite pregnant. What? How did that happen? I looked back through and on second glance some of the recent photos you could see a hint of it, but most you couldn't tell and I was so overwhelmed I began to cry. They are married and expecting and he is so in love with her and finds her so beautiful and sexy that he wants to take photos of her every day and share them. I just thought she was his girlfriend. The effect it had on me when I realized that I just followed this couple's life for so long, not really thinking about it that seriously and now there are 3 - there's a baby coming and I'm going to watch that too and I've never met them and it's all a little overwhelming for me.

So thank you, you gave me something I can't really explain very well."

piraxtiri says:
"Can't find the right words!

I thought I had seen everything. Till today. I thought I had seen the best photographers around flickr already.
I was wrong.
Today I came over your photostream. Now I know who I think is the best photographer in flickr. At least for my taste and for what I find artistic, color, art, sexy, interesting...

I can't find words to comment all of your pictures.
I should use the same sentence a thousand times to write how much I've liked them (and haven't seen them all!).

So I've prefer to write a testimonial.

Please consider me as your #1 fan.
You are so gifted (and lucky, surrounded with all these beautiful models you have worked with) that you are unique. In inspiration, mind, eye and result. Aesthetically and technically tops!!!

So all I'll have to say in one word, would be:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep offering us this masterpiece work"

seanbladerunner says:
"As if these two shining lights need any more testimonials... but I cannot help myself... I must sing their praises....

If this couple were only interested in simply titillation, they would fail miserably, because there is a spark, a vibrancy in each image that electrifies and challenges one's mind - you cannot look at their images and not *feel* something WAY beyond sensuality. The connection, the love these two share is palpable, tangible on the screen... it is as if they are able to personify their very relationship on film. This combination is not just rare on Flickr, it is rare in *life*.

I often remark how lucky he is to have such a stunning, savvy model (who just happens to be his wife), but his talent in designing the shots, behind the camera, in post-processing are significant and awe-inspiring... she is quite lucky herself to have someone so in love with her that it projects through the digital bits and bytes, augmented by his considerable craft.

For those of us like myself, who might not enjoy such a crackling relationship, we can live vicariously through what they come up with next... and what that is... NEVER fails to *astonish* and amaze! Here's hoping they never stop... sharing each other with us... and bringing a little joy into many lives."

Stox - Ideas Playground says:
"A great taste of the aestheticism and the beautiful creativity in the interpretation multiple of an almost exclusive subject make of Allure + Desire a talented photographer refining his art according to time

To follow!"

frischmilch says:
"i just discovered Allure+Desire and was immediately taken with his clear and bright shots of wonderful women and things. this made my day today and on other days, definitely."

Josean Pablos says:
"I have never got it clear who is Allure and who is Desire, because both of them are desirably alluring. All I can say for sure is that they are one of the most interesting photographer+model couples I have found around there. All the best for them."

Tixu Oty says:
"When a gifted photographer meets an equally talented model...

Every subject has its own codes, its rules, its difficulties and its clichés. The nude doesn't depart from this truth. Maybe even it is more arduous to manage than other styles of photography. Why?

Because more than the others, the photographer has to know how to input emotion to his pictures and, at the same time, he needs to be very attentive not to fall into voyeurism or vulgarity. For the nude art, the ridge is narrower than for other styles like portraits or landscapes... From this point of view Ben's pictures are remarkable in their depth of meaning. His work always finds the exact distance necessary to marry beauty and emotion, and emphasises all the sensuality of his model. Hollows, curves, lines, shadow and light, there is always something to learn as you contemplate his images.

Like those of great photographers, they invite to their contemplation and if ever you are fond of photography, they have incited you *to try* to do the same. Allure+Desire, what a funny name but which rings so right!

Please Ben, go on supplying our admiring eyes!"

Li Gao says:
"I have only recently started to browse through his gallery. There are some amazing works; for example the milk series. Such an wonderful idea and creation! Most photographer would think that's too much of a work, but he pulled it through.

Deff. keep it up, and I will watch you too=)"

judekyle says:
"Ben is a master of light and curves and geometry. I find it impossible to look at his work without being drawn into the lines he captures: it can be the curve of his wife's spine, the circles of water tension that close around a pair of legs in a milk bathtub, the ripples in a head wrap, or even the cross hatch of tiles in the background. Those things get lost in the photos of so many, but in Ben's work they are pronounced. They are used and manipulated with what seems to be joy and courage. Of course, my fascination with Ben's use of shapes ignores the other, more obvious compliment that I now must pay -- Allure + Desire are the perfect team, and the images they make together are remarkable."

PolloPatagonico says:
"I declare myself a fanatic of the eclipses, of the sun, and of moon.
In the amazing work of Ben, I am lucky or the privilege of enjoying almost every day photos with facial or corporal eclipses.
maybe in his previous life, Ben was an astronomer and now it is overturning this knowledge in his photography, welcome!

A special paragraph for his model, it is also a part of the magic of this stream, beauty and sensuality combined in a body language very few times I have seen, they form the perfect team. Allure+Desire."

kriziaa says:
"Althought I've discovered Ben's art not so long ago I became his greatest fan very quickly. It's a pleasure to meet a guy who perfectly shoots females beauty. His photos are full of sensuality, sexuality, shadows and mistery.
If you haven't already seen this great art that Ben creates you should do this immediately!"

largo! says:
"*someone please pass an oxygen tent to me*

After browsing through Ben's photos i must say that i am really excited.
Life is suffering - Buddha was right. But it can also be fantastic, fascinating, beautiful, arousing...

That is what i feel now after seeing the great work."

Withnail1 says:
"A+D creates some of the most beautiful portraits. His nudes are elequent and full of life. His self-shots are strong and inspirational. The images of him and his wife beam with love. It's difficult to view his photos without feeling all of that energy radiate and fill you."

- Kemaha - says:
"Well, Ben certainly lives up to his username but in the most classiest way. His images are highly stylish and the relationship between him and his gorgeous girlfriend is expressed fantastically with every single shot. Not only are they alluring and desirable, they are very intense, playful, tantilising and just brilliant."

Digital Fantastique Studios says:
"I don't think I am qualified to write a testimonial when my opinion can not be weighed with enough photographic experience but having appreciated (and reviewed) other photographers over the years as a writer, I would like to say that since discovering Flickr I have poured over the images by Allure+Desire and have felt overwhelmed and emotionally moved by the power of what this artist has given us.

What sets this work apart from many photographers is the starkly genuine experience presented within the frames of these photos.

There is something a lot like love and deep sensitivity surging beneath the perfectly presented pictures. To my eyes, this is what photography was meant to be used for. This is beauty as it's purest levels and so if perfection and honesty, love and sincerity aren't enough, the photos themselves are wonderfully composed and prepared, and too beautiful for this world.

I feel indebted to this artist for sharing such touching beauty and talent and look forward to more."