Pete Saloutos Releases Calendar to Support Breast Cancer Research
Pete Saloutos of Bainbridge Island, Wash., recently released a calendar for 2008 featuring Lisa Lund and 11 other models to support those with breast cancer and the research for its cure. Visit petesaloutos.com to view the entire calendar, and e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to purchase.
Pete Saloutos: Underwater Ballet
Water is the source of our being and the thread that ties all life together. What better medium, then, with which to illustrate a new life as it is beginning? For Puget Sound-area photographer Pete Saloutos, images of pregnancy and water were a natural fit.
"I had done a series of pregnant nudes, and I thought this might be an interesting thing to do," Saloutos says of his untitled underwater creation (top, right). A talent agency found a model who was heavily pregnant and willing to pose. "The other one was a friend she invited along for the shoot," he says.
Shot last summer, using natural outdoor light and some silver cards, the pregnant nude study was, for Saloutos, a relatively simple underwater...