1. Face Off

Paul Festa/published by nerve.com October 2000

.... Pornography was once again on my mind some months later at a cocktail reception, in an excruciatingly swank part of town, where all the guests had one thing in common: At various times, each of us had shown up at this same apartment, stripped off our clothes, and masturbated in front of our host Frank Yamrus, a photographer.

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©2000 Paul Festa and Nerve.com, Inc.

2. The Portrait Series - Rapture

Interview with Frank Yamrus by Rhonda Wilson as printed in the March 2001 issue of Profitfoto Magazine

What does euphoria feel like and how do you reflect this emotion in a photograph? Frank Yamrus, a fine art photographer living in San Francisco, is inspired by his own experiences of life and the questions posed by his relationships around the nature of desire. His latest body of work, The Portrait Series Rapture, pushes his curiosity to a place in his living room, which became a safe space for exploration by friends. Of an intimate and sexual nature, these acts of trust have been transposed into a set of images, which inspire, provoke and raise many questions around our preconceptions of how love, passion and emotion can be translated into a photographic print and still contain that essence of the moment. that moment...

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©2001Rhonda Wilson, Frank Yamrus, Profifoto