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Ray Max. Ex-lion Tamer. Now based in Rome. These are a few of the photographs I take.
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All photos ©RayMax unless noted
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“Preliminary Investigations Beyond All Expectations”
Fragment from a work in progress project with @_evagrieco_ (IG) and @gianluca_natanti (IG)
Contemporary dance and live electronic music based on the Sei Indagini Impossibili record.
#dance #music #perfomance #experimental #multimedia
©RayMax
Grainy black and white image of a dancer captured mid-movement with arms raised. A light band on the left side and an interplay of diagonal lines add an abstract geometric element. ©RayMax
February 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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_Wolf.Child_ at my old place in Harlem, NY

#natural #beauty #film #melanin #filmphotography #believeinfilm
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"Black and white photo of a Black woman with natural, voluminous hair, kneeling on a bed with both arms stretched forward and their fingers spread on the sheets. The lighting natural, the woman's gaze is directed slightly upwards"
February 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I hear it’s #fishnetfriday. My friend D. in Manhattan would be delighted to participate. A mesh top and fishnets is her preferred attire for a quiet day at home.
©RayMax

#encounters #textures #film #photography #callofthewest #RayMax
A close-up black and white analog image shows a pair of female feet wearing delicate fishnet stockings. The feet are resting on a dark, textured, velvety surface. ©RayMax
January 30, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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A person with long blond hair and a dark cloak stands before a stone archway with a glowing sun-like circle inside. A scene from Kenneth Anger's film, Lucifer Rising (1972) featuring Marianne Faithfull
February 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Cover of Marianne Faithfull autobiography, Faithfull
January 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Ex tenebris Licisca.
Fresh scans of lost and found film negatives, shot for my first artbook, Folie à deux.
A few numbered copies are still available, message me for details if interested.

#folieàdeux #licisca #artbook #believeinfilm #callofthewest #RayMax
Black and white photo of Licisca emerging from the water of the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the Tuscany coast. It's night, Full Moon a small dot in the distance. From the darkness only her face and shoulders are visible, while she is swimming in the water. Licisca is staring at something above, apparently ecstatic
January 26, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Waiting for the hurricane with T. in Brooklyn
#thatgarden #encounters #photography #artnude #filmphoto
©RayMax
A nude woman stands behind the trapdoor in a garden with a wall covered by green ivy. Her curly red hair frames her face, her hands are raised
February 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Henry Rollins in Rome at Disfunzioni Musicali.
Found again slide from a past life in the last century.
©RayMax

#photography #music #portrait #filmismotdead and #punkisnotdead either
Colour photo of musician, writer, actor and radio host, Henry Rollins inside a record store in the early 1990. A pensive Rollins is on the left side of the frame. On the opposite side a TV displays an image of Rollins performing a military-style salute. ©RayMax
January 19, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Leksi, one afternoon in Brooklyn, and a cracked skylight.

From my set published in Hylasmag.
You can see more images from this shoot and support my projects at my Patreon.
Don't miss checking Leksi's artwork and designs
#aleksandrakolanko (on IG)

©RayMax
January 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Juicy Fruit

#OneFlewOvertheCuckoo’sNest
#film
Close-up of two persons’ hands exchanging a chewing gum with a yellow wrap. Frame from the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Miloš Forman, 1975. Based on the Ken Kesey novel
January 14, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Snow day in Brooklyn with Lynsey.

More images from that set at my Patreon
www.patreon.com/c/callofthew.... Film is horribly expensive, and your support to my photography projects is deeply appreciated
©RayMax

#encounters #photography #believeinfilm #classyartnude #filmphotography
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Fateful encounter with a solitary bird.

One year ago in Mani.

#birdofparadise #photooftheday #believeinfilm #travel #greece #callofthewest #RayMax
Colour analogue photo of a bird of paradise in front of the entrance of an old rural house in Mani, Greece. Stones, grape vines, orange flower, pale blue house and door.
January 15, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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Janus. "Beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings."
Happy New Year to you!
(Double exposure Polaroid of Melanie. Somewhere in the Blue Ridge Foothills, North Carolina )

#double #beauty #believeinfilm #photography #callofthewest

©RayMax
One possible description of this black and white Polaroid image, showing some ink smudges: "The image presents two black-and-white portraits of a topless woman with a long ponytail. She wears a strappy leather collar and a similar harness that accentuate the figure. The left side shows her with arms raised, exuding confidence though her wrists might be tied. The right side captures a more reflective moment, hands resting on her chest and body."
January 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"En attendant la dernière nuit d'une année foutu, mais à la fin c'est la vie, n'est-ce pas?
De plus, je feuillette le magnifique numéro 17 du magazine #lebateau.eroticmag
Voici les deux seules photos que je peux vous montrer sur IG 🔥💫 #night #ethiopiques #2020 #merdre "
En attendant la dernière nuit d'une année foutu, mais à la fin c'est la vie, n'est-ce pas? De plus, je feuillette le magnifique numéro 17 du magazine #lebateau.eroticmag Voici les deux seules photos que je peux vous montrer sur IG 🔥💫 #night #ethiopiques #2020 #merdre #callofthewest #RayMax
December 31, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Memories from another place.
#leatherette #film #photography #prints

(More images from that set at my Patreon. Message me for prints)
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Black and white analog photo. In a room with an interesting tiled floor, a visitor, a woman, kneels on a leatherette couch displaying her back and the soles of her bare feet ©RayMax
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Aux Joies de l'Esprit.
Melanie

#lunchpoems #film #poetry #portrait #intimacy #believeinfilm #callofthewest #RayMax
Melanie, seen from above, lays nude across a bed holding a copy of a poetry book above her head. Black and white analogue photo
October 28, 2023 at 10:26 AM
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"Physical poetry" said Isabella during our first photo shoot, in Rome.
Later she recited a Wisława Szymborska poem.

You can find more images from this set at Patreon page, and lend support to my photography projects
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Isabella, physical poetry, dancer, fair skin, Rome, Sun, nude, beauty, stars, legs, finger, feet, hands, photography, believeinfilm, analogue, black and white, callofthewest, RayMax
February 28, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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That first time with Monty in Bushwick, NY.
#encounters #photography #film #portrait #callofthewest
©RayMax
A black and white portrait of Monty, with short dark hair. She is wearing a garment with a fur collar. The lighting is focused on their face, creating shadows on the right side. Her lips are slightly parted. ©RayMax
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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#tbt to my project, Nights Of Yu-Hsun, shot around Rome. Aka Floating Above Two Worlds And Belonging To None.

#sayitwithflowers #believeinfilm #portrait #callofthewest #RayMax
November 2, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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Print test. A Manhattan Autumn afternoon with Melanie.
More images from this set at my Patreon www.patreon.com/callofthewest

#Bookloversoftheworldunite #photography #film
©RayMax
Colour analog photo with light streaks of a nude woman resting peacefully over a pile of books strewn across a floor ©RayMax
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Anna one October afternoon in Warsaw
Colour photo of a nude woman sitting on a wooden chair, set against a dark curtain background. Her knees are drawn to the chest, bare feet are clasped in her hands. ©RayMax
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Welcoming the arrival of Autumn in Rome with an image from one of my favourite Warsaw shoots, and a touch of #silver
#portrait #shadow #touch #woman #dancer #intimate #topless #hands #hair #film #argentique #callofthewest #RayMax
October 5, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Sunset above Central Park with Melanie
©RayMax
#free #photography #free #photography #nude #film #analog #believeinfilm #portrait #callofthewest
Color photo of Melanie reclining nude on a rooftop in the warm sunset light, with a hint of Manhattan skyline in the background. She looks towards the viewer, her long hair is flowing
April 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Action de grâce.
flauer_in_de_san in the pinewoods and in the sand
(With a million hungry mosquitoes, too)
From a series you can find at my Patreon.

#tbt #rituals #woods #sea
#thanksgiving #beauty #believeinfilm #flowers #callofthewest #RayMax
Flauerindesan is nude on a beach by the pinewoods somewhere in Latium, Italy. Her eyes are closed, head tilted back, a dark flower in her mouth
November 23, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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Dream Home and Heartache

#photography #believeinfilm #filmphoto
©RayMax
A colour photo with rectangular swimming pool under a clear blue sky. In the foreground is a light-colored tiled deck, partially enveloped by a large triangular shadow. Beyond the pool, there is a range of rolling hills covered with dense foliage
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM