About the «Forbidden Gaze»:

In order to promote quality male artistic nudes – that seem to be hiding away within our site, the purpose of this contest is to bring fun with a touch of historicity to our deviants. It is known that (not only) in the occidental side of the world the male nudes were forbidden to be gazed by women – therefore it was even more forbidden for the female gender to make art depicting a male nude.


The idea here is to bring more quality male nudes to the Artistic Nudes gallery while being concerned about Art & History in its concept: The contest submitters are asked to make one photo/portrait containing at least one male nude; this way depicting the forbidden gaze itself.


There are many open areas around this concept of forbidden gaze.
You can interpret it within your likings: you can make a time travel and compose it classic, like Greek statues poses or even to the future and build a whole futurist scenery where women are still forbidden to gaze at the male nude; you can make it expressive, emotive, spontaneous, humoristic, conceptual, etc…


Whatever you do make sure you give your imagination the freedom that is necessary to respond to this challenging contest presenting us with an Original & Quality artwork!

When & What to do?

Start Date: 24 March
End Date: 1 June

Disclaimer: We won’t accept deviations posted before the start date neither after the end date!



make one photo containing at least one MALE NUDE depicting your interpretation of the forbidden gaze;


submit ONLY it to: contests & projects -> contests -> 2008 -> forbidden gaze contest

* in the submission process instead of photography look for "contests and projects" use the scroll bar to see it and just follow that path I gave you


only ONE deviation per member, so choose wisely which one to upload and please remember this is Photography only!

That's right, Doc!, but what's in it for me?

P R I Z E S


Meet deviantART’s delicious prizes:

WINNER: 1 year sub + Fella Plushie

RUNNER-UP: 6 month sub + mug

PEOPLE’S CHOICE: 3 month sub + print



And MORE awesome prizes, collected from the donations of the amazing and loving deviantARTcommunity:

Winner will get:

Journal Features from:
=breathe-survival *phydeau `Tepara ^feawen =Anglinagirl ~KitCatTurner =ShwarzEngel ~titanic-jb =hellmet =Elorine ^Nicasus ~eschlehahn =synconi ^DCZed =eXcer =piratephotography (and also her other accounts: *closemyeyes-stock and ~iheartpirates ) `RockstarVanity ^JunkbyJen =feetpeet ~EatMyDreams `Illusio-5 *toiabates ~vgaer and mine: ^Helewidis

#update1: the grand-winner will also receive journal features from *The100DProject this is equal to receiving journal features in almost 100 deviant's journals!

_{Note: this list will probably grow-up while the contest is running}

Stamp by: ~EatMyDreams
CSS (design only) by: `Illusio-5
CSS (coding-only) by: ^DCZed
dA’s Keychain from: *vahid-naziri
On-screen artwork by: ^DCZed
Secret Stuff by: =Cribby (it’s really a surprise, even for me – which only makes it more interesting!)
Print by&from: =piratephotography and *toiabates
Subscriptions: 1 year from =nice2mice + 3 months from =stormyblueyz

Runner-up will get:

Journal Features from:
=breathe-survival *phydeau `Tepara ^feawen =Anglinagirl ~KitCatTurner =ShwarzEngel ~titanic-jb =hellmet =Elorine ^Nicasus ~eschlehahn =synconi ^DCZed =eXcer =piratephotography (and also her other accounts: *closemyeyes-stock and ~iheartpirates ) `RockstarVanity ^JunkbyJen =feetpeet ~EatMyDreams `Illusio-5 *toiabates ~vgaer and mine: ^Helewidis
_{Note: this list will probably grow-up while the contest is running}

Stamp by: ^Sophquest
CSS (design only) by: *IsabelS
dA’s Keychain from: =feetpeet
Secret Stuff by: *Mollinda (it’s really a surprise, even for me – which only makes it more interesting!)
Subscriptions: 1 year from ^Nicasus + 3 months from =hellmet
Print by&from: ^JunkbyJen (up to $10)

People’s Choice will get:

Journal Features from:
=breathe-survival *phydeau `Tepara ^feawen =Anglinagirl ~KitCatTurner =ShwarzEngel ~titanic-jb =hellmet =Elorine ^Nicasus ~eschlehahn =synconi ^DCZed =eXcer =piratephotography (and also her other accounts: *closemyeyes-stock and ~iheartpirates ) `RockstarVanity ^JunkbyJen =feetpeet ~EatMyDreams `Illusio-5 *toiabates ~vgaer and mine: ^Helewidis
_{Note: this list will probably grow-up while the contest is running}

Css (design only) by *toiabates
dA stickers from: ^JunkbyJen
Subscriptions: 1 month from ^JunkbyJen + 3 months from `Tepara + 3 months from =ShwarzEngel
Print by&from: `Tepara



There is a surprise-bonus for the female photographers, since this contest is also to bring awareness of the existence of female artists within our community!!!

The Beloved Jury:

From the Artist Relations Team:


and our special guests, from the Artistic Nude community:
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So, will you enter it?

Please spread this news article and/or the stamp! Any questions/doubts I'm available by note!



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