LocationCape Town, South Africa
Member SinceOctober 02, 2018
Black Wolf
Eric Uys is a photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. Under the artist name of Black Wolf, he focuses on creating emotive, sensual, and contemplative nude photographs.
Through Black Wolf’s images, he highlights the curves naturally found in the naked female body. Furthermore, he also showcases the curvilinear attributes within the composition as well. One of the favorite storylines he likes to convey in his images is one of rebirth—like the phoenix rising from the ashes. He achieves this by displaying the beauty, the sexiness, and the femininity of a broken and wounded woman. And, as the photo shoot progresses the model’s transformation is apparent in each frame and the ending image is one of pure joy.
Art that makes him think, art where he must actively guess how the result was achieved attracts and inspires him. His work under Black Wolf finds greatly influence from the masters from past artistic movements such as Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer and other similar great European portrait artists. Furthermore, he looks at the images created by American fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon, American visual artist Man Ray, Australian-German fashion photographer Helmut Newton, and American-German fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld for inspiration. Additionally, fellow contemporary photographers like Erwin Olaf and Steven Meisel influence his practice as well. He is also a big fan of surrealism and often looks at the work of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, Spanish draftsman Salvador Dali, and Belgian artist René Magritte to get inspired.
Since a young age, Eric Uys had an interest in art while growing up in South Africa. At eight years old, he entered his first coloring competition and won a Donkey Kong Nintendo handheld game console. Then in 1992, while he was in high school, he decided to pursue a future career in art. He began focusing seriously on how shapes and lights interacted with each other. At this time, he also experimented with color combinations and oil paints. Furthermore, he tried graphic art as a secondary medium of art.
While developing his art practice, Eric Uys worked with a variety of mediums such as pencil, charcoal, linocut prints, pastels, acid etching, and block printing before settling on photography. After high school, he went on to receive tertiary education, completing an apprenticeship under the guidance of renowned fashion photographers. Ever since 2002, he has been a professional photographer and worked in a variety of commissions. Furthermore, over the years he acquired experience in a wide range of photographic genres such as portraiture, corporate, commercial, nude, fashion, and weddings. Black Wolf’s work exhibited in various group exhibitions in Cape Town. Furthermore, he continuously publishes his nude photographs in his own publication, SHEWOLF.
Eric Uys continues to produce conceptual and fine art nudes under the creative name of Black Wolf.
Through Black Wolf’s images, he highlights the curves naturally found in the naked female body. Furthermore, he also showcases the curvilinear attributes within the composition as well. One of the favorite storylines he likes to convey in his images is one of rebirth—like the phoenix rising from the ashes. He achieves this by displaying the beauty, the sexiness, and the femininity of a broken and wounded woman. And, as the photo shoot progresses the model’s transformation is apparent in each frame and the ending image is one of pure joy.
Art that makes him think, art where he must actively guess how the result was achieved attracts and inspires him. His work under Black Wolf finds greatly influence from the masters from past artistic movements such as Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer and other similar great European portrait artists. Furthermore, he looks at the images created by American fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon, American visual artist Man Ray, Australian-German fashion photographer Helmut Newton, and American-German fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld for inspiration. Additionally, fellow contemporary photographers like Erwin Olaf and Steven Meisel influence his practice as well. He is also a big fan of surrealism and often looks at the work of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, Spanish draftsman Salvador Dali, and Belgian artist René Magritte to get inspired.
Since a young age, Eric Uys had an interest in art while growing up in South Africa. At eight years old, he entered his first coloring competition and won a Donkey Kong Nintendo handheld game console. Then in 1992, while he was in high school, he decided to pursue a future career in art. He began focusing seriously on how shapes and lights interacted with each other. At this time, he also experimented with color combinations and oil paints. Furthermore, he tried graphic art as a secondary medium of art.
While developing his art practice, Eric Uys worked with a variety of mediums such as pencil, charcoal, linocut prints, pastels, acid etching, and block printing before settling on photography. After high school, he went on to receive tertiary education, completing an apprenticeship under the guidance of renowned fashion photographers. Ever since 2002, he has been a professional photographer and worked in a variety of commissions. Furthermore, over the years he acquired experience in a wide range of photographic genres such as portraiture, corporate, commercial, nude, fashion, and weddings. Black Wolf’s work exhibited in various group exhibitions in Cape Town. Furthermore, he continuously publishes his nude photographs in his own publication, SHEWOLF.
Eric Uys continues to produce conceptual and fine art nudes under the creative name of Black Wolf.
Art of the body - 2009 - Woodstock, Cape Town
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