Vivienne Mok: "Personal" Photos of Nymphets

Vivienne Mok Photography

I wrote in The Allure of Nymphets and on this blog about photographers and painters of nymphets like Jacques Bourboulon, David Hamilton, Serge Marshennikov, Frank Herholdt, Richard Kern, and Balthus - all of whom are men. However, I was recently introduced to Vivienne Mok - 27-year-old female photographer .

Mok was born in New York and grew up between Paris and Hong Kong, but after she graduated from Manhattan's Parsons School of Design, she took a job as a designer in Paris at the Fashion House of Anne Valerie Hash and subsequently took up photography.

In an interview on the James Robinson Photography blog, Mok was asked, "[...] why the genre of photography you have chosen? Mok replied, "I don’t know if I have chosen this style of photography, it happened quite naturally, I think that it’s something I have in me because it is very personal." 

And in an interview on Les Filles, Mok shared, "I would describe my work as feminine, dreamy, personal." Thus, Mok described her photographs of nude and semi-nude nymphets as "personal", which could mean that the true meaning behind her photographs is private. 

Photographer Vivienne Mok

Serge Marshennikov: Russian Figurative Painter of Nude [Teen] Nymphets

In the spirit of Balthus, Serge Marshennikov [Сергей Маршенников] is a 42-year-old Russian figurative painter of nymphets. According to the website Tutt 'Art, Marshennikov graduated from Ufa Art College, attended the prestigious Repin Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Russia, and did distinguished post-graduate work at the studio of Professor Milnikov.

The Hallmark Gallery website shared that Marshennikov's first solo exhibition was in 1995 at the Sangat gallery in Ufa Art College. Subsequently, he has had solo exhibitions at prestigious art galleries in a number of universities in Russia, his works have been up for auction at Christie’s of London and Bonham's in Knightsbridge, his paintings are on display at the El Paso Museum of Modern Art and the The Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, and his paintings of nude nymphets are in private collections in Russia, England, Denmark, France and Japan.

Thus far, there has been no controversy surrounding Marshennikov work; thus, in the opinion of art aficionados, his works fall on the side of art in the art versus (soft-core) pornography debate.