By Melissa Perazna
From Melissa Perazna — Colombian-born photographer, poet, and visual storyteller with over 600,000 Instagram followers and a body of work that has appeared in L'Officiel, Maxim, and Playboy, shot campaigns for Versace, and earned a billboard in Times Square. She began with a film camera her father handed down from her grandfather when she was fifteen and carried that camera and those dreams across borders to build a career as one of Instagram's most distinctive voices in sensual portraiture. "Bonjour Baby" is her debut book.
The full title is "Bonjour Baby: Broken Hearts, Blurry Photos, and Sex."
This is not a poetry collection that happens to include some images, nor a photography book with captions. It is something more integrated and more rare: a visual-literary work in which Perazna's photographs and poems are two expressions of the same artistic voice, made by the same hands, from the same interior landscape. Love as seen through the soft focus of desire and the sharp clarity of los
