Opinion

AN X-RAYTED LOOK AT LIFE

For 15 years British photographer Nick Veasey has gotten under a lot of people’s skin – but that’s a good thing.

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The 46-year-old artist, who has just been short-listed for a Lucie award, the equivalent of an Oscar in photography, has been using an X-ray machine to uncover the hidden beauty of organic and inanimate objects.

From the sensual lines of a rose petal or the internal complexity of a simple hair dryer, or a box containing Jimmy

Choo shoes, even an electric chair, Veasey images often belie the external shape and color. He’s tackled larger projects too, including a 757 Boeing jet using 500 separate X-rays of individual elements.

Veasey, who lives in Kent, England and owns four X-ray machines, uses night-vision goggles and, yes, lead underpants whenever he’s shooting.

“I didn’t realize there was a career in this,” he said while in New York, where he’s a finalist for International Photographer of the Year and will be attending the awards ceremony at Lincoln Center on Tuesday. “I was shooting an X-ray of a Pepsi can for a commercial and I also shot my shoes. When I happened to show a client the shoes, they loved it.”

Veasey’s work is being displayed at the Millenia Fine Arts Gallery at the Time Warner building. See more of his pictures at nypost.com.