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Multiple clients: Faces that hold the frame.
Multiple clients· Photography · Portrait · 2023

Faces that hold the frame.

Portrait photography across campaigns, editorial and corporate commissions: athletes, executives, drivers, doctors. People, mostly.

The frames

Selected frames from the commission.

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Faces that hold the frame. 2
Faces that hold the frame. 3
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The brief.

Every commission in this collection had the same hidden brief: make someone who is not a model look like the photograph was their idea.

The idea.

The portrait starts before the camera does, in the conversation that lets the guard down. The light is built around the person, never the reverse.

The craft.

Studio and environmental portraiture, from clean corporate sets to smoke, chain-link and desert light.

Direction for non-models: short sessions, real expressions, no catalogue stiffness.

The result.

A portrait practice that runs through every campaign the studio shoots: faces clients keep using long after the campaign ends.

Credits

Photography
HARDLIGHT
Retouch
HARDLIGHT

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