A Bare Portrait

Our consumption of images today has been hugely effected by social media. It has dramatically changed the type of images that we see and share, particularly of ourselves. If imagery is an international language, those images should be honest and true.

Capturing raw and personal portraits of people without any filters, hair, poses, expressions, makeup or styling which has become common. Removing those layers was a discovery in capturing bare and honest portraits

Portraiture is a complex collaboration between subject and camera. As a photographer there is always a deal to be struck. What you want to express and what the subject is willing to give away.

On a scale of happiness, 100 being the happiest, 1 the worst. What number describes you in this moment?

The portraits allow an audience to witness a true expression of each answer. The courage to show ourselves for who we are in a moment. Even if temporary. Honesty doesn’t differentiate us nor make us weak, it reminds us that there is more that we share in common than separates us.

As we consume nearly all of our images through screens of a sort. The prints we engineered to reflect modern communication. Creating smart lightboxes, no thicker than an ordinary frame. Portable and be self supporting. This way they could be viewed outside of traditional spaces.

Exploring lighting a gallery space, using only the work itself. To envelope an audience in only what was being transmitted from the prints themselves. To witness these portraits communicating their stories.

 The first exhibition was Monday 15th April 2019 at The Green Rooms, London.