Conventional portrait sittings prioritize immediate performance and direct eye contact. This series works against that urgency, allowing thirty minutes of unrecorded conversation before introducing the lens to capture genuine relaxation in shoulder line and neck.
Natural overcast daylight through frosted industrial windows defines the edge transitions without fill cards or artificial diffusion. The resulting medium format frames preserve subtle hand tensions, averted glances, and unvarnished skin texture.
Six Frame Study
Sequential contact selections examining posture, hands, and natural profile transitions under single-source window illumination.
Coastline Studies
Continue to Project 03: an environmental survey of coastal light and marine terrain along the northern Pacific edge.