Every face is a poem. Every is in its own genre: from tender haiku to love lyrics to this stridently ironic ones, that catch you with humour and strike suddenly with depth, right to your heart. I am fascinated by faces, obsessed with them.
But a face comes with its owner and that is the main reason I get fascinated with people too. It's always a complicated interplay between the geometry of a face, its owner personalty and the story I try to tell with the pictures. I could never say what goes first... Sometimes I see a person and it's as if I recognise him or her from some long forgotten dream; sometimes it's the mimic and emotional pallet that fits into my idea like an actor fits into a role; and sometimes, very rarely, I first get to know a person and then craft a story to show her or him, seen with my eyes.
I never do standard portrait sittings, but create a theatrical act that will allow a model to open up and show a part of his/her inner self. I tease and provoke until the person becomes real and alive in front of my camera, until the poem of the face starts to sound loudly and clearly.
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Marion Hofer for Seven Wonders @Institute Magazine
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Cedric Duchene for Icarus @Institute Magazine
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Aileen X for The Last Snow
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Joan Yu for Far Away @FA Concept Magazine
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Nita Tairi for Flowers.... @Girlys Magazine