These are just three of the many faces of this model. Multiple exposures (in camera) can create a different image. Much like (in the past) when blending slides's. Or when transitioning between two film scenes. This kind of picture's used to be created by not passing the film between two exposures. In modern camera's, the images are combined digitally. This is three portraits here, three times the same face of the same young woman. And that face here expresses different emotions, from dreamy to alert. She looks straight into your soul, or she looks away. You can also see what you want to see. Because all the details are in this photo, taken with a modern mid-format camera.
The photo is the result of a (successful) experiment with the technical possibilities, in collaboration with an expressive model.
The neutral black-and-white tone makes the work neutral and therefore actually fits into any interior. Through the beautiful face and penetrating gaze of the largest portrait, the photo challenges you to look, and interpret for yourself,
Once a photographer, always a photographer? Once upon a time I disbanded my darkroom, but in the digital age I have re-entered it. I try to take beautiful photos, which I sometimes enrich through image editing... Read more…