Living Room
My personal photographic work over the past two years has been night time urban landscapes. No people. But they’ve started to creep in, and that is part of the reason I felt it was time to embark on a portrait project. To follow the scent of that trail.
I’ve always liked the stolen shot, the one where the subject doesn’t know I’m taking it. It lends itself to showing a moment that is unaltered by the presence of the camera – unselfconscious and genuine.
The most compelling kind of beauty is that which has a strong dose of the unintentional. My challenge in this project was to try and bring something of that aesthetic into a situation wherein the subject knows I’m there – to explore the tension between what is posed and what is real.
Asides from that, all I’d like to point out is that these are all shot in dim, ambient light of my living room.