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ARCHIVE / ENTRY / 07

AFTERIMAGE

Seven close portraits use hard light, soft focus and botanical shadows to let one face appear, dissolve and return.

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ENTRY 07 / 07 FRAMESSCROLL

ARCHIVE ENTRY / 07

LIGHT
AND MEMORY

Across seven close portraits, a face moves in and out of focus as hands, flowers and projected leaves interrupt the frame. What remains is less a likeness than the trace of one.

Soft-focus black-and-white portrait of a person with an irregular band of light crossing their face.

Close black-and-white portrait of a person with bare shoulders looking directly at the camera from deep shadow.
Dark black-and-white portrait of a person looking downward between blurred foreground shapes.

Close black-and-white portrait of a person with hands framing their face beneath a narrow beam of light.

Frontal black-and-white portrait of a person with a leaf-like shadow projected across their face.
Black-and-white side portrait of a person with eyes closed holding a flower beside their face.

Black-and-white view of a person's bare back crossed by leaf shadows beside pointed foliage.