Sitters, Vol. I

A winter of one-lamp portraits — strangers who answered an open call and stayed longer than they planned.

Portraits

Nocturne portrait 01a
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Every sitting in this series ran the same way: one lamp, a black backdrop, and no direction beyond a chair. The first twenty minutes belong to the pose people brought with them. The frame I keep is always from the last ten, after the performing runs out.

Printed at 60×90 on matte baryta, the blacks holding just enough grain to feel like paper instead of screen.

Nocturne portrait 01b
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