The Art of Portraiture

While I am doing my portrait assignments this week – which are set-up and posed -, I thought of a sentence that one of the lecturers said in one of the last few lectures. He was commenting on it being not necessary to set up scenes or stage events due to the wealth of unstaged situations around in “real life”.

This resonates well with my own thinking on set-up/staged scenes versus the livelihood and beauty of uncertainty of daily life and unstaged peculiarities of human interaction.

On the other hand, doing these portrait assignments this week I started to enjoy it more and more… There is, however, still some way to go to get to Leibovitz, Platon, Rankin, Bailey & Co. :-)