Projects / Portrait

Silhouettes

Bodies against the light, reduced to an outline. What is left of a portrait once you take the face away.

Client Contrejour Review

Year 2023

Location Studio, Strasbourg

Shot on Nikon FM2 — Kodak Tri-X 400

grayscale photogaphy of man sitting on concrete bench — Photo : Matthew Henry / Unsplash

man walking on white surface — Photo : Vasily Koloda / Unsplash

A pregnant woman in silhouette holding her belly against a bright white background — Photo : 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič / Unsplash

Déjà Vu — Photo : ÉMILE SÉGUIN 🧩🧩🧩 / Unsplash

Is a portrait without a face still a portrait? The series started as a constraint on a commission — a client who wanted nobody identifiable — and carried on long after the work was delivered.

Every frame is a single exposure. No outline has been retouched.