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Revealing by concealing | June 22, 2015

In two separate portrait sessions, I stumbled on shots where my subjects, in this case Tracey Erin Smith and Goni Alter, had their heads turned away from me, and in both cases I went ahead and snapped the shot. It is the moment just before they turn their gaze back to the camera for the next shot. On the face of things (pun! I love puns!) this pose goes against the purpose of portraiture. The latter is an act of disclosure. It is meant to reveal more of the subject. Here we have both subjects faces mostly hidden. But to me, it seems that we get to experience quite literally another intriguing side.