Portrait · 2026
Posing on a chair
One chair, one colour, and a studio afternoon spent finding the angle that worked.
- Location
- Bonnington Works
- Year
- 2026
- Commission
- Editorial commission
About this series
The brief was a single prop and a single colour. That sounds restrictive until you realise a chair gives somebody something to do with their hands, their weight and their attention, which is most of what makes a portrait difficult.
We shot for three hours and used about eight minutes of it. The rest was talking, moving the light a hand-width at a time, and waiting for the moment the pose stopped looking like a pose.
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