On Portraiture

From one of my favorite photographers…

Steve McCurry Curated

Portraits reveal a desire for human connection;

a desire so strong that people who know they will never see me again

open themselves to the camera,  all in the hope that at the other end

someone will be watching,

someone who will laugh or suffer with them.

Kashmir

Yemen

Afghanistan

What could be more simple and more complex,

more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

– Charles Baudelaire

Kashmir

Yemen

Baluchistan, Pakistan

A good portrait is one that says something about the person.

We usually see parts of ourselves in others, so the

good portrait should also say something about the human condition.

Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait.

You have to try to put your camera between the

skin of a person and his shirt.

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

Philippines

Pokhara, Nepal

Lambari, Brazil

Madhya Pradesh, India

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Photography and the genre…

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