Show Me Now, Teach Me Never #1 Photograph - Limited Edition of 15

I met Jackie for one of my first "on the road" projects. To be totally honest, my inexperience at this point was as high as my naive enthusiasm. I bought a plane ticket from Paris to Cape Town, and only once landing there, realized I should probably have organized meetings with model agencies a long time before even buying the tickets. Naivety sometimes pays though, at least I was lucky enough then to say that now. Minutes after checking in the hotel, I spent straight up about half an hour in my room to go through all the main agencies websites, gather a quick book of my first shooting trips, and walked across the city directly to the agency I liked most. I knocked on the door, explained on the intercom my proposal, and here I was, going through impressive barbed fences and walking up stairs to meet the agency director. Two days later, Jackie appeared, a tall and easygoing beauty, moving gracefully, laughing easily, and with a little dreamlike glance. While driving down from Cape Town to Cape of Good Hope, her soft eyes were constantly sweeping at the world around us, easily amazed by a beautiful landscape here, the crossing of an ostrich there, and sharing with me the same joy of an extraordinary encounter with Cape Penguins in Boulder Beach. When shooting these projects, I never ask my models to « be » or « do » anything. I simply manage to create a space where they can be themselves, and photos after photos, feel more and more confident about their inner and outer beauty. A space where they feel free to express, free to behave, happy to be. Shot at the end of the day, this portrait shows a dreamy side of Jackie, a little glimpse of her inner world. Her perfect profile and her dreamy gaze are gently lit by early dusk light, when the sun has barely disappeared behind the horizon, and all that remains is a peaceful feeling of having had a full on beautiful day. Printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Photo Rag Baryta 315 gr Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Photography:Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:15

Size:32.3 W x 43.3 H x 0.1 D in

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