Composition is the foundation of your image and it settles the story you wish to present.
Never count on software manipulation or cropping to improve your composition. Composition only works when it is part of the original session.
Wherever a photographic session takes place, be it in the corner of a dingy office or in one of the most beautiful gardens, I compose images by including only those elements that are of importance and rejecting any unwanted clutter (visual noise). I am guided in this by the personality of my model, whom I see as the key to the composition within any environment.
For a few, intense months I was photographing young people in Richmond, looking for a mystery of the unknown stirring their hearts.
Later, maybe just a few days later, I would present them with these portraits, magic mirrors, in which they could see their desires and their own youthful, charismatic beauty.
Here is a portrait of Bem La Hunte – who became a writer (“Elephants with Headlights”,"The Seduction of Silence" and "There, Where the Pepper Grows") and an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, where she’s the founding director of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.