This is a portrait of a dancer, Elizabeth Wright, which was taken during the last few days of a studio residency in London, kind of farewell to working in a photographic studio with artificial, strobe lighting, white umbrellas and so on.
Since that time I only worked on location, using available light only– usually daylight. In majority of situations those places were new, previously unknown to me.
My style of work is to focus on a casual atmosphere, which tends to bring out relaxed feeling from subjects. This was and is the normal way I take portraits. It also does make it totally unpredictable, uncontrollable – therefore inspirational and demanding.
Most of the time I am engaged to take portraits of people I have met for the very first time, which makes this special and unusual too.
Maybe that is why Bem Le Hunte wrote to me: “You are such an evocative photographer, with images that are so haunting, conjuring up stories from another time and place”
Bem Le Hunte British-Indian author of “Elephants with Headlights”,"The Seduction of Silence" and "There, Where the Pepper Grows". She is also an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, where she’s the founding director of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.