What is a portrait?

This is the third portrait I made for the foto techniek “3 portraits of one person” series. Some of my friends in class did not feel that this is a portrait at all – but in the context of the assignment and together with the two others it was accepted. It’s sometimes hard to define what makes a portrait a portrait – we’ve been quite busy approaching this problem from the other side, with our “how not to make a portrait” assignments – and anyway, are strict definitions necessary?

Portrait of Marloes

For Foto Techniek; one of 3 portraits about the same person. This is Marloes at her student house.

I was kinda happy with how this turned out.

Imitating Elina Brotherus

Our assignment was to imitate a photograph; first analyze it, then reproduce it. This is my imitation of Elina Brotherus’ photo called “I Hate Sex”. Took me three photoshoots to get it this close…